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Critical illness in the family is one of the main reasons for rural poverty. And low-cost rural service delivery is impossible without the use of appropriate technology. With CARE Foundation and ImpelCARE, it’s now possible to deliver quality healthcare at the remotest village at a low cost. The local-language interface makes the app usable by village women with just a basic level of education.
ImpelCARE is the ideal platform for Rural Healthcare Delivery and Microinsurance. Combining the best of SaaS and Mobile technologies, it represents the frontier of rural healthcare delivery and spans functions from field-level clinical decision supoprt to server-side actuarial reporting.
The insurance-and-healthcare program is administered by Village Health Champions (VHCs) - women from local villages who are familiar with customs and people and have been trained to use its simple local-language interface. Doctors and clinicians use either an English version of the same thing or a deeper web-based SaaS equivalent. Built in conjunction with CARE Foundation and other stakeholders, ImpelCARE leverages technological innovation to provide high-quality healthcare services to patients in remote villages, simultaneously keeping costs low.
AppFAME Winner! Girish Babu, Project Director, CARE Foundation (R) and Kishore Mandyam, PK4 CEO (L) with the AppFAME Certificate and a Netbook awarded by Intel.
The hand-held device helps VHCs track patient info, provide primary healthcare, record vital statistics and deliver health-related products. The built-in Clinical Decision Support System delivers appropriate medical advice, prescriptions and, where it cannot, direction to invoke tele-medicine. The VHC can interact with a remote CARE doctor who can recommend treatment through an SMS prescription. The VHC also collects microinsurance premiums and records them on the hand-held terminal. The online app, on the other hand, supports semi-urban clinic management, electronic medical records, clinical decision support configuration, insurance products and reporting on service delivery and costs.
The app is in Pilot mode in Yavatmal, near Nagpur, Maharashtra. The program will cover 100,000 low-income residents by 2012.
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