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Smart Health MOTHER (Mobile based maternal Health Awareness)
MOTHER is a mobile based application that provides
automated voice calls in regional languages to the
pregnant and lactating women in rural communities to
raise awareness about pregnancy-related health issues,
or to give personalized advice based on their critical
health parameters.
Frontline workers collects women data manually in the
prescribed registration forms and in the evening, records
are being updated online from the Mandal (block)
Headquarters.
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Once the data is registered, voice alerts are being pushed from the system to stakeholders
(Pregnant and Lactating Women, husbands) mobile phones. MOTHER is unilateral
Communication (Push Method).
Registered women receives customized, pre-recorded health related advices such as what type of care
to be taken in case of high risks during pregnancy, immunization remainders, child care, nutrition, etc. in
local language – Telugu, in their mobiles.
Healthcare Knowledge System for Preventive Health Care
The Health education software is based on knowledge graphs/ concept maps. The web-enabled Health
Care Knowledge System consists of networks of health concepts.
Such initiative is the first of its kind in India to have organized knowledge through hundreds of
knowledge graphs on important health topics along with images for quick understanding of symptoms,
prevention, treatment, knowledge related to Key points to Stay-Healthy, Causes-Symptoms-Healing,
Human Body's Organ Systems, Vitamins, Minerals, Diseases related to Aging, Heart, Rheumatoid,
Allergy, Asthma, Pneumonia, Emphysema, Back Pain, Broken Bones, Burns, Cancer, Children, Eye
Problem, Family Planning, Fever, Malnutrition, Stomach, Liver, Thyroid, Worm, Mental, Poisoning,
Problem by Birth, Serious Sicknesses, Skin, Sexual Contact, Teeth-Gums, Women, Mother, Baby etc.
The software will be deployed on kiosks, web and operational training will be provided to health workers
at various primary health centres that lack adequate health awareness resources.