Khushi Baby: Efficacy and impact assessment of novel mobile health solution for vaccination record keeping and camp performance in rural, Udaipurwq

Agency : John Hopkins, USA

The primary objective of Khushi Baby Inc (KB), a not for profit venture, was to improve monitoring of child vaccination by digitizing individual vaccine records with low-cost technology that does not require high-level connectivity. To achieve this objective, KB has designed an NFC (Near Field Communication)-enabled mobile application which simultaneously stores vaccine records on a physical NFC chip and sends them to a cloud-based database. The chip, costing less than $1, was encased in culturally appropriate form factor, a pendant to hang around a baby’s neck.  With KB’s Android application, community health workers can read/update vaccine records on the chips in even the remotest rural areas, and the database will be updated as soon as the phone re-enters an area with internet network (2G/3G/Wi-Fi).  Thus, each baby with a culturally appropriate wearable chip had an easily accessible digital vaccine record and contribute to a database which improved understanding of vaccination rates by health care workers, agencies, and governments.

This simple solution used off-the-shelf technology to keep costs low and offered many advantages to current data collection methods, which rely heavily on manual paper reporting. KB can also standardize reporting functions to make electronic databases easily accessible and allow for sophisticated data analysis and individual record tracking which can inform vaccination interventions.



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