mPower(Android) Tablet Application
Sep 2013 - Mar 2014 (7 months)
The m-Power Heart Project, supported by the Medtronic Foundation, USA is being implemented in the Solan District of Himachal Pradesh. The project involves three specific activities:- 1) To deploy trained community health workers (CHWs) for improving the access to CVD care at the community level, 2) To integrate software based decision support systems (DSS) to aid physicians and CHWs in practicing evidence based medicine for CVDs/diabetes in order to improve the quality of care. 3) To develop a CVD/diabetes e-learning package for training primary health care professionals aimed at building capacity for high-quality CVD care in India. The project will be operational in 36 sub centres of 4 CHCs, 1 civil hospital and one district hospital. Evid