Strategies for strengthening usability of data generated by m-health applications
Palestra
About the Event
It is widely recognized that reliable and timely health information is an essential foundation of public health action and health systems strengthening. The advent of information and communication technology (ICT), in particular mobile-based applications (or mhealth), has facilitated large-scale digitization of health information at the point of service delivery.
CLEAR/J-PAL South Asia leverages the experience and work done by researchers in designing and implementing an m-health application to collect high frequency data on routine immunization services in the context of a large-scale randomized evaluation to develop a conceptual framework to assess the design and utility of m-health applications from a data use for decision-making lens. In this session, the speakers will present key learnings from the evaluation and then apply this framework to two government-run applications - ANM-Online and Pregnancy and Infant Cohort Monitoring and Evaluation (PICME) and discuss the challenges and suggestions for strengthening these systems to enhance the quality and usability of the data for decision-making.
CLEAR/J-PAL South Asia leverages the experience and work done by researchers in designing and implementing an m-health application to collect high frequency data on routine immunization services in the context of a large-scale randomized evaluation to develop a conceptual framework to assess the design and utility of m-health applications from a data use for decision-making lens. In this session, the speakers will present key learnings from the evaluation and then apply this framework to two government-run applications - ANM-Online and Pregnancy and Infant Cohort Monitoring and Evaluation (PICME) and discuss the challenges and suggestions for strengthening these systems to enhance the quality and usability of the data for decision-making.
Speakers
| Nome | Título | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Nandini Gupta | Senior Research Manager (Data) | Nandini Gupta currently works as a Senior Research Manager (Data) for J-PAL's IDEA Lab, which aims to encourage the use of administrative data in research. Under this initiative, she is working across multiple states for making better use of health admin data for research and policy decisions. |
| Harini Kannan | Research Scientist | Harini Kannan is a Research Scientist at J-PAL South Asia. She is currently working in New Delhi, India on the Math Games, Learning Camps, Haryana Immunization, and Haryana Education Projects. She also works with the capacity building team providing advisory services for various partners. |