Information Systems for Sporadic Population Health Outreach Activities in Developing Countries

With majority of population being deprived of quality healthcare because of its inaccessibility and unaffordability, outreach initiatives have been used since a long time to provide healthcare in sporadic fashion. Even though the intent of such "healthcare camps" is to help bring down the burden of disease in the community, the sporadic events mostly fail to deliver many important components of healthcare delivery to an individual because of the absence of linkage between care continuum including promotion of prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment and surveillance. We propose an IT platform that effectively allows linkage between population health and individual health to make the outreach initiatives more effective and accountable for both the care givers and care receivers. The proposed solution uses a cloud platform and mobile phone that can be availed to great effect in planning, managing and organizing health initiatives and medical camps with focus on better patient engagement and handholding.