Agile Development of a Smartphone App for Perinatal Monitoring in a Resource-Constrained Setting.

ABSTRACT: Technology provides the potential to empower frontline healthcare workers with low levels of training and literacy, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. An obvious platform for achieving this aim is the smartphone, a low cost, almost ubiquitous device with good supply chain infrastructure and a general cultural acceptance for its use. In particular, the smartphone offers the opportunity to provide augmented or procedural information through active audiovisual aids to illiterate or untrained users, as described in this article. In this article, the process of refinement and iterative design of a smartphone application prototype to support perinatal surveillance in rural Guatemala for indigenous Maya lay midwives with low levels of literacy and technology exposure is described.

SUBMITTER: Martinez B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5604479 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature