Unveiling the Black Box of Diagnostic and Clinical Decision Support Systems for Antenatal Care: Realist Evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital innovations have shown promise for improving maternal health service delivery. However, low- and middle-income countries are still at the adoption-utilization stage. Evidence on mobile health has been described as a black box, with gaps in theoretical explanations that account for the ecosystem of health care and their effect on adoption mechanisms. Bliss4Midwives, a modular integrated diagnostic kit to support antenatal care service delivery, was piloted for 1 year in Northern Ghana. Although both users and beneficiaries valued Bliss4Midwives, results from the pilot showed wide variations in usage behavior and duration of use across project sites.

Objective

To strengthen the design and implementation of an improved prototype, the study objectives were two

SUBMITTER: Abejirinde IO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6320439 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature