Technology enabled non-physician health workers extending telemedicine to rural homes to control hypertension and diabetes (TETRA): A pre-post demonstration project in Telangana, India.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We aimed to determine the feasibility and effectiveness of an intervention anchored on mHealth and task sharing strategy of involving non-physician health workers (NPHW) on population level detection, treatment and control of hypertension and diabetes in India.

Methods

Non-physician health workers (NPHWs) equipped with tablet computers that were linked with point-of-care devices for blood pressure (BP) and blood sugar measurements visited households, screened adult individuals for hypertension and diabetes from two randomly selected villages in the Medchal district, Telangana, India. Further, they digitally connected those individuals with hypertension and diabetes to a study physician via Skype, and handed over a printed e-prescription. Medication adherence check

SUBMITTER: Dandge S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6380577 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature