Developing and deploying a community healthcare worker-driven, digitally- enabled integrated care system for municipalities in rural Nepal.

ABSTRACT: Integrating care at the home and facility level is a critical yet neglected function of healthcare delivery systems. There are few examples in practice or in the academic literature of affordable, digitally-enabled integrated care approaches embedded within healthcare delivery systems in low- and middle-income countries. Simultaneous advances in affordable digital technologies and community healthcare workers offer an opportunity to address this challenge. We describe the development of an integrated care system involving community healthcare worker networks that utilize a home-to-facility electronic health record platform for rural municipalities in Nepal. Key aspects of our approach of relevance to a global audience include: community healthcare workers continuously engaging with populat

SUBMITTER: Citrin D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7739377 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature