Use of Mobile Technology by Community-Based Health Workers to Promote Maternal and Child Health in Bihar, India

Mobile phones were made available to community health workers in the intervention arms that integrated a comprehensive set of functions to assist them in their duties, including registration and tracking of beneficiaries, automated scheduling of home visits, provision of health information through videos, guided protocols for conducting home visits through checklists, a feature to track child immunizations, and supervisory tools.

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