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eSanjeevaniIndia's national telemedicine service connecting patients and rural clinics to doctors and specialists.DIADA project: integrated detection and care for depression and alcohol use in primary careTechnology-supported care model to integrate mental health into Colombian primary care, developed by the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana with the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and funded by the NIMH (award 1U19MH109988). It combines electronic screening kiosks in waiting rooms with clinical decision support tools on tablets so that general practitioners can detect and treat depression and risky alcohol use. It was implemented between February 2018 and March 2020 at six sites: Bogotá, Santa Rosa de Viterbo and Duitama (Boyacá), Guasca and Soacha (Cundinamarca) and Armero-Guayabal (Tolima), including rural primary-level centers.Bive (Fundación Vive con Bienestar): low-cost membership for rural health accessSocial enterprise founded in 2012 in Manizales (Coffee Axis) that connects rural and low-income families with a network of 250-400 private health providers through a low-cost annual membership: discounts of up to 50-70% and faster care compared with the 2-3 months of the traditional system. Since 2015 it has worked with coffee cooperatives and reports more than 32,000 users (90% from rural communities) and 150,000 beneficiaries of social health projects (cervical cancer and HPV screening, training of youth health leaders, community telepharmacy and the Bive Previene program with a georeferenced platform for vector-borne diseases). Ongoing programs with coffee grower cooperatives (e.g. 'Mujer Bive tu salud' with the Cooperativa de Caficultores de Aguadas).mMitra / Kilkari (ARMMAN, maternal and child mobile messaging)Free voice message service synchronized with the stage of pregnancy/child-rearing for low-income women, created by the NGO ARMMAN in Mumbai (mMitra, 2014). A pseudo-randomized trial (BMC Public Health 2020, Murthy et al.) showed improvements in maternal self-care knowledge and practices. The model scaled as Kilkari, implemented with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare: the world's largest mobile maternal messaging program, expanding to all states and territories of India by 2026, and integrated into the national JANANI platform (launched by the Government of India in May 2026). It uses AI (restless multi-armed bandits, the SAHELI project with Google Research and Harvard) to prioritize retention calls.Khushi Baby / CHIP (Community Health Integrated Platform)Born in 2014 as a university project at Yale: a culturally adapted NFC pendant that stores the baby's vaccination history and is scanned at immunization camps. A cluster RCT in Udaipur (Vaccine 2018, 96 villages in 3 arms) evaluated the pendant + voice reminders against a control NFC sticker. It evolved into CHIP, a digital platform for community health workers adopted by the government of Rajasthan as technical partner, today with 85,000+ workers enabled in Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Karnataka, including a Climate & Health Vulnerability Index (CHVI) developed with the Rajasthan Department of Health.PROMPTS (Jacaranda Health)Digital health platform via SMS (in English and Swahili) for pregnant and postpartum mothers in public hospitals in Kenya: informational messages, appointment reminders and a two-way clinical helpdesk with AI-assisted triage (86% of responses automated, escalation to clinical agents 24/7). More than 750,000 women enrolled at the start of the RCT (Nov 2021) and more than 2 million additional afterwards; it operates with 22 county governments in Kenya. In Kenya it has reached more than 3.8 million mothers (more than 700,000 in 2025). Expansion to Nigeria (Kano State) in March 2026 via a partnership with eHealth Africa (adaptation to Hausa, target of 25,000 mothers in the initial phase); also prior presence in other African countries.
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The Effectiveness of Mobile-Health Technology-Based Health Behaviour Change or Disease Management Interventions for Health Care Consumers: A Systematic ReviewPLOS Medicine · 2013 · paperdocumentmHealth innovations as health system strengthening tools: 12 common applications and a visual frameworkGlobal Health: Science and Practice · 2013 · theorydocumentNetworks of Action: Sustainable Health Information Systems Across Developing CountriesMIS Quarterly (vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 337-362) · 2004 · paperdocument