Meenakshi Gautham|M. Sriram Iyengar|Craig Johnson
Mobile phone–based clinical guidance for rural health providers in India
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine|The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston|The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
tried tested mobile technology applications enhance standardize quality health care frontline rural health providers lowresource settings developed mediarich mobile phonebased clinical guidance system management fevers diarrhoeas respiratory problems rural health providers using randomized control design field tested application 16 rural health providers 128 patients two ruraltribal sites tamil nadu southern india protocol compliance groups phone usability acceptability patient feedback experimental group evaluated linear mixedmodel analyses showed statistically significant improvements protocol compliance experimental group usability acceptability among patients rural health providers high results indicate mobile phonebased mediarich procedural guidance applications significant potential achieving consistently standardized quality care diverse frontline rural health providers patient acceptance