Funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Mobile Technology for Community Health (MOTECH) initiative is a collaboration between the Grameen Foundation, Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, and the Ghana Health Service. The two and a half year project has developed a suite of services delivered over basic mobile phones that provides relevant health information to pregnant women and encourages them to seek antenatal care from local facilities. After the birth, the system addresses common questions about newborn care. Simultaneously, the MOTECH system also helps health workers to identify women and newborns in their area in need of healthcare services and automates the process of tracking patients who have received care.

This site is a proof-of-concept built by the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning in collaboration with the Mailman School of Public Health. It shows how data collected by health workers in the process of tracking patients could be used in reports and visualizations to assist health managers who supervise and support Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) facilities.

The reports shown here are derived from discussions held with members of the Kassena-Nankana District (KND) and Kassena-Nankana West District (KNWD) Health Management Teams (DHMTs). Participants were those DHMT members who routinely perform supervision of CHPS zone and Health Centres in their districts. The aim was to identify how information collected by the MoTeCH nurse application could be used to enhance their work as supervisors. The two main themes for supervision to arise were 1) to help address target shortfalls and 2) to alert supervisors to problems with defaulting patients and missed neonatal visits. Reports were thus developed on services versus targets and missed services.