Monitoring Access to Healthcare

 
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Region: 
Africa & Middle East
Country: 
Ghana
Partners: 
SEND West Africa;
IICD;
Cordaid;
Activities: 

The Ghanaian government instituted a National Health Insurance Scheme in 2003 to remove the financial barriers to quality health care for the poor. The 2-year project launched in 2009 developed an open source monitoring tool for use on handheld mobile devices to collect and share data on whether the poor are actually benefiting from the scheme. Using mobile technology enables the transmission and sharing of data with grassroots organisations and others despite a generally poor communication infrastructure.

Further reading: 

IICD, Mobile Devices Help Monitor Access to Healthcare in Ghana

[added May 2011]

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