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Front End
How eCompliance Works
The Front End
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eCompliance Tablet
Patients, Health Worker
& Program Manager
SMS
Back End
Uses only off-the-shelf
components
 A fingerprint reader
 An Android Tablet
The Back End
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Electronic Reporting
System
SMS Gateway for Sending
Alerts
Electronic Medical Record
System
Central Database
Online SMS Gateway
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The Key Benefits of eCompliance
PATIENT AND COMMUNITY LEVEL
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Positive impact on the psyche
Improves motivation
Seen as dedication towards quality treatment
Interest generated by technology intervention in disadvantaged areas
Re-enforces belief in the government and DOTS
Indirect benefit- discussion of health issues
AT LEVEL OF FIELD STAFF
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Ensures integrity of DOTS: eliminates unsupervised doses, which are otherwise the norm
across the world
Eliminates human errors in management of DOTS. For example, if a patient comes on the
wrong day, eCompliance automatically reminds the counselors and prevents such
occurrences
Improves skills
Makes counseling easy, ie. easier to convince patients
Accurate reporting and up-to-date intelligence
– Eliminates human error
Saves time spent in going through paper records
Real-time records allows counselors to target counseling
Produces all reports automatically.
The above results in 30% improvement in productivity and reduction of costs, which
more than pays for the cost of eCompliance terminals.
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The Key Benefits of eCompliance
MANAGEMENT LEVEL
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Accuracy of records
Transparency
An accurate platform for monitoring and evaluation of the core
program
– Eliminates absenteeism, late coming of staff
– Prevents tampering with patient data
Transparent treatment supervision
Ensures proper payment of performance based incentives
THE PUBLIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVE
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ENSURES DOTS is being delivered
Halts the development of drug resistance due to default.
Provides unlimited quality data for future research
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