In this fast developing world, changes in lifestyle are always accompanied by health-related issues and ailments. And with people's growing dependency on technology, taking out time to address such issues becomes a challenge for many.
Keeping this in mind, a team of three from AU, have come up with the idea of providing healthrelated tips over phone. What more can anyone want with health-related tips just a call away.
The threesome's start up — Kahinee — is currently incubated at the university's Venture Studio as a part of the AU student fellowship programme. Kahinee, a voice-assisted service (VAS) system, aims at educating and spreading awareness among rural population about maternal and child care, nutrition, anaemia and government health policies/facilities. For the purpose, a toll-free number shall also be provided to rural people, which will educate them as well as solve their queries pertaining to health issues in their local language via audio notes.
For the success of their initiative, Kahinee will impart training and healthcare education to ASHA workers, Primary Healthcare Centres' (PHCs) doctors, nurses and rural patients. Appointing ASHA workers is a government initiative through which the gap between local residents and PHCs' doctors will be bridged. "Our system uses creatively designed audio plays and scripts to train them about various health issues.
Everything is done using cloud services as well as maintaining back-end databases to gauge the impact," said Anmol Anubhai. Elaborating on the authentication of the information, Shashwat said, "We authenticate all our content and data by getting it proof-read and checked by doctors, including both my parents who are doctors. They are always available to provide advice, which helps us greatly in our endeavour. Besides them, we have met and consulted a number of other doctors and will continue to do so. However, whenever we write a script, we get it proof-read."
"We intend to work on the scalability of our model and make our scripts more effective and creative. We also wish to use folk music and tales to educate them about health ailments. Besides, two rural residents will also leave audio notes stating their symptoms for the doctors to respond. This service will be free-of-cost," Rahul added.
