Abstract
The rise of chronic disease and failure in the implementation of adequate prevention strategies places a heavy burden on the health systems of low- and middle-income countries. Despite vast interest in mobile health (mHealth) technologies, there is a lack of evidence for the clinical impact and scalability of mHealth tools for managing chronic diseases in a resource-constrained setting. This paper outlines the development and field evaluation of an mHealth solution in the form of a clinical decision support (CDS) tool. The CDS tool was tailored for use by healthcare providers within a primary care setup in rural India to perform screening and management of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. The CDS tool was designed prior to, and during an agile development phase that comprehensively engaged end-users namely primary health centre (PHC) physicians and rural non-physician healthcare workers (NPHWs). Lessons learnt from a pilot implementation are presented to help inform strategies for large-scale evaluation of mHealth technology in resource-constrained settings.
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