Reminders and Schedules are generated for various services e.g ANC and Child services, Deaths in a country.
For ANC as an examplevisits, when a new mother pregnant woman is registered , the mother she is enrolled for the ANC Visits, Hb Tests and TT doses. Similarly, when a new child is registered, the child is enrolled for various immunizations like BCG, OPV etc.
Some of these reminders are dependent on each other, these in OpenSRP are called, HookedEvents. For example, when the mother does her first ANC Visit, the ANC visit 1 is fulfilled and then the mother is enrolled for the second ANC visit. Therefore, enrollment of the second ANC visit is dependent on the completion if the milestones on the first ANC visit.
The workflow of the reminders happens as follows. For reminders, let us take ANC Registration as an example:
- An ANC Registration form is filled and saved
- The ziggy on the app creates the corresponding mother entity
- The form gets submitted to the server
- The server processes the form and creates the corresponding mother entity on the CouchDB
- The server then enrols enrolls this mother to the list of services like (ANC Visit1, Hb/Test, TT dose)
- The reminders are generated at a stipulated time at the server (4 pm. in case of Dristhi)
- These reminders are pushed to the app the next time the app syncs with the server
- These reminders get displayed in the app with a particular colour which corresponds to how soon is the reminder due
The reminders are colour coded as follows:
- Light Blue – The reminder is in the early window, which means that it is due but not anytime soon
- Dark Blue – The reminder is in the due window, the due date of the reminder/service is close
- Red – The reminder is in the late window, the due date for the reminder/service is already past
This being an example of a HealthSchedule, using the last menstrual period date as the start date, we will have ANC1, ANC2, ANC3 and ANC4 as milestones for this pregnant woman. Using ANC1 visit as an example, the pregnancy registration will schedule alerts for reminding the ANM about the ANC visits; with the alerts scheduled as:
- 1st alert at 0 week
- 2nd alerts at 12 weeks
- 3rd alert at 14 weeks
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