Innovations

Approach towards Quality Improvement in Public Healthcare Facilities

Latest developments in India's health-care ecosystem necessitate new and adaptable techniques to improve results and eliminate inefficiency. Design Thinking is a creative problem-solving technique that harnesses ideas from end-users of new goods, services, and experiences to generate best-fit solutions that are swiftly prototyped and iteratively improved.

When compared to traditional problem-solving methodologies in health care and other public health-related disciplines, Design Thinking results in more successful and long-term interventions. Design Thinking has improved patient, provider, and community satisfaction, and in public health, it has boosted efficiency and collaboration in intervention implementation.

• Evidence demonstrates that in order to boost productivity and solve inefficiencies, the health care personnel must be innovative.
• Innovation is especially difficult in public health because issues are often complicated, dynamic, and context-specific, and they can occur rapidly and unexpectedly, necessitating quick and efficient answers.
• However, existing health care and public health educational paradigms give little instruction in creative thinking and innovative abilities.
• As a result, traditional public health education may be supplemented with new, non-linear, adaptable, and cost-effective techniques.
• Design Thinking is one such tool; it is an innovative approach to problem solving that uses insights from end-users of new products, services, and experiences to develop best-fit solutions that are rapidly prototyped and iteratively refined so that they can be deployed quickly and cost-effectively.
• It is a "human-centric" method that entails developing solutions together with target audiences, empathising, producing a clear and brief issue statement, creative brainstorming, and low-fidelity prototype.
• Design Thinking guides the early stages of innovation by eliciting profound empathy for users and a thorough grasp of the difficulties they face.

Team-Based Goals and Incentives

Raah-e-Najaat worked with local hospitals and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to arrange and facilitate training sessions for Front Line Workers (FLW) at health sub centres and improving public healthcare services.

• Increasing the community's connection to the main healthcare system.
• FLWs get continual training and supportive supervision.
• Increasing ASHA and AWW collaboration and coordination.
• Reviewing and planning FLW initiatives based on community needs indicated through data obtained during home visits.
• Implementing the Team Goals and Incentives (TGI) innovation to boost their motivation and job performance by leveraging the power of incentives, teamwork, and goal setting.
• 5 Steps strategy to achieve desire results, 1. Learn 2. Define 3. Ideate 4. Prototype 5. Test

A Digital Scale for Weighing Newborn Babies

Assessing A Newborn's Weight

A baby's birth weight is an important indicator of health. The average weight for full-term babies (born between 37 and 41 weeks gestation) is about 7 pounds (3.2 kg). In general, small babies and very large babies are more likely to have problems. Newborn babies may lose as much as 10% of their birth weight. This means that a baby weighing 7 pounds 3 ounces at birth might lose as much as 10 ounces in the first few days. On monthly hospital visits, the Raah-e-Najaat team collaborates with a monitoring team to detect, follow, and care for babies with very low birth weight. The adoption of a basic and inexpensive tool—a digital scale—is a significant component of this invention, boosting the ANM's accuracy in estimating the weight of babies soon after birth