Software to track antenatal women, newborns upgraded in Tamil Nadu

The Pregnancy and Infant Cohort Monitoring and Evaluation, a software, that captures the details of nearly 11 lakh pregnant women in the State every year, has now got an upgrade. The new PICME 3.0 will “actively promote” self-registration for RCH ID, and pave the way for sharing of the linelist through PICME with the Integrated Child Development Services scheme for monitoring of babies discharged from the Special Newborn Care Units. We have planned to bring out a detailed dashboard at the level of every institution so that details such as how many have registered, and how many are high risk pregnant women will be available to them.” “As we have people who avail services in both the public and private sector, private institutions are being enabled to update the patient details,” he added. Tracking all high risk pregnant women is a critical component of PICME, he said, adding: “All RCH IDs of high risk pregnant women are now visible to all 129 Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care centres. “Similarly, we will be sharing the list of newborns discharged from Special Newborn Care Units including low birthweight babies with the Integrated Child Development Services scheme.