Understand the topic
What this means in daily life
A portable maternity record should help authorised professionals continue care when a woman changes service. It needs minimal information, understandable consent, reliable correction and a usable alternative when a device or network fails.
Portability is useful when the next professional can retrieve accurate, necessary information in time. The proposed card needs a correction route and an offline alternative, with clear control over who can read or change sensitive maternity details.
Data reference table
Evidence Snapshot
Read each value with its reporting period, population and limitations. A historical national reference is not a local baseline or proof that an IFT proposal works.
5 measurement records still need data and a review of their relevance.
| Signal | Reference Value | Period / Population | How to Read It | Source Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early registration and quality ANC | Not established Data required — not zero | Reporting period: Information Required Population and geography: Information Required | Proposed measure; no observed value is established here. Limitations: Define the measure, unit, reporting period and covered population; obtain a traceable dataset and review its suitability for this topic before using a number. | Source organisation: Information Required Direct source URL: not yet verified Source publication date: not established Verification status: Data required |
| Risk detection-to-referral time | Not established Data required — not zero | Reporting period: Information Required Population and geography: Information Required | Proposed measure; no observed value is established here. Limitations: Define the measure, unit, reporting period and covered population; obtain a traceable dataset and review its suitability for this topic before using a number. | Source organisation: Information Required Direct source URL: not yet verified Source publication date: not established Verification status: Data required |
| Emergency obstetric readiness | Not established Data required — not zero | Reporting period: Information Required Population and geography: Information Required | Proposed measure; no observed value is established here. Limitations: Define the measure, unit, reporting period and covered population; obtain a traceable dataset and review its suitability for this topic before using a number. | Source organisation: Information Required Direct source URL: not yet verified Source publication date: not established Verification status: Data required |
| Severe maternal morbidity/mortality | Not established Data required — not zero | Reporting period: Information Required Population and geography: Information Required | Proposed measure; no observed value is established here. Limitations: Define the measure, unit, reporting period and covered population; obtain a traceable dataset and review its suitability for this topic before using a number. | Source organisation: Information Required Direct source URL: not yet verified Source publication date: not established Verification status: Data required |
| Postnatal and newborn continuity | Not established Data required — not zero | Reporting period: Information Required Population and geography: Information Required | Proposed measure; no observed value is established here. Limitations: Define the measure, unit, reporting period and covered population; obtain a traceable dataset and review its suitability for this topic before using a number. | Source organisation: Information Required Direct source URL: not yet verified Source publication date: not established Verification status: Data required |
Different surveys, administrative records, estimates and reporting years are not interchangeable. No combined IFT score is calculated from these rows.
Evidence coverage and review log (CSV) · Structured evidence register (JSON)
10 ideas for this topic
What could be done — and what needs testing
These are proposals for research and local testing. They are not claims that a project has been funded, implemented or proved successful.
Minimum record design
Ask maternity teams which information is necessary for continuity
What to check: Remove fields without a defined care purpose
Consent explanation
Explain what sharing permits and with whom
What to check: Test comprehension without relying on a long consent screen
Role-based access
Limit each service to information required for its task
What to check: Inspect whether administrative users can see sensitive clinical details
Offline continuity
Provide an appropriate woman-held fallback for network failure
What to check: Test a referral without mobile data
Result provenance
Label test and clinical entries with source and date
What to check: Check whether a receiving clinician can identify an outdated finding
Correction route
Allow authorised correction of mistaken entries
What to check: Verify that corrected values reach connected care teams
Migration transfer
Test a change of facility or district
What to check: Check whether records remain usable without restarting registration
Lost-device recovery
Offer secure recovery without dependence on one phone
What to check: Test that recovery does not expose another person’s record
Access logging
Review who viewed or changed sensitive information
What to check: Follow unexplained access through an accountable process
Retention and exit
Specify lawful retention and vendor handover arrangements
What to check: Rehearse continued care if the software supplier changes
References and evidence limits
- WHO: Antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience
Professional assessment, person-centred care and service continuity; local clinical protocols and individual decisions require qualified review.
Reference guidance informs the proposal. It does not establish local conditions, approve a design or prove that these proposed projects work.