Maternal and Child Health App 'Boshimo' Starts Service in Iijima Town, Nagano Prefecture!

The maternal and child health handbook app "Boshimo," operated by Boshimo Co., Ltd., has been introduced in Iijima Town, Kamiina District, Nagano Prefecture, and will start being provided as "Iijima Sukusuku Navi" from April 1st (Wednesday). Under the basic philosophy of "Iijima: A town where all children can grow up healthily and build a rich future," Iijima Town aims to create a town where children can grow up healthily in mind and body by seamlessly supporting diverse child-rearing families across the entire community. This time, "Boshimo," which can record paper maternal and child health handbook data as digital data and is introduced in over 830 municipalities, has been adopted. Its operation will begin based on the Children and Families Agency's policy of utilizing the electronic version of the maternal and child health handbook and promoting maternal and child health DX. "Boshimo" is an app that easily supports the management of vaccination schedules and health checkup results, as well as the distribution of local information, via smartphones, tablets, and PCs. Since the data is saved in the cloud, it serves as a backup in case the maternal and child health handbook is lost due to a disaster, and it also supports continuous use when moving to other municipalities or changing device models, allowing users to continue using it with peace of mind. ◆ "Boshimo" starts provision in Iijima Town, Nagano Prefecture, which is attractive for its unique and diverse child-rearing support measures! Iijima Town is promoting the creation of an environment where people can start raising children with peace of mind by reducing the economic burden during childbirth and early child-rearing through the issuance of a 50,000 yen congratulatory birth gift per newborn. Furthermore, as a birth celebration gift for newborns, 5kg of "Kosmo Ogon," a specially cultivated Koshihikari rice produced in the town, is presented. By familiarizing people with safe and secure local brand rice produced with consideration for the environment, it leads to the promotion of food education and the promotion of agriculture. This time, "Boshimo" was adopted as a new tool for disseminating child-rearing information in order to allow child-rearing households to utilize the town's initiatives more conveniently. ◆ Firmly support pregnancy, childbirth, and child-rearing with a community-based child-rearing app! "Iijima Sukusuku Navi," adopted by Iijima Town, is a service compatible with smartphones, tablets, and PCs. It is full of convenient features that help mothers and fathers busy with child-rearing and work, such as recording and managing health data of pregnant women and children, managing vaccination schedules, providing advice on childbirth and child-rearing, a sharing function with family members such as grandparents living in distant areas, and notifying local information distributed by the town. "Dekitayo Kinenbi" (I Did It Anniversary), which can be used as a childcare diary, was created based on the Children and Families Agency's maternal and child health handbook format examples. It not only allows users to record anniversaries related to developmental stages and child-rearing, including the "Guardian's Record" of the maternal and child health handbook, with photos and messages, but also serves as a guide for children's growth and development. In addition, even when a social environmental change occurs due to the influence of infectious diseases, etc., important information such as cautionary information from the local government and advice from public health nurses can be delivered immediately to those who need it via text or video through the app, supporting the creation of an environment where people can give birth and raise children with peace of mind even in emergencies.