Maternal and Child Health Handbook App 'Boshimo' Launches in Nagiso Town, Nagano Prefecture!

Boshimo, a maternal and child health handbook app operated by Boshimo Inc., has been introduced in Nagiso Town, Kiso District, Nagano Prefecture, and will start being provided as 'Nagisokko Navi' from Wednesday, April 1. In Nagiso Town, aiming to build a society where all children can have dreams and hopes with a positive attitude, they are aiming for support based on solving issues throughout the region and society, rather than making child-rearing solely the responsibility of the family. This time, 'Boshimo', which can record data of paper maternal and child health handbooks as digital data and has been introduced in over 830 municipalities, was adopted and will begin operation based on the policy of promoting the use of electronic maternal and child health handbooks and maternal and child health DX by the Children and Families Agency. 'Boshimo' is an app that easily supports the management of vaccination schedules and medical checkup results, and 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 disasters, and it also supports continuous use when moving to other municipalities or changing devices, allowing users to continue using it with peace of mind. ◆ Provision of 'Boshimo' begins in Nagiso Town, Nagano Prefecture, a town where children grow up healthily while being protected by the community! In Nagiso Town, a 'Support Project for Transportation Expenses, etc. for Maternity Health Checkups and Childbirth for Pregnant Women' is being implemented, subsidizing transportation expenses for maternity health checkups and transportation and accommodation expenses for childbirth for pregnant women who require approximately 30 minutes or more to travel from their residence or parents' home to the nearest obstetrics medical institution. This leads to the creation of an environment where they can face childbirth with peace of mind. In addition, they support the healthy growth of children from various perspectives, such as 'Book Start,' which presents picture books to talk to babies for 8-month-old children, and 'Book Start Plus,' which presents picture books every month throughout the year for 2-year-old children. This time, in order to have child-rearing households utilize the town's initiatives more conveniently, 'Boshimo' was adopted as a new tool for disseminating child-rearing information. ◆ Firmly support pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare with a community-based child-rearing app! 'Nagisokko Navi,' adopted by Nagiso Town, is a service compatible with smartphones, tablets, and PCs, packed with convenient features to help mothers and fathers busy with childcare and work, such as recording and managing health data of pregnant women and children, managing vaccination schedules, providing advice on childbirth and childcare, sharing functions with family members such as grandparents living far away, and notifying regional information distributed by the town. 'Dekitayo Kinenbi' (I Did It Anniversary), which can be used as a childcare diary, was created based on the examples of the maternal and child health handbook format of the Children and Families Agency, and can not only record developmental stages and anniversaries related to child-rearing, including the 'guardian's record' of the maternal and child health handbook, with photos and messages, but also serves as a guideline for children's growth and development. Furthermore, even when social environmental changes occur due to the influence of infectious diseases, etc., important information such as cautionary information from local governments and advice from public health nurses can be instantly delivered 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.