Maternal and child health handbook app 'Boshimo' starts offering services in Ogawa Village, Nagano Prefecture!
The electronic maternal and child health handbook app 'Boshimo' has been introduced in Ogawa Village, Nagano, centralizing child-rearing support and subsidy information to improve resident services.
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The maternal and child health handbook app 'Boshimo', operated by Boshimo Co., Ltd., has been introduced in Ogawa Village, Kamiminochi District, Nagano Prefecture, and will start offering services as the 'Ogawa Child-rearing Support App' from April 1st (Wednesday).
The basic philosophy of Ogawa Village is to aim for a village where children can be raised with a sense of security and joy in order to nurture rich hearts and bodies, providing seamless support for the healthy growth of each individual from infancy to school age. In addition, it aims to create an environment where the entire community supports child growth and child-rearing, staying close to the growth of not only children but also parents.
This time, 'Boshimo', which allows paper maternal and child health handbook data to be recorded as digital data and has been adopted by over 830 municipalities, was selected. It will start operations based on the Children and Families Agency's policy of utilizing electronic maternal and child health handbooks and promoting maternal and child health DX (*1).
'Boshimo' is an app that easily supports the management of vaccination schedules, health checkup results, and the distribution of local information via smartphones, tablets, and PCs. Because the data is stored 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 another municipality or changing devices, allowing you to continue using it with peace of mind.
◆ Starting the provision of 'Boshimo' in Ogawa Village, Nagano Prefecture, which supports childcare across the entire village through comprehensive child-rearing support measures!
Ogawa Village aims to 'create an environment and relationships that make it easy to consult', and works to support child-rearing households through the provision of administrative services and cooperation with health centers, nursery schools, and schools.
Along with subsidizing health checkup expenses during pregnancy and postpartum, the village implements initiatives that care for pregnant women's bodies such as 'nutrition consultation for babies', and aims to enhance postpartum support and convenience, such as postpartum care and breastfeeding consultations.
In addition, diverse support is provided for each age group. The 'Sukoyaka Seicho Iwaikin' (Healthy Growth Celebration Gift) provided as financial support pays 100,000 yen at birth (from the 1st to the 3rd child), and 200,000 yen from the 4th child onwards. It also pays 30,000 yen upon reaching 4 years of age, and 50,000 yen each upon entering elementary and junior high school, supporting children's growth at every milestone.
This time, to make the village's initiatives more convenient and smooth for child-rearing households to utilize, 'Boshimo' was adopted as a new tool for disseminating child-rearing information.
◆ Solidly supporting pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare with a community-based child-rearing app!
The 'Ogawa Child-rearing Support App' adopted by Ogawa Village is a service compatible with smartphones, tablets, and PCs. It is packed with convenient features that 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 in distant areas, and notifying local information distributed by the village.
'Dekitayo Kinenbi' (I Did It Anniversary), which can be used as a childcare diary, was created based on the maternal and child health handbook format examples of the Children and Families Agency. It can not only record developmental stages and anniversaries related to childcare, including the 'guardian's record' of the handbook, along with photos and messages, but also serves as a guideline for children's growth and development.
In addition, even when social environmental changes occur due to the impact of infectious diseases, important information such as advisory information from municipalities and advice from public health nurses can be accessed through the app.
The basic philosophy of Ogawa Village is to aim for a village where children can be raised with a sense of security and joy in order to nurture rich hearts and bodies, providing seamless support for the healthy growth of each individual from infancy to school age. In addition, it aims to create an environment where the entire community supports child growth and child-rearing, staying close to the growth of not only children but also parents.
This time, 'Boshimo', which allows paper maternal and child health handbook data to be recorded as digital data and has been adopted by over 830 municipalities, was selected. It will start operations based on the Children and Families Agency's policy of utilizing electronic maternal and child health handbooks and promoting maternal and child health DX (*1).
'Boshimo' is an app that easily supports the management of vaccination schedules, health checkup results, and the distribution of local information via smartphones, tablets, and PCs. Because the data is stored 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 another municipality or changing devices, allowing you to continue using it with peace of mind.
◆ Starting the provision of 'Boshimo' in Ogawa Village, Nagano Prefecture, which supports childcare across the entire village through comprehensive child-rearing support measures!
Ogawa Village aims to 'create an environment and relationships that make it easy to consult', and works to support child-rearing households through the provision of administrative services and cooperation with health centers, nursery schools, and schools.
Along with subsidizing health checkup expenses during pregnancy and postpartum, the village implements initiatives that care for pregnant women's bodies such as 'nutrition consultation for babies', and aims to enhance postpartum support and convenience, such as postpartum care and breastfeeding consultations.
In addition, diverse support is provided for each age group. The 'Sukoyaka Seicho Iwaikin' (Healthy Growth Celebration Gift) provided as financial support pays 100,000 yen at birth (from the 1st to the 3rd child), and 200,000 yen from the 4th child onwards. It also pays 30,000 yen upon reaching 4 years of age, and 50,000 yen each upon entering elementary and junior high school, supporting children's growth at every milestone.
This time, to make the village's initiatives more convenient and smooth for child-rearing households to utilize, 'Boshimo' was adopted as a new tool for disseminating child-rearing information.
◆ Solidly supporting pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare with a community-based child-rearing app!
The 'Ogawa Child-rearing Support App' adopted by Ogawa Village is a service compatible with smartphones, tablets, and PCs. It is packed with convenient features that 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 in distant areas, and notifying local information distributed by the village.
'Dekitayo Kinenbi' (I Did It Anniversary), which can be used as a childcare diary, was created based on the maternal and child health handbook format examples of the Children and Families Agency. It can not only record developmental stages and anniversaries related to childcare, including the 'guardian's record' of the handbook, along with photos and messages, but also serves as a guideline for children's growth and development.
In addition, even when social environmental changes occur due to the impact of infectious diseases, important information such as advisory information from municipalities and advice from public health nurses can be accessed through the app.