Maternal and Child Health Handbook App "Boshi Mo" Launches in Yamagata Village, Nagano Prefecture!

The maternal and child health handbook app "Boshi Mo," operated by Boshi Mo Co., Ltd., has been introduced in Yamagata Village, Higashichikuma-gun, Nagano Prefecture, and will be available as the "Yamagata Village Child-Rearing Support App" starting Wednesday, April 1st.

Yamagata Village has set "Challenge and Growth: Yamagata Where Children and Youth Shine" as the basic philosophy of its Yamagata Village Children's Plan, aiming to create an environment where children, who will carry the future, can act independently and enhance seamless support for child-rearing households.

This time, "Boshi Mo," which can record data from the paper Maternal and Child Health Handbook as digital data and has been introduced in over 830 municipalities, has been adopted. The operation will start based on the Children and Families Agency's policy*1 to promote the use of electronic maternal and child health handbooks and advance maternal and child health DX.

"Boshi Mo" is an app that easily supports services such as managing vaccination schedules and health check-up results, and delivering local information on smartphones, tablets, and PCs. Since the data is stored in the cloud, it serves as a backup in case the Maternal and Child Health Handbook is lost due to a disaster. It also supports continued use when moving to other municipalities or changing phone models, allowing users to continue using it with peace of mind.

◆ "Boshi Mo" launches in Yamagata Village, Nagano, packed with measures to support diverse child-rearing households!

The Yamagata Village Child-Rearing Support Center "Sukusuku" regularly holds events and activities exclusive to village residents. They are designed to be enjoyable for both parents and children, offering age-appropriate play and encouraging information exchange among parents. In addition, nursery teachers and public health nurses are available for consultation on daily parenting anxieties and concerns. They also offer a "Baby Food Class" for children in the weaning period and their guardians, providing support tailored to diverse families.

Furthermore, a "Temporary Childcare Service" is also available for parents who need to temporarily leave their children due to sudden outings, illness, or mental fatigue. With nursery teachers always present, the service can be used from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM on weekdays, up to three times a week, providing strong support for busy child-rearing households.

This time, "Boshi Mo" was adopted as a new tool for disseminating child-rearing information to help child-rearing households make more convenient use of the village's initiatives.

◆Strongly supporting pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting with a community-focused app!

The "Yamagata Village Child-Rearing Support App," adopted by Yamagata Village, is a service compatible with smartphones, tablets, and PCs. It is packed with convenient functions to help busy mothers and fathers, such as recording and managing health data for mothers and children, managing vaccination schedules, providing advice on childbirth and parenting, a sharing function with family members like grandparents living in distant areas, and notifying users of local information distributed by the village.

The "Dekita yo Kinenbi" (I did it! Anniversary) feature, which can be used as a parenting 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 developmental stages and parenting-related anniversaries, including the "Parent's Record" section of the handbook, with photos and messages, but also serves as a guide for the child's growth and development.

In addition, even when social environments change due to infectious diseases, the app can instantly deliver important information such as cautionary notices from the municipality and advice from public health nurses to those who need it via text or video, supporting the creation of an environment where mothers can give birth and raise children with peace of mind even in emergencies.