Maternal and Child Health Handbook App "Boshi-mo" Launches in Tenryu Village, Nagano Prefecture!

Boshi-mo Co., Ltd.'s maternal and child health handbook app "Boshi-mo" has been introduced in Tenryu Village, Shimoinagun, Nagano Prefecture, and will start offering services from Wednesday, April 1st. In Tenryu Village, a system is being built across the entire village to cherish and nurture each child, who are the treasures of the region, by supporting their growth through play and learning in a rich natural environment. This time, "Boshi-mo," which allows the data from paper maternal and child health handbooks to be digitally recorded and has been adopted by over 830 municipalities, was chosen. Operations will commence in accordance with the Children and Families Agency's policy*1 to utilize electronic maternal and child health handbooks and promote maternal and child health DX. "Boshi-mo" is an app that easily supports vaccination schedules, health checkup result management, and local information distribution via smartphones, tablets, and PCs. Since data is stored in the cloud, it serves as a backup in case of loss of the maternal and child health handbook due to disasters, and also supports continuous use when moving to other municipalities or changing device models, ensuring peace of mind for continued use. ◆ "Boshi-mo" Services Begin in Tenryu Village, Nagano Prefecture, Where a System to Watch Over Child-Rearing Across the Entire Village is Being Developed! In Tenryu Village, based on the idea that it is important for families, childcare centers, schools, and the community to cooperate in raising children, the village aims to secure places for children and enhance surveillance systems for their healthy development across the entire village. As part of this, to establish a system that accommodates children's long holidays, the "Tenryu Village After-School Children's Classroom" is implemented in cooperation with relevant organizations, promoting an environment where childcare can be conducted with peace of mind. Furthermore, the one childcare center in the village offers extended childcare, temporary childcare, and efforts to make school lunch fees and childcare fees free or reduced, meticulously responding to the diverse needs of child-rearing households. This time, "Boshi-mo" was adopted as a new tool for disseminating childcare information to make the village's initiatives more conveniently accessible to child-rearing households. ◆ Comprehensive Support for Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Childcare with a Community-Based Childcare App! "Boshi-mo," adopted by Tenryu Village, is a service compatible with smartphones, tablets, and PCs. It offers a wealth of convenient features that assist busy mothers and fathers with childcare and work, including recording and managing health data for 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 users of local information distributed by the village. The "Dekitayo Kinenbi" (I Did It Anniversary), which can be used as a childcare diary, was created based on the Children and Families Agency's sample maternal and child health handbook format. It not only allows users to record developmental milestones and childcare-related anniversaries, including the "parent's record" in the maternal and child health handbook, with photos and messages, but also serves as a guide for children's growth and development. Furthermore, even in times of social environmental changes due to factors such as 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 and video, supporting the creation of an environment where childbirth and childcare can be carried out with peace of mind even in emergencies.