Maternal and child health handbook app 'Boshi-mo' starts providing service in Minamiaizu Town, Fukushima Prefecture!
The electronic maternal and child health handbook app 'Boshi-mo' launched in Minamiaizu Town on April 1. It supports local childcare with features like vaccination management and community info distribution.
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The maternal and child health handbook app "Boshi-mo," operated by Boshi-mo Co., Ltd., has been introduced in Minamiaizu Town, Minamiaizu District, Fukushima Prefecture, and started being provided on Wednesday, April 1 as the "Minamiaizu Town Child-rearing Support App."
With the basic philosophy of "a town where you feel glad to have raised a child, and glad to have been raised," Minamiaizu Town promotes town-building where children's rights and health are protected, and people can safely give birth and raise children while supporting each other throughout the community.
This time, "Boshi-mo", which can record the data of paper maternal and child health handbooks as digital data and has been introduced in over 830 municipalities, was adopted. The operation begins based on the Children and Families Agency's policy to utilize electronic maternal and child health handbooks and promote maternal and child health DX *1.
"Boshi-mo" is an app that easily supports the management of vaccination schedules and checkup results, and local information distribution on smartphones, tablet devices, and PCs. Because the data is saved on the cloud, it serves as a backup in case the maternal and child health handbook is lost due to disasters. It also supports continuous use when moving to other municipalities or changing device models, allowing it to be used continuously with peace of mind.
◆ Introducing "Boshi-mo" in Minamiaizu Town, Fukushima Prefecture, where support closely aligned with residents is in place, from pregnancy and childbirth to child-rearing!
In Minamiaizu Town, the Minamiaizu Town Children and Families Center "Egao Plus" was opened within the Health and Welfare Division in May 2024 to create an environment where people can safely go through pregnancy, childbirth, and child-rearing. Working together with public health nurses, specialists (certified psychologists, speech therapists, nursery teachers), and related organizations, they carefully face all kinds of concerns regarding pregnancy, childbirth, and child-rearing, such as infant checkups, vaccinations, development, and school life.
In addition, the town subsidizes half of the total childcare fees for the relevant fiscal year for children under 3 years old, who are not eligible for the national free childcare program. Furthermore, to support parents working hard at child-rearing in the community, the town provides 100,000 yen worth of gift certificates per newborn child that can be used in the town, reducing the burden on child-rearing households and preparing an environment where children can be born and raised with peace of mind.
This time, "Boshi-mo" was adopted as a new tool for disseminating child-rearing information so that child-rearing households can utilize the town's initiatives more conveniently.
◆ Firmly supporting pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare with a community-based child-rearing app!
The "Minamiaizu Town Child-rearing Support App" adopted by Minamiaizu Town is a service compatible with smartphones, tablets, and PCs. It has a wealth of convenient functions that help mothers and fathers busy with childcare and work, such as recording and managing health data of expectant mothers 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 regional information distributed by the town.
The "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 allows users to record anniversaries related to developmental stages and childcare, including the "Parent's Record" of the maternal and child health handbook, with photos and messages, and also serves as a guideline for children's growth and development.
In addition, even when social environmental changes occur due to factors such as infectious diseases, the app can instantly deliver important information such as warning information from municipalities and advice from public health nurses via text and video to those who need it, supporting the creation of an environment where people can give birth and raise children with peace of mind even in emergencies.
With the basic philosophy of "a town where you feel glad to have raised a child, and glad to have been raised," Minamiaizu Town promotes town-building where children's rights and health are protected, and people can safely give birth and raise children while supporting each other throughout the community.
This time, "Boshi-mo", which can record the data of paper maternal and child health handbooks as digital data and has been introduced in over 830 municipalities, was adopted. The operation begins based on the Children and Families Agency's policy to utilize electronic maternal and child health handbooks and promote maternal and child health DX *1.
"Boshi-mo" is an app that easily supports the management of vaccination schedules and checkup results, and local information distribution on smartphones, tablet devices, and PCs. Because the data is saved on the cloud, it serves as a backup in case the maternal and child health handbook is lost due to disasters. It also supports continuous use when moving to other municipalities or changing device models, allowing it to be used continuously with peace of mind.
◆ Introducing "Boshi-mo" in Minamiaizu Town, Fukushima Prefecture, where support closely aligned with residents is in place, from pregnancy and childbirth to child-rearing!
In Minamiaizu Town, the Minamiaizu Town Children and Families Center "Egao Plus" was opened within the Health and Welfare Division in May 2024 to create an environment where people can safely go through pregnancy, childbirth, and child-rearing. Working together with public health nurses, specialists (certified psychologists, speech therapists, nursery teachers), and related organizations, they carefully face all kinds of concerns regarding pregnancy, childbirth, and child-rearing, such as infant checkups, vaccinations, development, and school life.
In addition, the town subsidizes half of the total childcare fees for the relevant fiscal year for children under 3 years old, who are not eligible for the national free childcare program. Furthermore, to support parents working hard at child-rearing in the community, the town provides 100,000 yen worth of gift certificates per newborn child that can be used in the town, reducing the burden on child-rearing households and preparing an environment where children can be born and raised with peace of mind.
This time, "Boshi-mo" was adopted as a new tool for disseminating child-rearing information so that child-rearing households can utilize the town's initiatives more conveniently.
◆ Firmly supporting pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare with a community-based child-rearing app!
The "Minamiaizu Town Child-rearing Support App" adopted by Minamiaizu Town is a service compatible with smartphones, tablets, and PCs. It has a wealth of convenient functions that help mothers and fathers busy with childcare and work, such as recording and managing health data of expectant mothers 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 regional information distributed by the town.
The "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 allows users to record anniversaries related to developmental stages and childcare, including the "Parent's Record" of the maternal and child health handbook, with photos and messages, and also serves as a guideline for children's growth and development.
In addition, even when social environmental changes occur due to factors such as infectious diseases, the app can instantly deliver important information such as warning information from municipalities and advice from public health nurses via text and video to those who need it, supporting the creation of an environment where people can give birth and raise children with peace of mind even in emergencies.