Maternal and Child Health Handbook App "Boshimo" Launches in Ikeda Town, Nagano Prefecture!
Ikeda Town in Nagano Prefecture has introduced "Boshimo," a digital maternal and child health handbook app, launching it as "Ikeda Kodomo ga Mannaka Navi" on April 1st. The app aims to provide seamless support from pregnancy to child-rearing by allowing users to record health data, manage vaccination schedules, and receive local information digitally. This initiative aligns with the town's vision of creating a supportive environment for children's healthy growth and the national government's push for maternal and child health DX.
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Boshimo Inc., operator of the maternal and child health handbook app "Boshimo," has introduced the app in Ikeda Town, Kitaazumi District, Nagano Prefecture, and began providing it as "Ikeda Kodomo ga Mannaka Navi" on Wednesday, April 1st.
Under the basic philosophy of "a town where resilient children who will pioneer the future grow up," Ikeda Town is promoting the creation of an environment where children and young people can grow up healthy in mind and body, have their rights protected, and envision and realize the life they desire, through seamless support from the pregnancy period to the child-rearing period.
This time, "Boshimo," which allows the data of the paper maternal and child health handbook to be recorded as digital data and has been adopted by more than 830 municipalities, was selected. The operation will begin in consideration of the Children and Families Agency's policy*1 to promote the use of the electronic version of the maternal and child health handbook and maternal and child health DX.
"Boshimo" is an app that easily supports the management of vaccination schedules and medical checkup results, as well as the distribution of local information, via smartphones, tablet devices, and PCs. Because the data is stored in the cloud, it serves as a backup in case the paper maternal and child health handbook is lost due to a disaster, and it also supports continuous use when moving to another municipality or changing devices, allowing it to be used continuously with peace of mind.
◆Launch of "Boshimo" in Ikeda Town, Nagano Prefecture, where support tailored to life stages is attractive!
In addition to providing a flat birth celebration gift of 20,000 yen to parents of newborns, Ikeda Town also provides an elementary and junior high school enrollment celebration gift of 50,000 yen per child upon entering elementary school and 30,000 yen per child upon entering junior high school.
Furthermore, as a base for providing seamless support from the pregnancy period to the child-rearing period, the Ikeda Town Children and Families Center "Nikomaru" has been established, offering comprehensive measures tailored to life stages, such as providing places for parents and children to interact and providing consultation support regarding child-rearing.
To enable child-rearing households to utilize the town's initiatives more conveniently, "Boshimo" was adopted as a new tool for disseminating child-rearing information.
◆Providing solid support for pregnancy, childbirth, and child-rearing with a community-based child-rearing app!
"Ikeda Kodomo ga Mannaka Navi," adopted by Ikeda Town, is a service compatible with smartphones, tablet devices, and PCs. It is packed with convenient features to assist mothers and fathers busy with child-rearing and work, such as recording and managing health data of pregnant women and children, managing vaccination schedules, providing advice on childbirth and child-rearing, sharing functions with family members such as grandparents living in distant areas, and notifying local information distributed by the town.
The "I Did It Anniversary" feature, 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 not only allows users to record developmental stages and child-rearing anniversaries, including the "guardian's record" of the maternal and child health 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, etc., it supports the creation of an environment where users can give birth and raise children with peace of mind even in emergencies, such as by being able to immediately deliver important information, such as caution information from municipalities and advice from public health nurses, to those who need it via text and video through the app.
<Comment from Mayor Minoru Yaguchi of Ikeda Town, Nagano Prefecture>
Ikeda Town has set "a town where resilient children who will pioneer the future grow up" as the basic goal of its comprehensive plan, and with the "Children in the Middle Support Supporter Declaration" prioritizing the healthy and happy growth of children, we are working to improve the child-rearing environment.
We have launched this "Ikeda Kodomo ga Mannaka Navi" to enhance support for the pregnant and child-rearing generations, so please utilize it as a tool for enjoyable child-rearing.
<Main Features of "Ikeda Kodomo ga Mannaka Navi">
[Guidance on Various Systems and Services Provided by the Municipality]
● Information on various subsidy systems appropriate for the pregnancy and child-rearing periods, such as the children's medical expenses subsidy system and child allowance, and guidance on procedures
● Various notices distributed by the municipality
[Recording and Management]
● Physical condition and weight records during pregnancy (graphed)
● Fetal and child growth records (graphed)
● Confirmation of the degree of obesity and thinness using height and weight curves (graphed)
● Vaccinations: Automatic display of standard vaccination dates, management of vaccination schedules and actual records,
Alerts to prevent missed vaccinations
● Health checkup information: Records health checkup data of pregnant women and children
[Information Provision and Advice]
● Basic information on childbirth and child-rearing
● Knowledge and advice tailored to the number of weeks of pregnancy and the child's age in months
● Videos on how to bathe and make baby food
● Guidance on surrounding facilities (hospitals, kindergartens/nursery schools, parks, child-rearing facilities, etc.)
[Childcare Diary: I Did It Anniversary]
● Record the child's growth together with photos
● Upload photos on anniversaries using the "first anniversary template" with dates and words (can record about 150 items such as first... fetal movement / kick / rolling over / sitting up / crawling / standing alone / walking alone, etc.)
[Data Sharing]
● Children's growth records and health data can be viewed on family members' smartphones, etc., and can also be posted on SNS
Our company has set a vision of reducing the coefficient of friction related to pregnancy and child-rearing to zero. Towards this realization, we are promoting the further expansion and coordination of support areas (checkups for pregnant and nursing mothers, vaccinations, infant checkups, etc.) through "Child-rearing DX®"*2, the development of an all-one-stop application and procedure system related to child-rearing, and the coordination of maternal and child health information with relevant institutions (medical care, childcare/education, specialized institutions, etc.). Through this, we aim to reduce the "anxiety and burden" of parents and co-create an "safe and simple" child-rearing society with the community.
Service Name: Ikeda Kodomo ga Mannaka Navi
Monthly Fee (tax included): Free
Access Method
・App: Search for "Boshimo" on the App Store or Google Play
(Supported OS: Android 8.0 or higher, iOS 15.0 or higher)
・Web Browser: Access https://www.mchh.jp
*Available even to those who do not live in the target municipality, but please check the official website for information on your municipality of residence.
*Some of the available functions vary depending on the municipality in which you reside.
*1: Children and Families Agency Website "Reference Materials for the 2025 Basic Policy on the Promotion of Children's Policy DX"
*2: Click here for details on the "Child-rearing DX®" service https://www.mchh.jp/boshimo-kosodatedx
* "Child-rearing DX" is a registered trademark of Boshimo Inc.
* Google Play and Android are trademarks or registered trademarks of Google LLC.
* App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc.
* iOS is an OS name of Apple Inc. iOS is a trademark or registered trademark of Cisco Systems, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and other countries, and is used under license.