Maternal and Child Health Handbook App 'Boshimo' Launches in Otoineppu Village, Hokkaido!

The maternal and child health handbook app 'Boshimo,' operated by Boshimo Inc., has been introduced in Otoineppu Village, Nakagawa District, Hokkaido, and is being provided as 'muranoko' starting Wednesday, April 1. In response to villagers' requests to 'create an environment where children can grow up healthy,' Otoineppu Village aims to be a village where people can give birth and raise children with peace of mind by establishing a system that supports the entire process of pregnancy, childbirth, and child-rearing. This time, 'Boshimo,' which allows the data of the paper maternal and child health handbook to be recorded as digital data and has been introduced in over 830 municipalities, has been adopted. Its operation will begin in accordance with the Children and Families Agency's policy to utilize electronic maternal and child health handbooks and promote maternal and child health DX. 'Boshimo' is an app that easily supports the management of vaccination schedules and health checkup results, as well as the distribution of local information, via 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 disasters, and it also supports continuous use when moving to another municipality or changing devices, ensuring safe and long-term use. ## The provision of 'Boshimo' begins in Otoineppu Village, Hokkaido, which provides seamless support from childbirth to the child-rearing period! In Otoineppu Village, as an initiative to celebrate the birth of children across the village, a birth congratulatory money of 30,000 yen per newborn is provided. In addition, the village provides long-term support for child-rearing families by implementing economic assistance tailored to the child's growth stage, such as fully subsidizing partial out-of-pocket medical expenses for children from infancy through high school. Furthermore, a variety of measures are in place to support the healthy growth of children, such as ensuring a safe travel environment from infancy through the free lending of child seats. This time, in order to make it more convenient for child-rearing households to utilize the village's initiatives, 'Boshimo' was adopted as a new tool for disseminating child-rearing information. ## Thorough support for pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare with a community-based child-rearing app! 'muranoko,' adopted by Otoineppu Village, is a service compatible with smartphones, tablets, and PCs. It is packed with convenient features that help busy mothers and fathers with childcare and work, such as recording and managing health data for expectant and nursing mothers and children, managing vaccination schedules, providing advice on childbirth and childcare, sharing functions with family members such as grandparents living far away, and notifying them of local information distributed by the village. 'Dekitayo Kinenbi' (I Did It Anniversary), which can be used as a childcare diary, is 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 'Guardian's Record' of the maternal and child health handbook, with photos and messages, and also serves as a guideline for the child'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 the local government and advice from public health nurses can be immediately delivered to those who need it via text or video through the app, supporting the creation of an environment where people can give birth and raise children with peace of mind even in emergencies. ##

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