Maternal and Child Health Handbook App 'Boshi-mo' Launches Service in Kanan Town, Osaka Prefecture!

Boshi-mo Co., Ltd.'s Maternal and Child Health Handbook App 'Boshi-mo' has been introduced in Kanan Town, Minamikawachi District, Osaka Prefecture, and will commence services as the 'Kanan Child-rearing App' from Friday, May 1st. Kanan Town's fundamental philosophy is "A town that connects child-rearing and children's smiles amidst greenery," and it is actively promoting the creation of a child-friendly town where children's energetic voices and smiles abound amidst rich nature. This time, 'Boshi-mo,' which digitizes data from paper maternal and child health handbooks and has been adopted by over 870 municipalities, was selected. Its operation aligns with the Child and Family Agency's policy on utilizing electronic maternal and child health handbooks and promoting maternal and child health DX (Digital Transformation)※1. 'Boshi-mo' is an app that easily supports vaccination schedules, health checkup results 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 relocating to another municipality or changing devices, allowing users to continue using it with peace of mind. ◆ 'Boshi-mo' Launches Service in Kanan Town, Osaka Prefecture, Known for Diverse Policies Supporting Both Children and Parents! Kanan Town implements the "Maternity Support Project (Mama-Sapo)," where pregnant women and parents can consult with midwives and public health nurses about pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare concerns via phone, counter, or home visits. Furthermore, it offers the "Postpartum Care Project (Karugamo Care)," providing childcare support at designated medical institutions for mothers and babies with health or parenting anxieties. Through seamless policies tailored to each household's situation from pregnancy to childcare, Kanan Town provides extensive support to all parenting families. This time, 'Boshi-mo' was adopted as a new tool for disseminating childcare information, aiming to make the town's initiatives more conveniently accessible to parenting households. ◆ Comprehensive Support for Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Child-rearing with a Community-Based Child-rearing App! 'Kanan Child-rearing App,' adopted by Kanan Town, is a service compatible with smartphones, tablets, and PCs. It is equipped with a wealth of convenient functions that assist busy mothers and fathers with childcare and work, such as recording and managing health data for pregnant women and children, managing vaccination schedules, providing advice on childbirth and childcare, a sharing function with family members like grandparents living in distant areas, and notifying users of local information distributed by the town. The "Dekitayo Kinenbi" (I Did It Anniversary) feature, which can be used as a childcare diary, was created based on the Child and Family Agency's maternal and child health handbook format examples. It not only allows users to record developmental stages and childcare milestones, including the "Parent's Record" section of the maternal and child health handbook, with photos and messages, but also serves as a guide for children's growth and development. Furthermore, even when social environmental changes occur due to factors like infectious diseases, the app can instantly deliver important information such as alerts 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 childbirth and childcare can be carried out with peace of mind even in emergencies. Kanan Town has been striving to provide seamless support from pregnancy to childbirth and childcare for all pregnant women and others, through consultations and continuous information dissemination, to create an environment where all children can grow up healthy, aiming for "a town that connects child-rearing and children's smiles amidst greenery" as part of the 3rd Kanan Town Child and Child-rearing Support Business Plan. This time, as one of these initiatives, we have launched the 'Kanan Child-rearing App' to deliver childcare support information. With features such as an electronic maternal and child health handbook and automatic vaccination schedule creation, families can share their children's growth records. Please make use of the 'Kanan Child-rearing App,' which embodies our wish for families to be able to give birth and raise children with peace of mind in Kanan Town.

【Guidance on various systems and services provided by the municipality】 ● Information on various subsidy systems and application procedures tailored to pregnancy and childcare periods, such as the child medical expense subsidy system and child allowance. ● Various notifications distributed by the municipality. 【Record and Management】 ● Recording pregnancy condition and weight (graph visualization). ● Recording fetal and child growth (graph visualization). ● Checking obesity/thinness levels using height and weight curves (graph visualization). ● Vaccinations: Automatic display of standard vaccination dates, management of scheduled and actual vaccinations, reminder alerts for missed vaccinations. ● Health checkup information: Recording health checkup data for pregnant women and children. 【Information Provision and Advice】 ● Basic information on childbirth and childcare. ● Knowledge and advice tailored to pregnancy week and child's age. ● Videos on bathing and making baby food. ● Guidance on nearby facilities (hospitals, kindergartens/nursery schools, parks, childcare facilities, etc.). 【Child-rearing Diary: Dekitayo Kinenbi】