Maternal & Public Health

Program-ready notes for maternal and community health teams

Antenatal and postnatal contacts, immunisation sessions, nutrition screening, PMTCT and community outreach — captured once, in a form your register and your program indicators can both use.

Maternal and community public health work carries a documentation burden that clinical software rarely acknowledges. A single antenatal contact generates a clinical record, an entry in the antenatal register, data for the facility monthly summary, and often indicators for a ministry or donor reporting line. The same is true of an immunisation session, a growth-monitoring day, a PMTCT visit or a community outreach round. Health workers therefore write the same information three or four times, usually after the session has ended and usually from memory, and the quality of national health data suffers as a direct result. ScribeMDPro's Maternal and Public Health profile is built for those contacts. It structures the visit around the fields the program actually needs — gestational age and parity, danger signs, IPTp and tetanus doses, iron and folate supply, HIV and syphilis screening status, birth preparedness, immunisation antigens with batch and site, MUAC and weight-for-age classification, referral made and referral outcome — and produces a clean clinical note plus a short indicator summary from one conversation. It works offline, because outreach happens where connectivity does not, and syncs when the device returns to coverage. Nothing is auto-submitted anywhere: the health worker reviews and approves every record.

Documentation challenges we solve

  • The same antenatal or immunisation contact is written into a card, a register and a monthly summary, three times over
  • Program indicators (IPTp doses, TT status, PMTCT screening, MUAC classification) are buried in prose and hard to aggregate
  • Outreach and community sessions happen without reliable network or power, so notes are written hours later from memory
  • Danger-sign screening and referral outcomes are inconsistently documented, weakening maternal death audits
  • Community health workers document in the language of the encounter but report in English, French or Portuguese

What clinicians gain

  • Antenatal and postnatal contacts structured to WHO-aligned contact schedules with danger-sign screening built in
  • Immunisation sessions capture antigen, dose number, site, batch and adverse-event follow-up
  • Nutrition contacts record weight, height, MUAC and classification with the referral decision attached
  • An indicator summary is generated alongside the clinical note, so register entry becomes transcription rather than recall
  • Full offline capture with encrypted local storage and sync on reconnection, for outreach and hard-to-reach settings

How it works

  1. Step 1
    Start ambient capture

    Open ScribeMDPro before the maternal and public health encounter and start recording — the patient never has to talk to a device.

  2. Step 2
    Focus on the patient

    Conduct your normal history and exam. Run the contact exactly as your program protocol requires — the profile listens for the fields your register needs.

  3. Step 3
    Auto-drafted note

    A structured SOAP note appears seconds after the visit ends, formatted for your specialty.

  4. Step 4
    Review, sign, export

    Edit inline, copy to your EMR, download as PDF, or push through supported integrations.

Example SOAP output

S: 24yo G2P1+0, ANC contact 4 at 30 weeks 2 days by early scan. No headache, no blurred vision, no epigastric pain, no bleeding, no leaking of liquor. Good fetal movements. Sleeps under an insecticide-treated net nightly. Taking iron-folate daily.
O: Weight 63 kg (+1.5 kg). BP 112/70. Temp 36.8 C. PCV 33%. Fundal height 30 cm, longitudinal lie, cephalic, fetal heart 142 bpm. No pedal oedema. Urinalysis: no protein, no glucose. HIV negative at booking, syphilis non-reactive, hepatitis B negative.
A: Normal progress of pregnancy at 30 weeks in a multigravida. No pre-eclampsia features. Mild anaemia improving on supplementation.
P: IPTp-SP third dose given under observation. Td dose 3 given, left deltoid. Iron-folate 60 mg/0.4 mg daily continued, 4-week supply dispensed. Birth preparedness reviewed: facility delivery, transport, funds and blood donor identified. Danger signs counselled with return-immediately instruction. Next contact at 34 weeks. Indicators: ANC4 achieved, IPTp3 given, Td3 given, ITN in use, HIV and syphilis screening complete.

Illustrative only. Clinicians retain final responsibility for the record.

Frequently asked questions

Which program contacts does this profile support?

Antenatal and postnatal contacts, primary-level delivery summaries, family planning counselling, routine immunisation sessions, growth monitoring and nutrition screening, PMTCT, TB DOTS contacts and community outreach rounds.

Does it produce data I can enter into the national register?

It produces an indicator summary alongside the clinical note — contact number, doses given, screening status, classification and referral outcome — so register and DHIS2-style entry becomes copying rather than recall. It does not submit to any national system on your behalf.

Does it work during outreach with no network?

Yes. Consultations are captured and stored encrypted on the device and sync automatically when connectivity returns, so nothing is lost if the session ends offline.

Can community health workers use it in local languages?

Yes. The contact can be conducted in Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Swahili, French, Portuguese or any other supported language, and the written record is produced in the reporting language your program uses.

Is patient data shared with any program or donor automatically?

No. Records belong to the clinician and their facility, and nothing is transmitted to a program, ministry or donor unless the facility explicitly exports it.

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