An Informatics Framework for Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Monitoring

Most cases of maternal deaths could be avoided with timely access to quality healthcare, but a key challenge in addressing quality of care in maternal health, is the lack of accurate data. We present a review of the difficulties of collecting and analyzing maternal health data. We propose a comprehensive informatics monitoring framework to track progress on the achievement of the international targets and priorities toward ending preventable maternal mortality and improving maternal and child health, that at the same time builds capacity at institutional and country level to collect indicators and to generate actionable and comparable knowledge that facilitates analysis, research, and evidence-based decision making.