This Thursday will be the first Change meeting of the quarter. We will begin with an introduction to the seminar and short organizational discussion. This will be followed by a talk by Noah Perin of PATH who will discuss his work on the Mobile Midwife project, which leverages technology for the improvement of maternal and newborn health. *The Mobile Midwife is a mobile device platform for use by health providers on the front lines of the community health system. It provides active clinical decision support and monitoring, management of patient history and information, and serves as a vehicle for communication and education.* * The Mobile Midwife was built using Open Data Kit (ODK), an open- source collection of tools created to build information services for developing regions. Using ODK, an existing ARTH-administered postnatal care program will be adapted to run on the device. It will provide clinical decision support, patient information management, and patient education in a handheld device accessible to rural clinic and home settings. Currently the team is identifying requirements for community-based postnatal care, and building prototypes and will be testing the device among nurse midwives in the Udaipur district in India this spring. The planned study will test the assertions that the device can increase efficiency and compliance with global best practices and integrate seamlessly into existing workflows. * *This project is a partnership composed of PATH; Action, Research, and Training in Health (ARTH); and the University of Washington’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering.* Please join us for sandwiches, and to learn more about the Mobile Midwife project! *What:* Welcome to Change and Noah Perin on the Mobile Midwife Project *When:* Thursday, March 31st at noon *Where:* Paul Allen Center, Room 203