{"id":44322,"key":"Global_Health_Medical_Device_Compendium/EPartogram","title":"Global Health Medical Device Compendium/EPartogram","latest":{"id":1267888,"timestamp":"2026-09-10T14:55:34Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Epartogram.png|thumb]]\n\n{{GHMDC device data\n| health-topic = Maternal mortality\n| classification = Preventative, Diagnosis\n| made = No\n| replicated = No\n| manufacturer-location = Maryland, United States\n}}\n\nMaternal death rates are often high in resource-poor settings because of inefficient and inaccurate labor assessment and delayed complication management. The paper partogram, although a useful tool for monitoring and assessing the progress of labor, remains cumbersome and time-consuming.\n\n== Detailed description of the solution ==\n\nThe ePartogram is an affordable, easy-to-operate, efficient and comprehensive electronic alternative to the paper partogram. It is a hand-held device that allows for more efficient recording of clinical observations, more accurate predictions of complications, and more rapid decision-making. It includes a sensor module for partial automation of data collection and a telemedicine module that allows midwives to obtain support and guidance from distant senior-level clinicians. Thus, the ePartogram supports front-line workers and brings essential services to women.\n\n== Designed by ==\n\n* Designed by: Jhpiego Corportion, Johns Hopkins University Center for Bio-Engineering Innovation and Design, Laerdal Global Health\n* Manufacturer location: Baltimore, Maryland, USA\n\n== When and where it was tested/implemented ==\n\nLab or bench testing will take place mainly in Baltimore, MD, while field testing is likely to take place in Kenya.\n \n\n== Funding Source ==\n\nSaving Lives at Birth: Grand Challenge for Development\n\n== References ==\n\n=== Peer-reviewed publication ===\n\nePartogram. (n.d.). Johns Hopkins University Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design.\nRetrieved November 14, 2012 from [http://eng.jhu.edu/wse/cbid/page/epartogram here].\n\nePartogram. (2011, April 25). Tech Briefs: Create the Future Design Contest 2012. Retrieved\nNovember 14, 2012 from [http://contest.techbriefs.com/medical-2011/1247 here].\n\nGlobal: Field-Testing Electronic Lifesaving Tool for Prevention and Management of Complications\nduring Labor. (n.d.). Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Center for Adolescent\nHealth. Retrieved November 14, 2012 from [http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/center-for-adolescent-health/research/project_page.html?gf_id=4591&project_id=8358 here].\n\n=== Externally generated reports ===\n\nE-Partogram. (2012, May 16). Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development. Retrieved\nNovember 14, 2012 from [http://web.archive.org/web/20160507201350/https://savinglivesatbirth.net/summaries/35 here].\n\nThe Innovators—Neonatal Technologies Forum. (n.d.). National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. Retrieved November 14, 2012 from [http://web.archive.org/web/20120421180438/http://nciia.org/neonatalforum/innovators here].\n\n{{Page data\n| sdg = SDG03 Good health and well-being, SDG09 Industry innovation and infrastructure\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| language = en\n| description = The ePartogram improves birth outcomes. Appropedia explains how this tool helps caregivers monitor labor more effectively.\n}}"}