Physical Examination

After taking a history, the app prompts the CHW to review their Universal safety Precautions needs. Universal safety precautions are medical procedures which needs the healthcare worker to avoid contact with patient’s bodily fluids or not transfer own or any infection as a result of clinical case evaluation, to the patient. These include such as washing of hands, wearing of protective clothing, decontamination of equipment and devices, proper, swift and clinically correct disposal of biomedical waste.

Then the CHW, being trained in systemic examination, identifies the location and knows the functioning to particular part/ organ involved and proceeds to a detailed physical examination as prompted by the app. For each set of common medical conditions there are a fixed and dynamic set of physical examinations prompts available. There are 140+ different variations of the physical examination protocols available.