Table 1 Features of the existing CommCare mobile platform and new features added in the CCS platform

Form Creation: Form builder Interface or upload XLS form

Registration and name based tracking of beneficiaries – pregnant women and children below 6 years of age

Workforce Management: Creating, managing and monitoring frontline workers and their day-to-day application usage

Automatic scheduling of home visits for the frontline workers

Case Management: Creating a case and tracking through various forms

Automatic generation of list of children due for immunization

Multimedia Integration: Images, Audio, Video

Interactive checklist and counseling protocols to promote and gather maternal and child health in the continuum

Language: Local Language Support

Animated videos as job aids for providing inter personal communication

Logics and Calculations

Tools to compute expected date of delivery, body mass index, child growth standards

Reports: Basic interface reports and via email configuring

Convergence and case sharing between health (MoHFW) and nutrition (MoWCD) departments at service delivery level

Export Formats: XLS, CSV, ZIP

Data driven supportive supervision for periodical review and monitoring

Messaging Compatibility: SMS, IVR

Synchronization of frontline worker activities with supervisor to enable indicators based monitoring through CloudCare

Application Programming Interface (API) Access

Activities based approach and effortless data recording of each beneficiary in the continuum