1 How eCompliance Works Electronic Reporting System Online SMS Gateway Patients, Health Worker & Program Manager Dose missed! eCompliance Tablet Front End Back End The Front End Uses only off-the-shelf components  A fingerprint reader  An Android Tablet The Back End SMS Gateway for Sending Alerts Electronic Medical Record System Central Database SMS Encrypted Data

2 PATIENT AND COMMUNITY LEVEL Positive impact on the psyche Improves motivation Seen as dedication towards quality treatment Interest generated by technology intervention in disadvantaged areas Re-enforces belief in the government and DOTS Indirect benefit- discussion of health issues AT LEVEL OF FIELD STAFF Ensures integrity of DOTS: eliminates unsupervised doses, which are otherwise the norm across the world Eliminates human errors in management of DOTS. For example, if a patient comes on the wrong day, eCompliance automatically reminds the counselors and prevents such occurrences Improves skills Makes counseling easy, ie. easier to convince patients Accurate reporting and up-to-date intelligence – Eliminates human error Saves time spent in going through paper records Real-time records allows counselors to target counseling Produces all reports automatically. The above results in 30% improvement in productivity and reduction of costs, which more than pays for the cost of eCompliance terminals. The Key Benefits of eCompliance

3 MANAGEMENT LEVEL Accuracy of records Transparency An accurate platform for monitoring and evaluation of the core program – Eliminates absenteeism, late coming of staff – Prevents tampering with patient data Transparent treatment supervision Ensures proper payment of performance based incentives THE PUBLIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVE ENSURES DOTS is being delivered Halts the development of drug resistance due to default. Provides unlimited quality data for future research