1. Bliss 4 Midwives 2015-2016
Cordaid
Simavi
TNO
ReliTech
Enviu
INTRODUCTION

2. Ensuring the survival, health and well-being of women,
children and adolescents is essential to ending extreme
poverty, promoting development and resilience, and
achieving all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

4. TNO Shared Development Program
From the Digital Doctors Bag
to Bliss4Midwives
Michiel Oderwald, MSc
Maurits van der Heiden, MSc
Revolutionizing diagnostics at the First Point of Care
2.0
INNOVATION

6. IMPACT
• Improve quality of care
• Reduction integral cost of care:
• Emergency relief with less costs for labs
• Less work pressure on hospital labs for simple tests,
cost saving for patient and institution
• Early diagnosis, detection and early start of treatment
of life-threatening conditions => resulting in reduction
of maternal and infant case fatality
• Monitoring of Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in
the community
• .

7. • Specifications requirements users Jan – June 2015
• Prototype development, hardware and software Jan – Nov 2015
• Clearance Medical-ethical research committee Ghana Oct-Dec 2015
• Training of batch of midwives and technician in Ghana Feb 2016
• Development of business model March-June
• Test prototypes Ghana March – Sept
• Analysis, evaluation, reporting, planning Oct-Dec 2016
PLANNING & ACTIVITY

8. Life Sciences
& Health for
Development
LS&H4D
•Netherlands
Enterprise Agency
•RVO
LS&H4D

9. Netherlands Ghana
NGO
SIMAVI
ENVIU
ACDEP
PHS-N
Company TNO
RELI-TECH BV
Government DISTRICT
AUTHORITY
BOLGATANGA
Bliss4Midwives PPP

10. Netherlands Ghana
NGO
SIMAVI
ENVIU
ACDEP
PHS-N
Company TNO
RELI-TECH BV
Government DISTRICT
AUTHORITY
BOLGATANGA
Bliss4Midwives PPP