Comments on: Smart Delivery with SmartVouchers http://ictdchick.com/blog/2007/05/25/smart-delivery-with-smartvouchers/ musings and meanderings of a multi-disciplinary researcher learning about information technology use in developing regions Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:51:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: melissa http://ictdchick.com/blog/2007/05/25/smart-delivery-with-smartvouchers/comment-page-1/#comment-3 melissa Thu, 31 May 2007 12:58:13 +0000 http://ictdchick.com/blog/?p=5#comment-3 Actually - it is not just the photo on the front, it is also the photo in their database, which appears when the card is scanned. In addition, each service provider has a list of "revoked" identities, which they can use to determine if the card is till valid. With respect to the maternity ante-natal care program, we expect there to be less fraud because service is offered for a course of 9 months, and shared use of the cards is easily trackable - patient/mother history is included in the database, fraud would require that the card be "shared" by a mother with the same development stage - and then the mother wouldn't be able to access care for the next visit, and risks losing care for the entire duration of the pregnancy. QRCode is a good potential modification to the voucher system (for OBA, not the antenatal program). I think the main difference between the two ideas is that the antenatal program requires a long-running id, and the voucher program is essentially point-of-care single visit management rather than ID-based. And to clarify - the health insurance program that uses the smartcards currently (the one with the photo ids) is another program entirely separate from the two described above. Actually – it is not just the photo on the front, it is also the photo in their database, which appears when the card is scanned. In addition, each service provider has a list of “revoked” identities, which they can use to determine if the card is till valid.

With respect to the maternity ante-natal care program, we expect there to be less fraud because service is offered for a course of 9 months, and shared use of the cards is easily trackable – patient/mother history is included in the database, fraud would require that the card be “shared” by a mother with the same development stage – and then the mother wouldn’t be able to access care for the next visit, and risks losing care for the entire duration of the pregnancy.

QRCode is a good potential modification to the voucher system (for OBA, not the antenatal program). I think the main difference between the two ideas is that the antenatal program requires a long-running id, and the voucher program is essentially point-of-care single visit management rather than ID-based.

And to clarify – the health insurance program that uses the smartcards currently (the one with the photo ids) is another program entirely separate from the two described above.

]]> By: Paul http://ictdchick.com/blog/2007/05/25/smart-delivery-with-smartvouchers/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Paul Sun, 27 May 2007 00:30:52 +0000 http://ictdchick.com/blog/?p=5#comment-2 I don't get it - the only thing that seems to prevent you from "reselling" the prepaid services represented by the smartcard is the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/melissaho/514510268/" rel="nofollow">color photo on the front</a>. (As compared to a paper voucher, I mean. And it seems like you could print photos on paper vouchers as well, in which case a cameraphone with QRcode software would be adequate to document voucher use as opposed to a smartphone with a smartcard reader.) And this doesn't seem to solve the kind of collusion-based fraud problems that were brought up in the discussions after Lakshmi's trip, though maybe those are not serious problems in this country? I don’t get it – the only thing that seems to prevent you from “reselling” the prepaid services represented by the smartcard is the color photo on the front. (As compared to a paper voucher, I mean. And it seems like you could print photos on paper vouchers as well, in which case a cameraphone with QRcode software would be adequate to document voucher use as opposed to a smartphone with a smartcard reader.) And this doesn’t seem to solve the kind of collusion-based fraud problems that were brought up in the discussions after Lakshmi’s trip, though maybe those are not serious problems in this country?

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