Mobile-based Applications for Newborn Care.

We read with interest the ‘Journal Club’ section in the September 2016 issue of Indian Pediatrics, which commented on a randomized controlled trial on association between the Safe Delivery App and quality of care and perinatal survival in Ethiopia [1]. The commentary from an evidence-based-medicine viewpoint [2] rightly suggests that there are limited randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews on the efficacy of m-health, but we disagree with the viewpoint mentioned in the neonatologist’s perspective [3] that the utility of a mobile-based application is limited, and it cannot be applied to the current health system.