TY - JOUR T1 - Reporta Health: a mobile social innovation for crowdsourcing data on illegal health facilities in Nigeria JF - BMJ Innovations JO - BMJ Innov SP - 137 LP - 142 DO - 10.1136/bmjinnov-2021-000878 VL - 8 IS - 3 AU - Olusesan Ayodeji Makinde AU - Utibe S Ebong AU - Nchelem Kokomma Ichegbo AU - Mustapha Omotosho Y1 - 2022/07/01 UR - http://innovations.bmj.com/content/8/3/137.abstract N2 - What are the new findings?Master facility lists/health facility registries recommended for countries to have by the WHO can be extended to mobile apps to provide location-based services to citizens on health facilities.Innovative health facility mobile apps can facilitate crowdsourcing of data on illegal health facilities which are difficult to gather in low-income and middle-income countries as proposed in Nigeria.How might it impact on healthcare in the future?Crowdsourced data can reduce administrative costs associated with the identification of illegally operating health facilities thereby improving efficiency.Publicly available rating of health facilities through the app can influence citizens on which facility to choose for their care and thus force health facilities to improve on quality of care including services that improve client satisfaction.The WHO advocates for countries to develop Master Facility Lists (MFL) to provide authoritative lists of legal health facilities in each country.1 Nigeria has developed its MFL and established a Health Facility Registry (HFR) to actively manage this list.2–4 Despite this effort, there are still several unregistered or illegally operating health facilities across the country.Between January and June 2019, not fewer than four state governments identified and shut several illegally operating health facilities within their territories.5–8 The problem of illegal health facilities remains a pressing issue due to their relatively large number and limited resources to track them. Only 13.4% (2565 out of 20 642) of the patent and proprietary medicine vendor shops surveyed in an earlier study were registered with the regulatory agency.9 The risks are that many of these illegal health facilities may be providing suboptimal services to their clients such as inappropriate use of antibiotics, abuse of drugs and suboptimal quality of care.10–12 Nigeria is a vast country with limited human and financial resources to police for illegal health facilities. Providing an opportunity for the general population to report unregistered … ER -