About Us
Building tools for people who care.
Medic builds world-class, open-source software that supports health workers delivering equitable care that reaches everyone. Human-centered at our core, we value creativity, initiative, collaboration, and trust. Our global team of innovators is 90+ strong, dispersed across more than 14 countries, 32 cities, and all time zones. We create resources, build documentation, and offer support to a growing community of partners and builders working to improve health in the hardest-to-reach communities.
We are part of a global movement advancing health for all.
Medic serves as the technical steward and a core contributor to the Community Health Toolkit (CHT), an open-source platform that supports health workers as they provide essential care in their own communities. We are part of a movement for global health equity aimed at changing how health systems work and how technology powers those systems.
Mission
Advance good health, human flourishing, and equitable care for and with the hardest-to-reach communities. We build and apply open-source digital tools that help health workers deliver just, quality care to their neighbors and community.
Vision
We envision a more just world in which health workers are supported as they provide care for their communities, where universal health coverage is a reality, and health is a secured human right – for everyone, everywhere, always.
What we value
- Humanity: Human-centered everything.
- Creativity: Bring the right things into existence.
- Solidarity: Building equitable community health systems together.
- Openness: From code to communication, collaboration is key.
- Initiative: Self-motivated to take action.
RECENT STORIES
Revolutionizing Healthcare Coordination: Unlocking the Power of Interoperability
In part one of our interoperability series, we explored how interoperability is crucial not only in exponentially digital societies, but specifically within healthcare to ensure better care coordination and service delivery. Medic’s journey to create an interoperability layer in the
Exploring the Developer Landscape: CHT Applications Developer Survey 2023
As technical steward of the Community Health Toolkit (CHT), Medic is dedicated to ensuring a thriving global community of practice is empowered to independently build, modify, sustain, and scale CHT-based apps enabling high-quality, equitable care for communities around the world.
Interoperability in Digital Healthcare
The importance of interoperability in the health sector and how other systems can communicate with the CHT In line with an exponentially digital world, the digital health space has equally grown in the past decade. Globally, the systems created today