Stories
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Expanding Expertise and Representation on Medic’s Board of Directors
For more than ten years, Medic has evolved and matured as we build and apply technology that helps health workers deliver equitable care. We believe technology and data can help expedite progress towards, and even achieve Universal Health Coverage,
Welcoming Dr. Krishna Jafa, Medic’s Incoming CEO
Introducing Dr. Krishna Jafa as Medic’s CEO – a physician, epidemiologist, and public health executive with 25 years of deep expertise in health system design and strengthening, digital health innovation, and complex global partnerships in public health.
On the road to precision community health: How the Community Health Toolkit can support data quality at the platform level 
Author: Chrisgone Adede, Senior Researcher, Data Science Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly recognized for their contributions in increasing access to health care services and healthcare seeking-behaviors, as well as improving clinical outcomes given their proximity to the communities they serve. Digital tools have been noted to provide the opportunity
Strengthening health systems together: Announcing an official partnership between OpenHIE and Medic
Post author: Samuel Mbuthia, Head of Community Interoperable systems work together, even if they were not designed specifically to do so, because standard communication protocol techniques – such as Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR) – are applied. All patient information can be seen, exchanged, and used across different platforms. To
Case study: Using AfyaSTAT, a Community Health Toolkit (CHT)-powered app to enable HIV testing within facility and community settings in Kenya
Overview of partnership In March 2020, when COVID-19 had not fully established itself in Kenya, an opportunity emerged for Medic and Palladium Kenya to not only co-develop an integrated COVID-19 surveillance system with the Ministry of Health (MoH) and other stakeholders, but also to exchange knowledge between the two organizations