Written in collaboration with Gareth Bowen (Chief Architect), and Bede Ngaruko (Quality Assurance Engineer). Software defects, also known as “bugs”, are unexpected behavior in software due to inadvertent errors in the code. The severity of these defects can go from minor visual disruptions that have workarounds, to critical defects that […]
Post authored by Kanika Malik, one of Medic’s former Project Managers based in New Delhi. Pictured above (left to right) Jacqueline Edwards, Brian Ssennoga, Chris Lukolyo, Kanika Malik, and Michael Korir In what is becoming a tradition for our team, Medic teammates participated in the 2019 ICT4D Conference in Kampala last month.
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The 88 teammates that make up Medic Mobile are spread across 11 countries, 33 cities, and 5 continents. This means we spend a lot of time in the air, traveling across the globe on long-haul flights so we can collaborate in person. For our first full team meet up last
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Post authored by Francesca Garrett, Medic’s Community of Practice Manager. In the hours before the Special Olympics World Games Abu Dhabi 2019, Medic Mobile, the stewards of the Community Health Toolkit, joined over 100 global health leaders at the Global Inclusive Health Forum. Together, they made a commitment to equip 10,0000 community
Post authored by Michael Kohn, Medic’s Product Lead for Data and Analytics. Above, a community health worker in Siaya County, Kenya holds up paper logbook during a review meeting at the health facility. These days system interoperability is front and center in the ongoing conversation about digital health. With tens of
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Last month, seventeen Medic Mobile teammates from twelve cities and three countries came together in Montgomery, Alabama. Thanks to an extremely generous offer from one of our funders, our team was presented with the unique opportunity to visit the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and the National Memorial to Peace and Justice.
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Interview conducted and reviewed by Nitin Bhandari, Deployment Manager. Pictured above, Manoj Khadka at our full team meetup in Diani, Kenya. At Medic, Senior Project Managers implement and manage deployments and partnerships alongside key partners including government health systems and INGOs. They provide support, meet deliverables, and assist with project deployments. They also
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Post authored by Gareth Bowen, Medic’s Chief Architect. Medic Mobile is thrilled to announce the release of the next major version of the Community Health Application Framework: 3.0.0. We’re particularly excited about this release as it greatly improves much of the critical infrastructure that runs the software. While it may seem like little has
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Post authored by our Asia Design Team. Pictured above: Director of Delivery, Ranju Sharma, sketching mockups in our Kathmandu office. Medic Mobile has equipped over 6,200 Female Community Health Volunteers in Nepal with SMS-based mHealth tools for maternal and child care coordination in partnership with Ministry of Health. This feature-phone
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Post authored by Beatrice Wasunna, Senior Researcher. The figure above shows Muso’s 360° Supervision system to actively and regularly mentor Community Health Workers for improved performance. Our research and model-building partner Muso has achieved some of the lowest child mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa, and we’re excited to share the results of a study that Muso and the