Philip Mwago

Passionate about digital health.

'This squad reminded me that the CHT isn't just software. It's people.' Black and white headshots of Mtuchi Evans (OpenFn) and Raphael Kenyuri (ICRC) from the CHT x DHIS2 Interoperability Squad.

Building Together: The Squads Shaping the Future of the CHT

In December 2024, a group of organizations realized that they shared the same critical need: interoperability between the Community Health Toolkit (CHT) and DHIS2, a widely adopted reporting platform. Rather than working in silos, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), OpenFn, Living Goods, Swiss Tropical and Public Health

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Tracking patients across points of care: Interoperability between OpenMRS and the Community Health Toolkit

Medic is bridging the gap between digital healthcare systems to improve patient care. Technical Product Owner Phil Mwago explains how.  At the Global Digital Health Forum in December 2023, I spoke about how, as the number of digital healthcare solutions increases, so does the need to ensure that these solutions are all

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CHT Interoperability Reference Application: Adoption by Ministry of Health Kenya to Facilitate Data Exchange

Interoperability assumes paramount importance in the ever-evolving and ever-expanding digital health ecosystem; users adopt systems tailored to their specific needs. For example, data collected in a resource-limited setting may resemble data collected in a well-resourced environment, yet the employed systems can differ substantially. Therefore, there exists no one-size-fits-all approach capable

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Collaborating for Better Health Systems: Announcing Our Renewed Partnership with OpenHIE

In the past decade, there has been a concerted effort to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of data exchange within digital systems. This drive for improved data interoperability is particularly crucial in the digital health ecosystem – various systems are integral to supporting patient care delivery within their unique use

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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 Community Health Toolkit (CHT) – leveraging Open Health Information Mediator

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