Community Health

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. We are committed to continuous improvement driven directly from our …

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Interoperability in Digital Healthcare

Community Health, Product / By Njuguna Ndung'u

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 serve communities and patients in both low-resource and high-resource settings. …

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Advancing care through collaborative partnerships

Community Health, Impact / By Jeff Jacobs

At Medic, we collaborate with public and private implementing technical partners, local governments and communities, and Ministries of Health to work toward nationally adopted electronic Community Health Information Systems (eCHIS). eCHISs can increase efficiency and effectiveness of Community Health Workers (CHWs) providing doorstep care. The theme for UHC Day 2022 …

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CHT Applications Developer Survey now open

Community Health, Product / By Niraj Sitaula

As technical stewards of the CHT, our aim is to make the process of developing the Community Health Toolkit (CHT) application easier and quicker for all. For this purpose, we are looking forward to engaging with your feedback that will help us better understand and enhance the CHT framework. We …

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Providing first mile healthcare in Diapé, Adzopé District- Côte d’Ivoire

Africa, Community Health, Impact / By Wendy Achieng

Technological stewardship has been key in advancing different areas of our lives; from improving access to information, resources, and most importantly health. As we celebrate the gains made, we also recognize the need to continuously ensure that even the hardest to reach communities are equipped with the necessary skills that …

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Equipping CHWs with tools in Kitui County, Kenya

Community Health, Kenya, Product / By Wendy Achieng

Health systems, in their current forms, exclude people from care. However, a global network of 3.3 million Community Health Workers (CHWs) – committed and trusted members of the communities where they live and work – are an integral part of a new model of proactive and patient-centric care, one that …

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Understanding the experiences of CHT users through surveys

Community Health, Uganda / By leahngaari

Building world class open source software is important in improving the quality of care in our communities. By ensuring that through this process, we focus on being people led, we are able to understand critical information from the onset thus focus on the right areas of improvement especially on user …

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Partners In Health to open source their full CHT-based community health app – YendaNafe

Announcement, Community Health, Malawi, Product, Team / By Wendy Achieng

Authored by: Philip Ngari, Program Manager, Medic Responding to community needs in Malawi Malawi is one of the countries with very high levels of poverty and also high HIV prevalence, with about one million people currently living with HIV. The country also has high under-five (39 per 1000 live births) …

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Rural women at the centre of providing quality care

Africa, Community Health, Opinion pieces / By Wendy Achieng

In rural communities around the world, community health workers (CHWs) have long been trusted providers of healthcare. Every day, CHWs cover long distances to make sure that all their neighbours – even the most remote – have access to health services. On this International Day of Rural Women, we celebrate …

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User experience at the center of everything we do

Africa, Community Health, Product, Uganda / By nicoleorowski

Follow our Product teammates’ journey to the Koboko, Nebbi, and Maracha Districts of Uganda to gain valuable insights through usability testing and focused group discussions with community health workers.