Digital Health

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

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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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 …

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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 …

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Introducing: Enhanced COVID-19 Rapid Diagnostic Testing Workflows in the Community Health Toolkit

Post author: Jennifer Quesada, Software Developer Countries around the world continue to grapple with the most effective way to access and analyze robust, centralized data around the spread of COVID-19. Meanwhile, we collectively face the critical need to respond quickly to local outbreaks, limiting the toll of the virus at …

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Remote usability testing with Partners In Health

We’ve recently successfully completed our first remote usability session, facilitated by Partners In Health (PIH) in Malawi! It was a valuable learning experience for both teams involved and we are so excited to share the process and findings with the greater community. Part of Medic’s responsibilities as the steward of …

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