Medic Launches New Strategy Bolstered by Catalytic Gift
Celebrating MacKenzie Scott’s investment toward our 2023-2025 Strategic Plan: Leveraging Technology to Reach Universal Health Coverage
Impact
Medic launches Community Health Toolkit Entrepreneurship Accelerator (CHTEA), in partnership with Bayer Foundation and PATH
Through the Bayer Foundation-funded Digital Health Ecosystem (DHE) project and in partnership with PATH, Medic launched the Community Health Toolkit Entrepreneurship Accelerator (CHTEA).
Advancing care through collaborative partnerships
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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Providing first mile healthcare in Diapé, Adzopé District- Côte d’Ivoire
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
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
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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D-tree and Medic: Advancing Universal Health Coverage through our shared commitment to digitally empowering Community Health Workers
The 77th session of the UN General Assembly kicks off this week, providing the opportunity for global leaders to come together and discuss some of the world’s most pressing challenges and solutions. At D-tree and Medic, we are excited to lead and participate in discussions about how we collectively can …
A CHT Round-Up Recap
In December 2021, Medic hosted the first CHT Community Round-up – the start of a series of monthly calls to engage the community, share product news, and open the floor for valuable, direct feedback to our team.
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 …