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 […]
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
Post author: Mourice Barasa, Research Officer for Monitoring & Data Systems Precision public health is an emerging practice to have more granularity in prediction and understanding of public health risks while customizing treatments for more specific and homogeneous subpopulations, often using new data, technologies, and methods. It is about delivering
Accurate geospatial health data for better precision public health Read More »
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
The product team at Medic conducted an experiment with County Health Administrators based in Kenya’s Siaya County who use the event-based monitoring system application – powered by the Community Health Toolkit – called mDharura.
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FCHVs share how mHealth training and remote care coordination have become a lifeline between frontline health workers and patients during COVID-19 lockdown in Nepal.
SMS tools empowering FCHVs in Nepal: Adapting to a new normal during COVID-19 lockdown Read More »
A year into our partnership, Dimagi, Medic, and The Rockefeller Foundation have collaborated on a report to explore how investments in digital platforms for frontline workers today can help prepare for future pandemics.
Announcing the latest release of the Community Health Toolkit (CHT), including new features, improved performance, and much more.
What’s new in the Core Framework: 3.11.0 Read More »
Introducing “caring activities” – Medic’s new principal metric and a better measure of all of the ways the CHT supports care today, and how we might support care in our next decade of work.
Redefining what it means to support care Read More »
We launched a global search for our next CEO. Brittany Hume Charm, one of Medic’s Board of Directors, shares more!
Accelerating Medic into its next chapter: Launching our global CEO search Read More »