Research – Page 2

Deploying a Predictive Algorithms Initiative using the Community Health Toolkit

Announcement, CHT, Digital Health, Impact, Research, UI/UX / By Medic

Post authored by Bernard Kagondu, Project Tech Lead For over a decade, Medic Mobile has used data to support decision making and to inform our Human-Centered Design (HCD) approach while supporting our partners. Medic Mobile is at the forefront of innovation, and data science is part of our vision to sustainable, low-cost community healthcare technology. In […]

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Medic Launches Medic Labs

Announcement, Digital Health, Impact, Press Release, Research / By Medic

Post originally published on PRNewswire Medic Launches Medic Labs: A New Tech Accelerator for Global Health with an Initial $3 Million Investment from The Rockefeller Foundation Medic Labs will Incubate Breakthrough Ideas in Data Science and Precision Public Health, Bringing the Strengths of the Tech Community to The Challenge of Health For All

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From Data to Action: An Introduction to Medic’s Data Approach

Case Study, Impact, Research / By Medic

Post authored by Maria Ma, Impact Analyst and Helen Olsen, Impact Manager. At Medic, we recently hit a big data milestone – over 1 million community health worker actions were recorded in a single month using our mHealth tools! This number represents both the highest single month of community health worker (CHW)

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Testing at Medic

Impact, Research, UI/UX / By Medic

Written in collaboration with Gareth Bowen (Chief Architect), and Bede Ngaruko (Quality Assurance Engineer). Software defects, also known as “bugs”, are unexpected behavior in software due to inadvertent errors in the code. The severity of these defects can go from minor visual disruptions that have workarounds, to critical defects that

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New Study: Precision Supervision and Personalized Feedback Dashboards Improve CHW Performance in Mali

Africa, Case Study, Impact, Mali, Research / By Medic

Post authored by Beatrice Wasunna, Senior Researcher. The figure above shows Muso’s 360° Supervision system to actively and regularly mentor Community Health Workers for improved performance. Our research and model-building partner Muso has achieved some of the lowest child mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa, and we’re excited to share the results of a study that Muso and the

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Data Science at Medic

Impact, Research, Team / By Medic

Post authored by Matt Cane, Medic’s Data Scientist. It’s an exciting time at Medic, as we’re in the early stages of our journey into data science. We feel data science has tremendous potential to help us better understand the challenges facing health workers, and to allow us to design tools to

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New Report Reviews the 50+ Publications in Medic’s Research Archive

Impact, Research / By Medic

Post authored by Medic’s co-founder and Research Lead, Isaac Holeman. Medic Mobile’s research team is committed to bringing the latest science and data-driven care to communities facing the highest burdens of poverty and disease. We wanted to take this opportunity to update our scientific collaborators and broader network of partners about our

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