CHT – Medic

Revolutionizing Healthcare Coordination: Unlocking the Power of Interoperability

In part one of our interoperability series, we explored how interoperability is crucial not only in exponentially digital societies, but specifically within healthcare to ensure better care coordination and service delivery. Medic’s journey to create an interoperability layer in the Community Health Toolkit (CHT) – leveraging Open Health Information Mediator …

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Exploring the Developer Landscape: CHT Applications Developer Survey 2023

Community Health / By Niraj Sitaula

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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Medic launches Community Health Toolkit Entrepreneurship Accelerator (CHTEA), in partnership with Bayer Foundation and PATH

Africa, Kenya, Partnership, Press Release, Uganda / By Jeff Jacobs

Through the Bayer Foundation-funded Digital Health Ecosystem (DHE) project and in partnership with PATH, Medic launched the Community Health Toolkit Entrepreneurship Accelerator (CHTEA).

Welcoming Nekesa Were, Medic’s Director of Community

Announcement, Team / By Jeff Jacobs

Medic is excited to welcome Nekesa Were as our Director of Community, steering the growing global Community Health Toolkit (CHT) Community of Practice. Nekesa joins at a pivotal moment where the community is becoming increasingly diverse – encompassing new geographic regions, prioritizing new kinds of healthcare services, and identifying new …

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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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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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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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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.

Now Open! The first CHT applications developer survey for 2022

Community Health, Impact, Product / By Niraj Sitaula

Our team is continuously working to enhance the Community Health Toolkit (CHT) framework. We can not do this alone, so, we are asking you to provide valuable feedback via a survey which is open now and available till 31st July.