In celebration of Kenya’s upcoming national launch of the CHT-based electronic community health information system (eCHIS), we’re reflecting on the breadth of Medic’s more than decade-long commitment of collaboration and impact in-country. In part one, we highlighted Medic’s journey supporting community health in Kenya. In part two, we highlighted our …
We are excited to announce the release of CHT Watchdog, a new and powerful open-source solution for monitoring CHT deployments and receiving push alerts when attention is needed from a CHT administrator (see system monitoring and notification). This comprehensive monitoring tool, developed by Medic, is now available for installation on …
Introducing CHT Watchdog: Stay Informed with Push Alerts from CHT Core! Read More »
In celebration of Kenya’s upcoming national launch of the CHT-based electronic community health information system (eCHIS), we’re reflecting on the breadth of Medic’s more than decade-long commitment of collaboration and impact in-country. In part one below, we highlight Medic’s journey supporting community health in Kenya. In part two, we highlight …
Empowering Digitized Community Health in Kenya: Medic’s Journey of Impact and Growth Read More »
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 …
Revolutionizing Healthcare Coordination: Unlocking the Power of Interoperability Read More »
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 …
Exploring the Developer Landscape: CHT Applications Developer Survey 2023 Read More »
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. …
Through the Bayer Foundation-funded Digital Health Ecosystem (DHE) project and in partnership with PATH, Medic launched the Community Health Toolkit Entrepreneurship Accelerator (CHTEA).
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 …
Welcoming Nekesa Were, Medic’s Director of Community Read More »
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 …
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 …
Equipping CHWs with tools in Kitui County, Kenya Read More »