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 …
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 …
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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.
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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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 …
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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Today, I am incredibly excited to announce that we are launching the Community Health Toolkit with an inspiring group of partners. The toolkit is an open-source project, and the products will serve, collectively, as a public good for global health. For more background on the toolkit, I recommend reading through the site …
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 …
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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