The SanteComCIV digital system in Côte d’Ivoire enhances community health by improving data collection, empowering health workers, and contributing to reduced child mortality through efficient care.
Community at the center: How open source transforms health In a refugee settlement in Uganda, a community health worker uses her mobile phone to visit families, follow up on children’s vaccinations, and update health records, instantly connecting her patients to the national network of care. In Nepal, Female Community Health
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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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Post author: Samuel Mbuthia, Head of Community Interoperable systems work together, even if they were not designed specifically to do so, because standard communication protocol techniques – such as Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR) – are applied. All patient information can be seen, exchanged, and used across different platforms. To
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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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.
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Our mission at Medic Mobile is to support health workers as they provide care to those in the hardest-to-reach communities around the world. Equitable care and equitable health outcomes are key to our mission. Since 2016 we have been working with partners and researchers to develop and refine an Equity
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When a health worker said, “I want to pull out my phone, plan who I am going to see, and make sure I don’t miss anything,” we listened. Our product team has been hard at work building a new Android app designed for community health workers. After six months of
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