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. …
The Government of Mali is taking a bold and progressive stance in reforming its health system, placing a priority on complete digitization of community-level health to improve planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting on progress towards maternal and child health outcomes, particularly the availability of actionable data for decision-making. Mali is …
Through the Bayer Foundation-funded Digital Health Ecosystem (DHE) project and in partnership with PATH, Medic launched the Community Health Toolkit Entrepreneurship Accelerator (CHTEA).
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 …
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) …
Partners In Health to open source their full CHT-based community health app – YendaNafe Read More »
In December 2021, Medic hosted the first CHT Community Round-up – the start of a series of monthly calls to engage the community, share product news, and open the floor for valuable, direct feedback to our team.
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.
Announcing the latest release of the Community Health Toolkit (CHT), including new features, improved performance, and much more.