Description
PATH’s Digital Health Ecosystem (DHE) project focuses on four Africa-based digital health organizations with support to expand and adapt their offerings to benefit community health and explore sustainable business models.
Refugee environments in Uganda can have disjointed health information systems making programmatic decisions and resource allocation difficult. Moreover, refugees are usually isolated from national health program interventions. Guild Digital developed and supported an application for refugee environments, the refugee setting Community Health Management Information System (rCHMIS), to address strategic and operational gaps in responding to humanitarian health situations in Uganda. For PATH’s DHE project funded by the Bayer Foundation, they are enhancing the application to include workflows specifically for use by humanitarian response supervisors to support village health teams in these refugee settlements.
The app revolutionized healthcare delivery for the communities because it catered to emerging needs and is also open source. For the design of the supervisor application, we are tailoring workflows of the service areas such as Integrated Community Case Management; Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene; and mentorship sessions. We are implementing the feedback we received from supervisors to allow them to customize their experience by selecting preferred metrics, layouts, and notification preferences. And finally, we are also ensuring the application can integrate with existing systems and databases to access relevant data, for example, the Village Health Team data.
Much like the ethos of human-centered design, digital health implementations thrive best when developed and delivered by those that are geographically close to their actual context of use, deployment, and impact. Organizations like Guild Digital extend the reach of global partners closer to very nuanced and specific implementation conditions, which when supported yield mutual benefits.
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