SECTOR
Infectious Disease
Around the world, CommCare has served as a proven solution for tracking the lifecycle of individual patients from diagnosis, initiation of treatment, adherence monitoring and to end of treatment for infectious diseases like malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis. It has also been used in controlling and responding to infectious disease outbreaks like Ebola and Zika.
Using digital solutions, these programs enhanced response rates to infectious diseases, increased diagnostic accuracy and speed in malaria treatment, and improved patient follow-up in HIV and tuberculosis programs.
For example, CommCare has been proven to speed up diagnostic times by 41% over paper-based tools. In one study, prescription calculations were completed 20% more efficiently. This is valuable time saved for providing further care and reaching more patients.
Benefits of Community-Based Service Delivery Solutions
Manage complex workflows at the point of care to promote adherence to clinical decision protocols and improve the quality of diagnosis and treatment.
Spend more time with the patient and less time with paper guides and forms by referencing patient history and training materials directly from the device.
Identify patients, collect longitudinal health information, and create tailored treatment and follow-up plans.
Gain real-time data access across all stakeholders in the health care system and manage data access permissions for all actors based on role.
Easily and securely refer patients and share lab results and patient information between clinics, health facilities, labs, and community health workers.
Detect data irregularities and oversee health workers’ activities with supervisory dashboards that help ensure protocol adherence and service coverage.
Provide treatment recommendations and enhance behavior change communication with locally-adaptable multimedia and communication capabilities.
Send automatic activity reminders to help frontline workers prioritize cases, while SMS messages remind patients of appointments and treatment protocols.
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Featured CommCare-Based Infectious Disease Programs
EGPAF Client Tracking Application for HIV & TB Patients | Lesotho
The Client Tracking Application was developed in partnership with EGPAF. It is used to Track Clinic Appointments, send SMS reminders for patients, and facilitate Patient Tracing (HIV, TB) to reduce the number of missed appointments, defaulting, and LTFU patients in TB/HIV/ANC visits. The app is currently deployed in eight districts. Dimagi is now partnering with the Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation Lesotho to deploy the app to the two final districts in Lesotho – bringing the app to national scale.
CDC & Infomovel HIV/TB Patient Case Management | Mozambique
Dimagi, CDC, along with 5 clinical partners (FGH, Ariel, EGPAF, CCS, ICAP) initiated a mHealth project in Mozambique using a mobile app to track and test HIV+ patients and their families. The project improves treatment adherence, identifies new patients through community testing, and facilitates data visibility and interoperability among partners. It has three main components: community testing, HIV adherence support, and retrieval of lost patients.
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Hear from Customers using CommCare to Improve their Frontline Program Performance
Cure Violence Global
“CommCare is a mission-critical, strategic platform for us. We have been able to turn data into a strategic advantage, showcasing our impact and driving funding.”
- Dr. Charles Elliott, Director of Data Management
Catholic Relief Services
“We use CommCare extensively to design data collection tools for both development and humanitarian contexts, appreciating its flexibility for both one-off surveys and case management.”
- Nora Lindström, Senior Director, ICT4D
MHP Salud
“CommCare has allowed us to really streamline the data collection process. CHWs find it easy to capture critical information in the moment with families.”
- Dr Maggie Dante, CEO
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