Go paperless with mobile data collection.
CommCare Mobile sends data over standard phone networks for inspection on the web in real-time. With complex form logic and data validation, CommCare supports a variety of projects, from simple surveys to complex counseling forms.
Retrieve data for your cases in real-time.
CommCare Mobile submits completed forms to our HIPAA-compliant server over a GPRS connection. When connectivity is unavailable, CommCare operates in offline mode to ensure data collection is unaffected. Forms are saved on the phone and can be sent automatically when the phone regains connectivity. CommCareHQ, our cloud-based application, receives and exposes all collected data through key indicator reports. You can download the data to excel or other 3rd party applications.
Create simple surveys or complex forms.
You can use our easy online tools to configure your own CommCare mobile application. Paper questionnaires become “forms” on the phone. This simple mobile phone interface can collect a wide variety of data, including dates, multiple choice questions, images, video, bar codes and GPS coordinates. Automatic data validation and advanced form logic accommodate highly complex forms.
Track patients and key health indicators.
CommCare helps health workers keep track of their clients over time. CommCare mobile's case management system ensures the health worker has access to important patient data from previous visits.
Manage cases in the field.
CommCare’s case management workflow is designed to support health workers who routinely visit the same clients. Health workers can manage the entire life-cycle of a case without any need for network connectivity; CommCare can perform these actions completely offline. Our partners have leveraged case management to target a wide variety of health issues, including maternal health, malaria, TB, HIV, malnutrition, and lab workflows.
Monitor cases from the web.
On CommCareHQ, you can view all registered cases and see how case data has changed over time. Automated case activity reports help you monitor how often health workers are visiting their patients.
Improve the User Experience
Multimedia creates a better, more engaging experience for the health worker and the client. CommCare supports audio, image, and video playback to create a more interactive learning environment.
Multimedia for counseling.
Our focus groups and structured interviews with CHWs in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan reveal a clear trend that the phones increase credibility for the CHWs and improve client engagement. This is consistent with evidence showing multimedia job aids improved CHW performance, confidence, and client engagement.
Multimedia for low-literacy.
Our special ‘CommCareSense’ interface tailors your application for low-literate users. To decrease reliance on text, CommCareSense offers a simplified mobile interface that emphasizes visual cues over text.
You can take advantage of CommCare’s multimedia capabilities to reduce the text in your own protocols and surveys.
Supervise and Analyze Programs
CommCareHQ enables easy application and user management, including SMS communication with your workforce.
Create and deploy an application.
Your “domain” on CommCareHQ encapsulates your CommCare project. Here, you can create, edit, and deploy a mobile application.
Our online application builder makes it easy to create forms and case management workflows. Take advantage of our SMS deployment tool to install or update an application remotely.
Manage your team.
Register, delete, and group CommCare application users in your domain. You can send SMSs from your domain to communicate quickly and inexpensively with your distributed workforce. Our automated SMS reminder tool has proven effective in improving CHW follow-up rates.
Active Data Management
Active Data Management, a new service from Dimagi, enables Community Health Worker programs to access, interpret, follow-up, and track actions taken on their CommCare project data.
Concept behind Active Data Management.
Active Data Management (ADM) ensures CommCare is used consistently and correctly. By facilitating routine evidence-based action, ADM enables all community health workers to provide consistent, high quality services to their clients in order to achieve the full impact of the program.
Evaluate. Act. Improve.
ADM is an end-to-end process that focuses on continuous performance improvement of your Community Health Worker (CHW) workforce. By providing timely, interpretable reports of CHW activities, as well as targeted follow-up actions for supervisory staff members, ADM creates understanding about CHW performance, generates follow-up action items and tracks these items through to completion.