Medic Mobile

Building tools for people who care. Medic builds world-class, open-source software that supports health workers delivering equitable care that reaches everyone.

Medic serves as the technical steward and a core contributor to the Community Health Toolkit (CHT), an open-source platform that supports health workers as they provide essential care in their own communities. We are part of a movement for global health equity aimed at changing how health systems work and how technology powers those systems. Medic's global team of innovators is 90+ strong, dispers

ed across more than 14 countries, 32 cities, and all time zones. We create resources, build documentation, and offer support to a growing community of partners and builders working to improve health in the hardest-to-reach communities. Medic is a US 501(c)(3) public charity with tax-exempt status.

08/31/2026

76% of community health workers surveyed are already using AI.

But only 15% of the tools were designed with them.

That disconnect is the subject of Episode 3 of Ground Truth, a new series from Medic bringing conversations around AI to the last mile of care.

We're joined by Community Health Impact Coalition's Dr. James O'Donovan and Lwala Community Alliance's Benard Otieno, to understand what ‘support, not replace’ actually looks like at the doorstep.

🎥 Watch the full conversation: youtu.be/vG68bnjvMKM

08/26/2026

When tech fails, who pays the price?

For Episode 3 of our new series Ground Truth, join Shreya Bhatt, supported CHW Benard and CHIC's Dr. James O'Donovan to understand what AI must learn from the people closest to care.

We have a narrow window of opportunity to get AI for community health right.

And that window is closing. Fast.

🎥 Watch the full conversation at the link in the comments 🔗 💬

08/05/2026

Here are 6 new CHT features you need to know about...

🔗 API endpoints: Makes it easy to identify users who have had replication failures (critical to sustaining ever-increasing CHT deployments)

🛋️ New version of CouchDB: Brings a 60% improvement in indexing performance.

🎨 UI extensions: App developers can now build configurable pages in the CHT!

📍Collapsible contact summaries: Reduces vertical scrolling on content-heavy pages

📋 Tab customizations: Allows deployments to order and choose which tab a CHW sees when they open their app

🔍 Search field: Offline free-text search feature to quickly locate tasks.

Want to learn more? Explore the full release—link in comments 🔗

07/29/2026

Hamida used to dread the questions her community health workers brought her. Not because she didn't care, but because she didn't have time to find the answers.

Episode two of Ground Truth is here, and it takes us all the way to the ground. Andra Blaj talks with Abbas Wandella of D-tree about the AI assistant they built to support supervisors like Hamida, to help her make sense of the data she already had.

They also talk about something bigger: what it really takes to grow a small pilot into a system a whole government owns and trusts. Abbas's answer might surprise you...

🎥 Watch episode two now at the link in the comments 🔗
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07/20/2026

AI is being defined right now: its purpose, its limits, who it's really built for. But most of that conversation is happening far away from the people closest to care.

That's why we started Ground Truth: a new monthly conversation series where we bring AI back to the doorstep — to community health workers, implementers, and the people building the tools they rely on.

Episode one is live with Raffi Krikorian, CTO of , who joins us for an honest conversation about AI, ownership, and what it takes to build technology that actually serves the last mile of care.

They talk through what "owners, not renters" means for a community health worker with a six-year-old phone and no signal, whether offline AI is ready to help her today, and who gets to decide what "good enough" looks like when the people affected have the least power in the room.

🎥 Watch episode one now here: youtu.be/stgPU952VkA
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07/02/2026

AI is being defined right now. Its purpose, its limits. Who it's really built for. But most of that conversation is happening far away from the people closest to care.

That's why we started Ground Truth: a new monthly conversation series where we bring AI back to the doorstep — to community health workers, implementers, and the people building the tools they rely on.

Episode one is here, and it's a big one: Raffi Krikorian, CTO of Mozilla and chair of Medic's Board, joins Co-Executive Director Andra Blaj for an honest conversation about AI, ownership, and what it takes to build technology that actually serves the last mile of care.

They talk through what "owners, not renters" means for a community health worker with a six-year-old phone and no signal, whether offline AI is ready to help her today, and who gets to decide what "good enough" looks like when the people affected have the least power in the room.

🎥 Watch episode one now at the link in the comments
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06/30/2026

The future of digital health across Africa is here.

We're thrilled to introduce Medic Afya: a new digital health hub for African-led innovation, emerging from Medic.

For 15 years, we've believed that true local ownership means experts on the ground holding real decision-making authority over sovereign health systems. Medic Afya is how we're putting that belief into practice.

It's fully independent, Kenya-based, and African-led, carrying forward the same team that has driven this work for over a decade, embedded in the communities, governments, and health systems they serve.

Leading this next chapter is Dr. Ryan Nyotu, one of Kenya's foremost digital health leaders and Medic Afya's inaugural Executive Director.

Read the full story in our latest blog from Medic Afya Board Chair and Google Search Africa General Manager, Wambui Kinya, at the link in comments 🔗

06/25/2026

We're launching something new...but it's a conversation long overdue.

In the world of AI, 'ground truth' represents verified, real-world data: the actual answer you check a model against.

In community health, ground truth is what's happening at the doorstep — the health worker, the patient, the conversation that happens in a village far from any boardroom or conference.

AI is being defined right now. Its purpose, its limits, and who gets to shape it. Most of that conversation is happening far from the people closest to care.

That's what Ground Truth is about: bringing it back.

Starting in June, we're sitting down with community health workers, implementers, technologists, funders, and the builders working at the last mile to ask what AI really needs to learn if it's going to unlock health for all.

We know the questions around AI don't have a single, one-size-fits-all answer. But we'll be sharing honest conversations that bring us one step closer. The kind you can only have when people with genuinely different vantage points are given space to think out loud.

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We can't wait to share this with you.

06/03/2026

This is Simon Pierre Gabo Gahou.

Since 2018, he has cycled through Gagnoa, south-central Côte d’Ivoire, caring for 60 households as a community health worker (CHW).

He kept track of every family, every pregnancy, and every child on paper.

That is until a Community Health Toolkit-powered app called SanteComCIV changed everything.

Now, Simon Pierre has a tool that guides disease diagnosis and referral, flags who needs urgent care, and gives recognition and visibility to those like him on the frontlines of care.

“Everything is quicker with the application,” he says.

The system is now deployed across nearly half the country. Over 8,200 CHWs like Simon Pierre use it to deliver quality care to 6.3 million people.

And the results tell an incredible story: 94% of supervisors say that the tool supports better clinical decision-making, and over 90% of households reported increased use of health services.

This is what transformative tech looks like when it’s developed with the communities it serves.

Discover more about how the CHT is used around the world in our 2025 Annual Report - link in comments

06/01/2026

When communities shape the technology they use, health systems grow stronger.

That’s the core belief behind the CHT Community of Practice. And, in 2025, it was affirmed in amazing ways.

We welcomed 262 new members—a remarkable 344% increase from the previous year.

Contributions doubled, connections between members grew fivefold. A challenge in Kenya fuelled progress in Mali and a breakthrough in Nepal drove change in Jamaica.

This is the power of community: a global ecosystem driving transformation, together.

Read more about what the Community achieved in our 2025 Annual Report at the link in the comments

Do you or your organization work with the CHT Community? We’d love to hear about your experience down in the comments if so.

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