Medic Mobile

10/08/2026

What does it really cost to host the CHT for your digital health system? We finally have an answer we can stand behind.

We went from:
A best guess informing cost estimates ▶️ 3 years of production data from 30 live instances.
A month of developer time to build ▶️ one week, with AI.
"It depends" ▶️ 9 cents per health worker per month, adjustable to your deployment.

Partners are already using it to plan their next deployments.

🔗 Read the story at the link in the comments

Explore how Medic's Cost Calculator makes budgeting for the Community Health Toolkit easier and more accurate with AI-driven insights.

09/28/2026

Some exciting news from UNGA last week 🌍

The Community Health Toolkit has won the Award for Digital Inclusion by and — for bringing digital tools to the frontline workers and communities that health systems reach last.

Grateful for this global recognition that belongs to: 182,000+ community health workers ▶️ 24 countries ▶️ 47 partner organizations. All creating one open-source toolkit that serves as critical public infrastructure.

To every health worker, ministry, partner and contributor who built this with us — thank you.

Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/4xHToJq

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.