We’re excited to announce the release of 5.1.0 of CHT Core Framework
See below for some highlights, read the release notes for full details.
Following the CHT’s support policy, versions 4.21 and earlier are no longer supported. Projects running these versions should start planning to upgrade in the near future. For more details read the CHT software support documentation.
5.1.0 Highlights
Previous month’s targets
Similar to CHT 4.10’s feature of allowing supervisors to see their CHW’s prior month’s aggregate targets, CHT 5.1 now enables CHWs to see their own prior month’s targets as well. The community had identified only being able to see the current month’s targets as a roadblock. Now CHWs can use the filter option to view their own targets for the current and prior months.
Show overdue task count
Tasks continue to be an important way that CHWs interact with the CHT to know who is most in need of care. A compliment to CHT 4.21’s Task prioritization feature is 5.1’s ability to show a bubble with with the count of tasks that are due today or overdue. This gives CHWs a simple to read signal about outstanding items.
Attachments on contacts
While attachments have been possible on app forms for some time, this feature is now available on contact forms too. This enables deployments that need to attach, for example, a photo of a person or household to a contact. The documentation has more information or check out the video showing how it works.
Android notifications
The requirement of launching the CHT to see what was important was holding back users. This is now solved in 5.1.0 with the introduction of the Android Notification feature which compliments the release of CHT Android 1.7 which adds support for the CHT feature. To find out more, check out the documentation or see a video from a round up call where the feature was demonstrated.
Task filtering GUI
As a CHT deployment grows in number of patients it cares for, inherently the CHW delivering this care must juggle more tasks. When there’s too many tasks, critical house visits may be missed. The community let us know the CHT could be improved to better handle this. The ability to filter the task view to show different types of tasks and split between which are overdue and which are not, is now available.
And more…
We’ve also implemented loads of other improvements and fixed a heap of bugs.