Search for contacts using barcodes

Product Feature Requests
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Your Organization: Medic + I-TECH + Lighthouse Trust

Organization Type: NGO

What Other Organizations Would Benefit From This Feature: MoH

Describe the Feature: As a healthcare worker I want to search for clients in the CHT using barcodes so that I can correctly identify clients.

What “Pain Point” Does The Proposed Feature Address: [Is there an unmet need impacting patients, providers, managers, developers, etc?]
Searching for clients on the peoples tab using names is not preferred because some clients have the same the first name and surname. The other search approach available is by using national IDs which requires manual entry of a 16 digit alphanumeric code, a process that is prone to data entry errors.

Proposed Solution: [How you would like to solve the “pain point”? This is a starting point for conversation, and can be high-leveled / general.] Scan a barcode label to retrieve the national ID in order to search for clients in the app.

Do you have funding to cover external developers? No

Do You Have Resources (Designers, Developers, PMs) Available: Yes

Links To Supporting Information / Uploads: [feature specs or designs, examples of similar features etc]

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Thanks so much for the feature request @mureithi !

Can you clarify your use case? I’m wondering if:

  • it is on a mobile handset in the CHT Android APK or a desktop browser?
  • it is for an online or offline user?
  • if you already have the barcode data entered and searchable, and just need need a way to search for the value?
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  • it is on a mobile handset in the CHT Android APK or a desktop browser?

CHT Android APK installed on a tablet.

  • it is for an online or offline user?

Offline user

  • if you already have the barcode data entered and searchable, and just need need a way to search for the value?

We scan barcodes during client registration and now want to scan barcodes in the “Search” field from the CHT Android app.