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my name is mehmet i am a nurse and law student in germany and i want to build a platform where patients and nurses can get in touch and. from there i want to support them with little modular solutions like apps but as a longterm goal i want to implement usefull diy instruments based on micro controller developement.
Thus i help persons to take care of their selves and taker care of others.
for the beginning i am looking for any help to build a platform.
than a tool for authentification process to build trust therefore IDs and insurance and profession documents should be uploaded and checked.
Can someone help me or throw a few keywords which i can try to do research on.
Hello Mehmet, and welcome to the CHT forum!
The CHT supports a number of key features including; messaging for care coordination, alerts, and notifications.
While our documentation on hardware integrations is limited, we would be interested to hear about your experience integrating the CHT with the instruments you have in mind. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you require any support with the CHT.
Thank You for welcoming me in the CHT forum and nice to meet you Samuel!
And thank you for sharing your docs with me <3
its perfect for the beginning and learning and gives me a certain “red line” to follow a structured process. I think I will try to copy it if you dont mind? I am not sure if I am able to, just want to have a try… and god knows… 
if it goes well, I can think of modifications…Do you have experienced alternatives for AWS?
You’re welcome! I’m happy that you found the information useful. Feel free to follow any of the documentation on the CHT docs site and use it for your work as desired.
Most CHT applications are hosted on AWS as recommended. However, the CHT Docker Image Setup allows you to run the CHT on alternative platforms including your own local computer. Unfortunately, I’m not a cloud expert and don’t have any handy AWS alternatives at the moment.
Dear CHT team, Glad to join this forum. I have been involved in facilitating training workshops, imparting online and physical training and would like to share my concerns as follows: 1) when it comes to skills development especially in the field of health at the primary care level, touching and examining a patient is of utmost importance that only comes by practice e.g. using stethoscope for rhonchi in lungs, palpation of thickened nerves and testing sensory and motor loss can not be learnt digitally. 2) not all community members have smartphones and internet connectivity. I would love to discuss it further
Welcome to the forum, @MAARIF! We are really glad to have you join us.
You raise some interesting points. The CHT is certainly meant to support health care workers and not replace health training or the human interaction involved in providing care. It is also a reality that smartphone penetration is low in many communities. The CHT supports SMS forms that work with basic phones, through which users can interact with the system via SMS.
I’d encourage you to raise these topics and others for discussion in the implementation category. In case you have specific questions or comments about the tools, then the product category would be a great place to start.
Hello, Am happy to be here. My name is Abert Namanya. Am a master’s student doing Masters of Science In Computing majoring in Mobile computing. Then also an open source developer volunteering with Openmrs
Hi @abertnamanya, and welcome to the CHT forum! It’s so great to have you join us. We are good friends with many from the OpenMRS community and would love to continue learning from one another. @niraj would be a great person to connect with if you have questions about open-source development, particularly with the CHT.
Hello Team,
I glad to be here and also ready to learn new stuffs thanks.
Hi,
I’m happy to be here and eager to learn new things. Thanks!
hello devs, glad to be here, I am Brian a contributor to opensourceand and a great lover of computers. Here is some more info about me https://bahati308.github.io/ introductory resources [links or so ] will be highly appreciated. Thanks
Hello!
I am Swaliho Dauda Sheriff from Sierra Leone West Africa. I’m a Pro Community Health worker specifically serving as District focal for Community Health Workers in Falaba District Sierra Leone. Glad to join this great team.
Hello @Salia_Sheriff
Welcome to the CHT forum
We are glad to have you here 
Good morning everyone!
I am Swaliho Dauda Sheriff District Community Health Worker Focal from Sierra Leone West Africa. Our community health workers used paper-based registers and job aids for their routine CHW work.
I have been thinking of digitalizing these work tools for effective, efficient and sustainable heath service delivery from the CHWs. Could CHT help in this direction?
Please I need feedback!
Thank you
Welcome to the CHT forum @Salia_Sheriff. We will be reaching out to you for us to connect on a call to share more about the CHT and discuss how the Sierra Leone team can leverage CHT to support CHWs to efficiently deliver community health services.
Good morning everyone,
My name is Jude Zambarakji, and I’m happy to join this forum as an intern Operations Manager at Datalytics Craft. While this is my first experience in operations management, I bring a background in software development and basic programming knowledge, which I hope to leverage in supporting our partnership with the Community Health Toolkit.
I am passionate about learning and growing within this role and contributing meaningfully to the projects and collaborations here. I’m eager to learn more about how technology can be best be used to improve the health outcomes of local communities, especially in underserved regions. I look forward to connecting with and learning from all of you in this supportive community.
Based in Kenya, I would appreciate any advice or insights as I navigate this new path. Please feel free to reach out.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Jude
Greetings CHT,
My name is Benjamin Ailak.
I work as a MERL officer at Compelling Works Limited in Uganda. Compelling Works is a digital health firm with offices in Uganda and Malawi that promotes health, well-being and development through digital transformation,project management and research. It provides services such as software development,digital health advisory services, digital infrastructure setup,m health application development, health information systems integration, with projects implemented across Sub Saharan Africa.
I am passionate about contributing towards better public health outcomes through digital health solutions through research and scale up of community systems.
I learned about CHT through @antony at the GDHF 2025 conference in Nairobi .
We joined this forum such that we can learn from the experts here in, contribute to various efforts here in through our pool of IT and software experts .
It’s a pleasure to be here.
Thank you
Hi Swaliho,
I came across your post and wanted to reach out directly — what you described resonates with me deeply, and I think we may be working toward the same goal from different directions.
My name is Fatima M. Elias. I am a health informatics specialist based in New Jersey, USA, with Sierra Leonean heritage, and I am the founder of Kushé Health, PBC — a public benefit corporation building a mobile-first, offline-capable community health registry designed specifically for Sierra Leone.
Kushé is built precisely for the situation you described. It replaces paper-based registers and job aids with a digital platform that works completely offline — community health workers can register patients, record visits, capture GPS location, and complete their routine work without any internet connection. Everything syncs automatically when connectivity is available. Patients receive a QR-coded health card that travels with them across facilities, so their full history is available to any clinician who scans it.
The CHW role is at the heart of how Kushé works. Registration, community outreach, school screening, and patient follow-up are all built around the realities of CHW work in the field — not around what works in a well-resourced hospital setting.
We are currently in the specification and pre-deployment phase, actively seeking pilot partners and clinical collaborators in Sierra Leone. I would very much welcome a conversation with you about what your CHWs need, what the paper-based workflows currently look like, and whether Kushé could be part of the solution you are looking for.
If you are open to it, I would be glad to share more about the platform — including an interactive demonstration of the CHW interface — and hear more about your district and the work your team does.
With warm regards,
Fatima M. Elias, MS
Founder and CEO, Kushé Health, PBC