MrJones,
You are so kind and helpful (whoever you are). I am learning more and more by your responses. I had recently contacted a person who was seeking an App developer in Malawi to specifically work on her project using CHT. I thought maybe she found one and they could help us. When I described to her our needs, she thought CHT was way more or ‘bigger’ than what we were trying to accomplish and suggested to seek something simpler like REDCap for example.
We are an extremely small non profit with 3 employed nurses, 1 program director, and a couple of local drivers. We provide nursing care in the homes of Malawians in their villages and have about 250 patients/clients on average at one time. We are desperately trying to move to electronic data collection/record keeping on our clients rather than paper. That is why we thought CHT would work for us. We have no real tech person on staff but we have some funding to hire one to help us launch whatever App we decide to use. Do you think CHT is more than what we need? It will only be the nurses using it out in the field as we have no community health workers. The nurses work independently. We just need to better track our data/their assessments, etc. I’ve had students working in the US thus far on modifying the App to better suit our needs.
One other question I have is related to the Linux system. Do you think we would need the set up (the Linux OS on some computer) on ground in Malawi or could we continue to do the development here in the US as long as the staff on ground in Malawi have the App loaded on their mobile devices and have regular connection to the internet where they can upload their data to the cloud server? At least as a temporary situation until we found tech support on ground in Malawi? Like it seems as if they wouldn’t need access to Linux unless they were needing to modify or fix bugs, correct?
Thanks so much,
Meera