CommCare, a digital platform used by health organizations and government entities around the world, now widely available domestically to improve program efficacy across sectors in the U.S.
Cambridge, MA – Dimagi, a technology partner for public and community health, has announced an expansion of its globally-acclaimed products and services across the United States. Dimagi’s flagship product, CommCare, will now be widely available to support public and community health initiatives across the U.S. Dimagi’s platforms and expertise, which have been developed and refined through 3,000+ successful global projects with thousands of international governments and NGOs, are now available to support pressing and complex domestic health projects.
“The U.S. is reeling from unprecedented health, behavioral and social epidemics in a post-pandemic environment, which has underscored our nation’s urgent need for coordinated, interoperable interventions,” said Jonathon Jackson, CEO and co-founder of Dimagi. “Expensive, single use solutions drag down our understaffed and underfunded agencies and organizations, and ultimately, hinder the outcomes which they were implemented to solve in the first place. We’re in critical need of affordable solutions that can be deployed horizontally across the whole healthcare ecosystem.”
CommCare is an alternative to the complex, siloed and expensive solutions currently available. It provides an interface to build custom workforce solutions that can streamline mobile and offline data collection and reporting, case management and decision support while prioritizing reducing burden for end-users. Dimagi’s Video Directly Observed Treatment (VDOT) solution, SureAdhere, provides customizable remote monitoring across a wide variety of uses, including infectious disease and behavioral health. Dimagi began offering both solutions to the U.S. market in response to overwhelming need during the Covid-19 pandemic and is now expanding access to help organizations support even more public and community health initiatives.
“At the onset of the pandemic, we received requests from overwhelmed agencies looking for reliable solutions with a global track record of effectiveness. We were able to quickly spin up localized solutions in the U.S. when we were needed most,” Jackson said. “Our platforms are low-code, sustainable and span across all verticals that impact a community’s health outcomes, and we’re excited to now offer them more broadly to the U.S. market.”
Dimagi’s has seen rapid domestic growth since its entry into the market in 2020 and now has presence in 24 states. It’s partnered with numerous organizations, enabling programs in behavioral health and infectious disease with solutions for bed and patient tracking, care coordination, provider directories and referral systems.
A few custom U.S. CommCare deployments include:
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A Covid-19 digital response solution developed and localized for New York, New Jersey, Colorado, Alaska, Pennsylvania and the Navajo Nation that allowed these governments to support their users with rapid case investigation, contact tracing and surveillance.
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An innovative team-based care model solution in Vermont was built on CommCare and implemented across four different agencies to tackle the mounting housing crisis.
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A community health worker (CHW) support program deployed in Florida and Texas
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A coordinated support program for individuals recently released from incarceration – or returning citizens (RCs) and a support program for the reduction of the health equity gap of veteran RCs.
Dimagi’s SureAdhere is also deployed in Vermont for VDOT in medically assisted treatment (MAT) programs. 13 other states and districts across the country have public health agencies utilizing SureAdhere as an intervention and monitoring tool in the treatment of tuberculosis.
Founded in 2002 out of MIT and Harvard Medical School’s joint division Health Science Tech, Dimagi was among the first Certified B Corporations established in Massachusetts. Dimagi’s services and products have been successfully implemented for both pilot-phase projects and enterprise-wide deployments with over 300 partners worldwide including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Health Organization, World Bank, USAID, CDC, NIH, World Vision, UNICEF, PATH, the Rockefeller Foundation and Acumen Fund.
About Dimagi
Dimagi is a global social impact organization, working since 2002 towards their vision of a world where everyone has access to the services they need to thrive. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and with teams in India, South Africa, Senegal, and around the world, Dimagi partners with governments, NGOs, and foundations to amplify their frontline impact through scalable digital solutions and expert services. Dimagi’s open-source flagship product, CommCare, is the world's most widely used data collection and service delivery platform, used by more than one million Frontline Workers in 130 countries. An evidence base of more than 90 peer-reviewed publications has shown that equipping Frontline Workers with CommCare improves performance, quality of care delivered and client health outcomes. Learn more at https://www.dimagi.com.
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