Afya Data Reporting App

• Employ unconventional or proxy data sources to inform primary health care performance improvement;
• Provide improved measurement methods that are low cost, fit-for-purpose, shareable across information systems, and streamlined for data collectors;
• Leverage existing systems, networks, and workflows to streamline the collection and interpretation of data to support meaningful use of primary health care data;
• Provide actionable, accountable, and accessible insights for health care providers, administrators, and/or funders that can be used to optimize the performance of primary health care; and
• Balance the opportunity for frontline health workers to participate in performance improvement efforts with their primary responsibility as care providers.
• We are  estimating that 2500 people are affected with various health problems.
• We will work in East African Countries of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo

Our solution is to salve health problems in the communities.

All member so fte communities will be reached and accepted.

This data collection tool is better than the existingone sbecause it gives real data as it is corrected from the communities.

The following personnel will collect our primary health care data :

Research Assistants

Community Health Volunteers

Clinicians

Facility In-charges

County level presentation - Health Departments

National Level Presentation (MOH)

Target Population in all low and middle income countries.

The solution will address their needs because of the existing poor health conditions will be improves by this solution.

The needs in terms of health are considerable and the problems observed: dilapidated health infrastructures, inaccessibility to primary health care for the majority of the population (mainly the poor), difficulties in supplying essential medicines

We work in the communities through community partnerships.

These partnerships have given us an inside to the daily health difficulties many communities undergo.

The community partners have informed and us of their health problem and difficulties of reaching the health centres. We have factortered this in the development of ur App.

While we need to improve health of our communities, we face many challenges including financial, technical, cultural barriers that the Challenge can help us overcome if we are financially supported.

OBJECTIVES

• To employ unconventional or proxy data sources to inform primary health care performance improvement;
• To provide improved measurement methods that are low cost, fit-for-purpose, shareable across information systems, and streamlined for data collectors;
• To leverage existing systems, networks, and workflows to streamline the collection and interpretation of data to support meaningful use of primary health care data;
• To provide actionable, accountable, and accessible insights for health care providers, administrators, and/or funders that can be used to optimize the performance of primary health care;
• To balance the opportunity for frontline health workers to participate in performance improvement efforts with their primary responsibility as care providers.

ACTIVITIES

• •Register families and establish the baseline health status of families
• •Outline individual family structures and various linkages.
• •Assess, Classify and Deliver Family Health Care Services.
• •Organize and mobilize the families to take action to improve their health situation.
• •Facilitate health promotion through dialogue to improve healthy household practices.
• •Identify common conditions and take appropriate action (advise, treat, link or refer).
• •Promote care seeking and compliance with prescribed treatment and advice.
• •Link families with the health system.
• •Develop Participatory Health Plans for families
• •keep record of events based on regular family visits, support, and management
• •Evaluate performance on regular basis

EXPECTED RESULTS

Output

• Carrying out facility and community baseline survey in readiness for family health program launch
• Organizing stakeholders meeting and assessment
• Formation of multi-disciplinary teams

• •Training of trainers who will cascade further training to Multi-disciplinary teams in meeting Family Health Objectives.
• •Formation of skilled Family Health Practitioners teams who will be able to motivate and advocate for the key household health practices in their area of coverage.
• • Training of community health volunteers on family health service approaches
• •Training of health facility in charges on Electronic Community Health Information System.
• •Organising community health dialogue days to assess their health situation and identify gaps that may require additional knowledge and skills or may have influence on the implementation of family health program
• •Organizing community action days to engage community members and families in the process of meeting their health needs.
• •Organising and attending health education meetings in various communities to empower them with the knowledge attitude and practices that will enable them embrace family health approaches and therefore improve their health practices and health status.

Impact

Increased use of unconventional methods to measure the improvement of primary health care performance in low- and middle-income countries.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE

All low and middle income countries

TARGET POPULATION

Population in all low and middle income countries.

MONITORING AND EVALUATION

• Use of Afya Data Reporting App). for Management Health Information System
• Use of baseline survey reports
• Support supervision and field visits
• Regular reporting on Family Health services/activities and using the data or information generated for improvement.
• Use of logical framework analysis.

Evaluation will be mid-term and end-term by use of second and third parties.

TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY

• The community will periodically get reports on expenditure details apart from their appointed persons being involved in the whole process.

• The information will be communicated to the community through all community meeting areas and public notice boards

SUSTAINABILITY

This will be achieved by;

•  Training multi sectorial teams family health approaches
• Training of all health service providers’ staff and use TOTs to empower community members through health education.

• Encouraging trained community local action groups to spear head family health program activities in their respective areas.
•  Encouraging development of Kitchen gardening in every household to improve on food security.
• Encouraging multi sectorial partnership in Family Health program implementation activities.
• Use of the family health success data to apply for new funding from other donors.
• Encourage formation, creation and development of support groups that can continue beyond funding period to implement their own activities based on their areas of interest.
• Community encouraged to shun cultural practices that may affect full implementation of Family Health program.
• Encouraging development of IGAs for sustainability to the needy who cannot provide for themselves.

Afya Data Reporting App).

Some important features

1: Inbuilt GPS tracker

2: Able to function OFFLINE-with or without internet connectivity

3: User-friendly

4: Ability to capture and store as much data as possible

5: Ability to generate defaulter tracing data on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis

6: Able to generate Ante Natal Care (ANC) data at the click of a button

7: Able to generate family planning data daily, weekly, and monthly reports at the click of a button

8: Able to synchronize and deliver this data to the sub-county level for processing into the county and national health information systems

9: Able to track chronic illness patients and follow up

10: Able to synthesize next visit dates for easy follow-up (TCA)

11: Ability to collect data at the point of generation

12: Available on all devices i.e android and iOS

13: Monitor medication supply & progress

14: Monitor Family Planning and Ante Natal Care services

15: Giving prompt reminders on medication use and stock refilling to patients especially those with chronic illnesses e.g diabetes, hypertension, HIV AIDS, cancer

• •Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all, at all ages.
• Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
• Register families and establish the baseline health status of families
• •Outline individual family structures and various linkages.
• •Assess, Classify and Deliver Family Health Care Services.
• •Organize and mobilize the families to take action to improve their health situation.
• •Facilitate health promotion through dialogue to improve healthy household practices.
• •Identify common conditions and take appropriate action (advise, treat, link or refer).
• •Promote care seeking and compliance with prescribed treatment and advice.
• •Link families with the health system.
• •Develop Participatory Health Plans for families
• •keep record of events based on regular family visits, support, and management
• •Evaluate performance on regular basis

• Carrying out facility and community baseline survey in readiness for family health program launch
• Organizing stakeholders meeting and assessment
• Formation of multi-disciplinary teams

• •Training of trainers who will cascade further training to Multi-disciplinary teams in meeting Family Health Objectives.
• •Formation of skilled Family Health Practitioners teams who will be able to motivate and advocate for the key household health practices in their area of coverage.
• • Training of community health volunteers on family health service approaches
• •Training of health facility in charges on Electronic Community Health Information System.
• •Organising community health dialogue days to assess their health situation and identify gaps that may require additional knowledge and skills or may have influence on the implementation of family health program
• •Organizing community action days to engage community members and families in the process of meeting their health needs.
• •Organising and attending health education meetings in various communities to empower them with the knowledge attitude and practices that will enable them embrace family health approaches and therefore improve their health practices and health status.

We will use ADRA ( Afya Data Reporting App) to collect health data in communities.

Specific Targets and Objectives

1: Development of customized software applications and methodology for data entry, processing, and output that will be real-time, user-friendly, and work offline.

2: Devolving training and sensitization on the usage of the apps to the community health workers. We focus our training on Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) because they can get to the communities and get us the date that we require.

3: The software apps will be synchronized and easy to download and install on all devices; mobile phones, laptops, and tablets. (all major electronic devices). The CHVs will have these devices with the preinstalled apps, and one or two of the same devices will be in the health facilities. The facility in charge can manage these devices so that they can fill the data on real-time capture as soon as it is generated.

4: Define and focus on two data generation and entry points, which will include the health facilities and the CHVs in the communities. The healthcare workers can pull up the data of the patients and are also able to follow through with what the CHVs would have reported. The second data entry point is the CHVs and the patients as they go from house to house.

Data reporting on these two entry points shall be timely and will be synchronized in a way that follows up, especially on those with chronic illnesses, can be updated. The CHVs will be on the ground doing the follow-up and as soon as they key in the data, the clinicians and health workers can access the same data in real-time or as soon as possible in a span of 24 hrs.

There are existing data reporting tools that are done monthly, and most of the data is usually lost or erroneously reported. In this case, however, with this app, the health workers and the CHVs can report daily or perhaps weekly. This ensures improved utilization of raw and credible data from the two sources.

7. Defaulter tracing has been a challenge as some of these patients are in hard-to-reach areas. Immunization, family planning, ANC, chronic diseases, and other defaulters can easily be tracked from the communities, and follow-up data will be easily generated by the CHVs. While doing this, the same data or information will become available to the doctors and health workers in the facilities for utilization.

Research Assistants

Community Health Volunteers

Clinicians

Facility In-charges

County level presentation - Health Departments

National Level Presentation (MOH)

 All qualified applicants will receive consideration for participation in the project and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, ancestry, or national or ethnic origin.

Diversity: We appreciate and leverage the many differences of project's participants from larger community, and we will  involve and reflect the various communities where we initiate the project  through partnership and open innovation.  Everyone should have a seat at the problem-solving table. 

Equity: We have designed this project to include people of all backgrounds a genuine opportunity to thrive. 

Inclusion: We strive to create an environment in which everyone feels valued and respected and not despise because of their cultural, religious or education background. We know that when solutions are designed with the most underserved populations in mind, they benefit everyone. 

We are a health-oriented education institution. We provide a lot of support to communities through community partnership activities.

Our key customers and beneficiaries are students and members of communities,

FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
This will be achieved by;
 Training multi sectorial teams family health approaches
 Training of all health service providers’ staff and  to empower community members through health education.
 Encouraging trained community local action groups to spear head family health program activities in their respective areas.
 Encouraging development of Kitchen gardening in every household to improve on food security.
 Encouraging multi sectorial partnership in Family Health program implementation activities.
 Use of the family health success data to apply for new funding from other donors.
 Encourage formation, creation and development of support groups that can continue beyond funding period to implement their own activities based on their areas of interest.
 Community encouraged to shun cultural practices that may affect full implementation of Family Health program.
 Encouraging development of Income Generating Activities (IGAs) for sustainability to the needy who cannot provide for themselves

Our institution receives grants government 

The students pay tuition fees which is the  revenue that we  have generated.