Community Health
Turn household visits into guided workflows and real-time program oversight.
The Challenge
Community health programs run large frontline networks across hard-to-reach populations, often with little real-time visibility.
High worker turnover
New frontline staff need fast, hands-on onboarding.
Following clinical protocols
Workers must apply complex, multi-step care guidelines.
Tracking medicines and supplies
Stockouts at the last mile disrupt frontline care.
CommCare for Community Health Programs
Build a complete register of every household
- Enumerate households with GPS catchment mapping
- Hold a case record for every family member
- Auto-tag each household into a community health worker caseload
Guide workers through every protocol, every visit
- Step through assessment with built-in danger-sign checklists
- Auto-generate referrals and follow-up visits
- Capture everything offline in low-connectivity catchments
See every worker and catchment in real time
- Track visits, active days, and overdue follow-ups per worker
- Spot inactive workers and at-risk catchments early
- Message a community health worker to follow up from the dashboard
Stream data straight to the national HMIS
- Track households registered, visit coverage, and indicator achievement
- Break results down by region and program area
- Push live to DHIS2 and the national health management information system (HMIS) with one OData connection
Want to see how this would work for your community health program?
Talk to our teamCommunity health programs built on CommCare
From national eCHIS systems in Africa to frontline community health worker programs in rural highlands, here’s what teams have built on CommCare.
National community health systems, in 9 African countries
Nine African governments run their national eCHIS on CommCare, configuring and sustaining the platform themselves at a fraction of typical enterprise cost.
Upscale: National iCCM for child illness
Guided diagnosis and treatment for pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria, with data flowing into DHIS2.
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Suaahara II: community health at national scale
A USAID program that registered 2 million households and reached 10 million people across rural Nepal.
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USAID DHA: Ethiopia’s national eCHIS
Built with JSI and Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health so Health Extension Workers can register, deliver, refer, and report.
Read the case studyFrontline community health, across every use case.
Use the power of CommCare to run community health programs end to end, across every use case.
One platform, every workflow.
From service delivery and monitoring to research and engagement, the same platform adapts to whatever your community health program needs. Pick a use case to see how it tunes.
- No-code workflows for frontline teams
- Offline-first, multi-language, multi-country
- Real-time dashboards and donor-ready reporting