Success Stories

Accelerating Indonesia’s digital transformation through interoperable health information systems

CHISU is supporting Indonesia's Ministry of Health to make health data interoperable through electronic medical records via the country's health information system, SATUSEHAT. Read more ›

Strengthening malnutrition data systems in Madagascar

CHISU is supporting Madagascar's Ministry of Health to develop a system to collect and share data across different sectors working to improve nutrition in the country. Read more ›

Serbia digitalizes immunization records: A health system milestone

CHISU partnered with the Institute of Public Health “Batut” and the Serbian Ministry of Health to develop a centralized electronic immunization registry that can seamlessly track immunization records in 151 health institutions across Serbia. Read more ›

Simplifying malaria stratification in Kenya for country-led intervention mapping

CHISU developed a user-friendly malaria stratification tool that leverages the open-source software JAMOVI to analyze routine HMIS data. This novel approach does not require complex modeling, allowing NMCP staff to perform malaria stratification independent of donor support. Read more ›

Supporting Niger’s digital health transformation

CHISU partnered with Niger's Ministry of Health to accelerate the country's digital transformation, including launching of a dedicated unit for digital health, ensuring efforts align with digital health standards, and leading the development of a comprehensive national digital health master plan. Read more ›

Reducing data entry errors for improved data use to target malaria interventions in Ghana

CHISU supported the Ghana Health Service to improve malaria data by developing and deploying a semi-automated data validation and analysis tool in MS Excel to help data officers efficiently identify malaria data inconsistencies and incompleteness. Read more ›

Mentorship to improve data quality and use to combat malaria in Kenya

CHISU is supporting Kenya's Ministry of Health to improve data quality by equipping mentors with the knowledge and skills needed to support health workers for continuous data quality improvement. Read more ›

Standardizing population estimates to strengthen data quality and use in Côte d’Ivoire

CHISU worked in Cote d'Ivoire to harmonize population data indicators to ensure data consistency across health programs in the country. Read more ›

Easing health workers’ data entry burden using an interoperability mediator in Indonesia

CHISU worked closely with the Indonesia Ministry of Health’s Center for Data and Information and Technology (PUSDATIN) and Digital Transformation Office (DTO) to develop an interoperability mediator between the SATUSEHAT data exchange and analysis platform and the electronic medical records (EMR) systems that health facilities across the country use. This means that health workers only need to enter data once instead of multiple times, saving them valuable time. Read more ›

Developing an automated malaria bulletin application to strengthen data use in Malawi

CHISU supported the development and integration of a malaria bulletin into Malawi's national District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2) platform and provided subsequent training for malaria data users across the country to allow health workers to easily access malaria indicators. Read more ›

Bolstering Serbia’s ability to communicate about health data

CHISU consultant Filip Arnaut works at Serbia's national Institute of Public Health (IPH) Batut, where he has supported changes to the design, format, and dissemination of results in IPH Batut's annual statistical yearbook (a primary source of public health data in Serbia), ultimately allowing for public health staff to rethink - and ultimately revitalize - how they communicate about public health data in Serbia. Read more ›

Strengthening gender-responsive data use in Kenya

CHISU helped review and train a second cohort of malaria program staff on a malaria-focused epidemiology curriculum in Kenya in October 2023. Working closely with Dr. Maria Thuita, the epidemiology training coordinator, CHISU realized that the training curriculum did not have any content about the impact of gender or sociocultural factors on malaria transmission. After identifying this gap, CHISU decided to use the training to raise awareness among malaria program staff about the way gender norms and dynamics contribute to malaria exposure, prevention, and treatment. Read more ›

Ensuring accurate data informs the Democratic Republic of the Congo's strategic response to malaria

CHISU worked in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to conduct an analysis of malaria-related deaths reported by health facilities between January and December 2023. The analysis identified erroneously reported malaria-related deaths and, in coordination with the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP), CHISU guided the processes to correct these data for improved malaria data. Read more ›

Streamlining data quality assessments to strengthen malaria efforts in Kenya

CHISU supported the transformation of the malaria routine data quality assessment (mRDQA) tool in Kenya so that it is now accessible as an Android application that allows users to analyze malaria data as well as coordinate and plan routine data quality activities. This application helps streamline data quality assessment processes, providing decision makers with better-quality malaria data. Read more ›

Ensuring historical data is part of Mali’s malaria story for better decision making

Mali's National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) decided to migrate historical malaria data to its national District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2) platform, the country’s health information system platform that will also collect new malaria data in the future. CHISU supported NMCP in migrating the historical data to the national DHIS2 platform in collaboration with health information system (HIS) and malaria stakeholders, including NMCP, Laboratoire de biologie moléculaire appliquée (LBMA), VectorLink, and USAID. Read more ›

Bringing partners together to pilot a community health worker application in Sierra Leone

Prior to piloting the Community Health Information System (CHIS) tool in Sierra Leone, CHISU coordinated with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and other local organizations to ensure that the CHIS could meet the needs of both the MOH and the wider Sierra Leone population. CHISU is supporting development of the CHIS into an application that community health workers (CHWs) can use when they are providing care in their communities. Read more ›

Convening malaria experts in Burundi to better understand and address recent increases in the disease

CHISU is partnering with health information system stakeholders in Burundi to advance the country’s HIS progression through better coordination, data management, and data use for malaria data by supporting a technical working group (TWG) and holding data analysis review meetings. Read more ›

Catalyzing stakeholder commitment to improving electronic data capture in Ghana

CHISU, in collaboration with the Care Continuum Project and GHS’s Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation division (PPMED), convened a national e-Tracker review meeting in Ghana in January 2024. Read more ›

Strengthening malaria surveillance in Madagascar using data dashboards

In Madagascar, CHISU developed a weekly malaria surveillance dashboard to improve the analysis and communication of surveillance data for decision makers to have timely malaria data. The dashboard brings data together to support early detection of epidemiological trends and rapid adaptation of interventions—critical improvements for a more effective fight against malaria. Read more ›