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Dimagi Academy Gets a New Course: CommCare Calculations!
We are excited to announce the release of our newest course, CommCare Calculations, which will guide you through a series of tutorials and practice exercises for complex calculations in CommCare.
Product Updates
August 21, 2019
Remembering Dr. Marc Mitchell
It is with great pride and gratitude that we share our memories of the late Dr. Marc Mitchell, a pioneer of digital health, who passed away in June.
Staff Blog
August 20, 2019
Do No Harm With the NHS Digital Health Guidelines
England’s National Health Service (NHS) consulted with industry experts, academics, and more to develop a code of conduct for data-driven health and care technology. We're happy to see that many of the principles sound awfully familiar.
Staff Blog
August 14, 2019
Updated CommCare Evidence Base: 20 New Studies Added!
We have updated our Evidence Base with new studies from countries like Burkina Faso, India, and the United States, which show that the evidence for CommCare as a tool to improve the performance of FLWs and the health of their clients has only strengthened.
Product Updates
August 8, 2019
Terre des hommes’ IeDA Program Wins Excellence Award at the Global South eHealth Observatory
On July 1st, 2019, in front of an audience of health consultants, ministry of health officials, and mHealth-focused NGOs at the fourth conference of the Global South eHealth Observatory in Lavaur, France, Terre des hommes’ Electronic Register of Consultations (REC) application earned our partners another award. The award was one of five given to the
Staff Blog
July 10, 2019
How Dimagi is Helping to Eliminate Malaria
At Dimagi, we are proudly using our expertise and resources to work alongside many organizations in the fight against malaria, taking a number of different approaches to tackling the disease.
Staff Blog
July 2, 2019
5 Tips for Baseline and Endline Surveys
There is a lot that goes into properly conducting both baseline and endline surveys, from scheduling to audience selection and survey design. Here are five considerations for better surveys, giving you cleaner, more accurate data.
Staff Blog
June 6, 2019
Gaining Momentum in the Fight Against Child Mortality
Rapid advances in mobile technology and connectivity continue to open up opportunities for us to make a difference, and one area where we’re seeing improvement is in child mortality. Here's a look at how it has improved over the last 100 years.
Staff Blog
May 27, 2019
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What Every Developer Should Know About CouchDB
A little more than five years ago, I started working with CouchDB. I had recently joined Dimagi, and before I arrived on the scene, Dimagi had found some success using CouchDB in one of our largest projects at the time, an offline EMR in Zambia. We chose CouchDB because of its replication capabilities, which let us keep data
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New CommCare Form Builder Improvements Released
The CommCare team is excited to roll out some improvements to the CommCare form builder today. The following changes simplify the way users interact with the form builder. We updated the following in the form builder: the top-level navigation, question properties, and multi-select checkboxes. Read below to learn more! 1) Top-level navigation Here’s a blank
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