DIGITAL DATA COLLECTION AT FORT ST MICHEL - Metamorphose Development Foundation

DIGITAL DATA COLLECTION AT FORT ST MICHEL

Implementing organizations

Konbit Sante Cap-Haïtien, is a non-profit organization which, since its creation in 2001, has supported the development of a sustainable health system, meeting the needs of the community of Cap-Haïtien and its surroundings. Konbit Sante Cap-Haïtien is working with the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP), Fort St. Michel Health Center and other partners to achieve this goal. It supports both institutional health care and community health care. One of its priorities is maternal and child health.

Description

For programming reasons and to meet the requirements of the Ministry of Health, health personnel must collect large amounts of data. Currently, the data collection process is tedious and done manually. This results in wasted time, duplication of data entry, and the possibility of creating inaccuracies. Tablets can enable improved data quality, freeing up staff for higher quality monitoring. Two nurses and 10 community health workers based at Fort St-Michel (FSM), a center that serves a population of 100,000 people, will receive the tablets. This will allow them to conduct education services, home visits, referrals and basic services such as child vaccinations. The tablets will allow:

Improve the updating and accuracy of data that will be downloaded directly from the tablets.

To increase the duration of the collection of updated data by at least 50%, thus allowing an improvement in the monitoring and evaluation stages.

To reduce the workload of staff who, freed up, will provide better quality services.

Achievements December 2021- March 2022

Since the beginning, the project team focused on organizing the data needed to fill in the Antenatal Register and the Postpartum Register that community health workers must obtain or transmit to pregnant women during home visits. These items apply to visits from the start of pregnancy until the immediate postpartum period. The team will re-phrase these items in the form of questions and arrange them by order of visit. The questions will then be entered into the CommCare platform.

Attached is a picture of the community health program manager leading a discussion with the community health workers at Fort St. Michel Health Center about the tablets and digital data collection. The community health workers are eager to start using the tablets. However, they are concerned they will have to use both the paper and digital data collection forms as the paper forms are slowly phased out, thus doubling their work for a period of time.