Public Health: Notifiable disease reporting, community health workers and campaigns

Comprehensive HIV care and Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) management.

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Public Health in the Bridge HMS Suite: Notifiable disease reporting, community health workers and campaigns

Cohorts and control rates

Cohort reports, and enrolment, visits, gaps, DSD, regimens and complications in pivot and graph.

Conditions and targets

Conditions, control targets and lifestyle topics for counselling.

Outcomes and prevention

Treatment outcomes — active, transferred, lost, died — and PrEP clients with their follow-up visits.

The MoH 731, compiled

The MoH 731, and patients in care, viral loads, PrEP, follow-ups and NTD cases in pivot and graph.

Regimens, barriers and drugs

ART and PrEP regimens, adherence barriers, the NTD catalogue and MDA drugs.

Disease registries that answer questions

The registries dashboard, each registry with its enrolments and outcomes, and a cross-registry report.

Registry data elements

The data elements each registry collects.

Synced when the network returns, with nothing overwritten

The sync log, conflict-free CRDT operations, record state, device clocks and a priority queue that sends urgent records first.

What each role carries offline

Cache configurations and role profiles decide which records each device keeps.

What's inside

Everything in Public Health

53 items in 9 areas, every one shipping with the app today.

CCC Enrollment & Records
- Comprehensive Care Clinic enrollmentRegister PLHIV into the CCC with a dedicated HIV care enrollment record threaded with history and activities.
- Auto-generated CCC numbersEach enrollment gets a facility-YYYY-sequence CCC identifier auto-built from a no-gap sequence, unique per company.
- One-enrollment-per-patient guardThe app prevents a patient having more than one active HIV enrollment per company.
- Entry point captureRecords how the client entered care across 10 paths including VCT, PMTCT, TB clinic, MCH, STI, antenatal and key-population outreach.
- Patient type classificationFlags newly diagnosed, transfer-in, restart-after-default or vertical-transmission clients.
- HIV diagnosis detailsCaptures diagnosis date, confirming test type (rapid/ELISA/DNA-PCR/VL) and confirming test date.
Population, Disclosure & PMTCT
- Key population taggingClassifies clients into 9 key-population categories (MSM, FSW, PWID, prisoner, transgender, military, fisherfolk, refugee, general).
- Pregnancy & breastfeeding flagsRecords pregnant and breastfeeding status at enrollment for PMTCT tracking.
- Partner disclosure & statusCaptures whether partner was disclosed and the partner's HIV status.
- Index testing trackingRecords index-testing offer and number of index clients reached.
- OVC eligibility flagMarks orphans and vulnerable children eligible for OVC support programs.
ART Regimen Management
- ART regimen master catalogMaintain a configurable library of ART regimens with composition, therapy line and patient-type banding.
- Pre-seeded national regimens (Kenya 2024)Ships 8 ready-to-use regimens: adult TLD 1L, pediatric ABC/3TC/DTG and ABC/3TC/LPVr, 2L AZT/3TC/DTG and LPVr, 3L DRV/r+DTG, PrEP and PEP.
- Therapy line classificationCategorizes each regimen as 1L, 2L, 3L, PrEP or PEP.
- Weight-band pediatric regimensSupports adult and pediatric bands from under-3kg through 30kg-plus for correct dosing.
- Clinical dosing metadataEach regimen carries pill count, food requirement, side effects, contraindications and required monitoring.
- Drug product linkageLinks regimens to drug products for pharmacy and inventory integration.
Viral Load & CD4 Monitoring
- Viral load result registerRecords VL results with sample and result-received dates, copies/ml value and testing lab.
- Automatic VL status bandingAuto-classifies each result as LDL/undetectable, suppressed<200, low-level viraemia 50-999 or virological failure>=1000.
- Automatic suppression flagDerives suppressed and undetectable booleans directly from the VL value.
- Automatic EAC triggerFlags EAC-required whenever a VL is unsuppressed, linking triggered counselling sessions.
- Reason-for-test captureRecords why VL was drawn: routine 6/12-month, suspected failure, post-EAC, pregnancy or post-swap.
- Test method & lab referenceDocuments assay platform (Abbott, GeneXpert, Roche cobas, Alinity) and lab reference number.
Adherence & Counselling
- Enhanced Adherence Counselling workflow
- EAC status trackingTracks each session as planned, completed, missed or deferred.
- Adherence barrier catalogShips 15 pre-seeded, categorized adherence barriers (forgetfulness, side effects, stigma, food insecurity, etc.).
- Barrier tagging per sessionTag multiple identified barriers on each EAC session via many2many tags.
- Adherence assessment fieldsRecords pill-count adherence and pharmacy-refill adherence assessments per session.
- Post-EAC VL linkage & outcomeLinks the follow-up VL and records outcome after 3 sessions (suppressed, switched to 2L/3L, or ongoing EAC).
Clinical Registers
- Opportunistic infection registerRecords OIs across 16 types (TB variants, candidiasis, PCP, cryptococcal meningitis, Kaposi, etc.) with diagnosis date.
- OI severity & outcome trackingCaptures severity and treatment outcome (cured, improved, failed, died, lost) with completion dates.
- Differentiated Service Delivery modelsEnrols stable clients into 8 DSD models including fast-track, community ART groups, adherence clubs and MMD.
- Multi-month dispensingConfigures 1/3/6-month drug supply with refill interval and next pharmacy pickup dates.
- DSD eligibility flagFlags eligibility based on >12 months stable, suppressed VL, no active OI and age criteria.
- Patient outcome eventsRecords outcome events (transfer-out, defaulter, LTFU, death) with date and cause of death.
Appointments & Defaulter Tracing
- HIV appointment schedulingSchedules clinical visits, pharmacy refills, VL collections, EAC and group/club sessions per enrollment.
- Overdue/missed auto-flaggingAutomatically marks appointments missed when the scheduled date passes while still scheduled.
- Appointment status actionsOne-click buttons mark appointments completed or missed.
- Defaulter tracing outcomesRecords tracing attempts and outcomes (returned, refused, LTFU, transferred, died).
- Next-appointment roll-upEnrollment computes the next upcoming non-canceled appointment date.
- Appointment calendar & filtersCalendar view color-coded by type plus filters for scheduled, missed and refill/VL appointments.
Automation & Scheduled Checks
- Weekly VL-due scanScheduled job scans active patients and auto-creates VL-collection appointments using 6/12-month windows by time on ART.
- Daily defaulter & LTFU scanDaily check auto-flags defaulters at 28+ days and LTFU at 90+ days of missed refills, writing outcome events.
- Daily appointment remindersDaily check posts reminders to the history for next-day appointments, ready to connect to your SMS gateway.
- Monthly HIV care report auto-generation (MoH 731)Monthly job auto-creates and computes the prior month's HIV care report, in Kenya's MoH 731 format, for every facility with HIV care.
More in this app
- HIV care and treatment, by the guidelinesPatients in care at the CCC, those due for viral load, defaulters to trace, the enhanced adherence worklist and appointments.
- Viral load, CD4 and the ART historyViral loads and CD4 counts, opportunistic infections, DSD models and the full ART regimen history.
- Neglected tropical diseases in the communityIndividual cases, MDA campaigns with household dosing, and mapping and surveys.
- Registry enrolment and outcomesEnrolments and outcomes in pivot and graph.
- Community health work, household by householdHouseholds in each community unit, CHW visits for iCCM and MCH, referrals to the facility followed to completion, and the MoH 514 monthly summaries.
- Units and health workersCommunity health units and the CHWs and promoters who serve them.
- Forms that work with no signalOffline CHW visits, immunisations, vitals and a quick consult captured on the phone or tablet with no connection — saved on the device.
- Sync health, analysedSync log, device clocks, record state, queue and CRDT ops in pivot and graph.

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What Public Health works with

Public Health shares one database with the rest of the Bridge HMS Suite and BridgeERP: these are the apps it already talks to, with nothing to buy in between.