upSCALE: strengthening mobile health in Mozambique

upSCALE consists of a smartphone app that walks CHWs through patient registration, assists with diagnosis and advises on treatment and referrals, and a tablet-based app that allows supervisors to monitor CHW performance and stock levels.
Data entered by CHWs through the upSCALE app is visualised in the District Health Information System (DHIS2) at district, provincial and national levels of Mozambique’s health system. The ability to analyse local disease-specific trends in near realtime allows managers to improve their resource allocation. Between 2009 and 2016, Malaria Consortium developed and tested an interactive mobile phone application called inSCALE to improve the quality of care provided by CHWs in Inhambane province. Based on the trial’s success, we created the digital health platform upSCALE together with the Ministry of Health (MoH) and Unicef. Ever since, the platform has continued to evolve to respond to the needs of the country’s Community Health Workers’ Programme — known locally as National Program of Elemental Multipurpose Agents(PNAPE)

Project details

Diagnostics
Surveillance

May 2019 — Feb 2022

Mozambique

Institutionalising upSCALE into the Ministry of Health through stronger data ownership and data informed decision making for community health programmes