About DataToCare
Learn about what DataToCare is, its vision, the history of the product, the partners who helped its grow and articles published around it.
DataToCare Overview
Since 2016, DataToCare platform has been deployed in healthcare laboratories across Africa and South-East Asia, primarily within Tuberculosis (TB) programmes, but also in other healthcare initiatives focusing on HIV, malaria, hepatitis and other major communicable diseases.
DataToCare is an open-source software solution enabling connected diagnosis. In a nutshell, DataToCare is installed in laboratories and connects automatically to the diagnosis machines for collecting test results; those results are combined with patient information and then transmitted to a centralized server, traditionally located at the level of the Ministry of Health. The consolidated data are processed, depicted on summary dashboards and incorporated in periodic reports that are generated automatically. Diagnosis test results are also transmitted directly to the prescriber and the patient, thereby significantly reducing the time to initiate the treatment.
Overall, DataToCare can be shown not only to support laboratory staff and health programme managers in their daily operations, but also to drive tangible public health benefits and effectively save lives.
Vision
DataToCare is a suite of open-source all-in-one health management software. It optimizes the sustainability of healthcare by covering and digitizing all the steps across the continuum of care and its comprehensive array of health services in low and middle income countries.
History
It all started with a Belgian Doctor, a Congolese Developer and a prototype called GenXchange. During his thesis, Dr Emmanuel André published “Innovation from the field: GenXchange” based on his experience on the field in DRC in 2014. He developed with Benjamin Nyange and other field partners (such as the National TB Program of DRC) a prototype software with the aim to send, from the field laboratories, live data via SMS to the deciders, prescribers and patients. This improved the management of Xpert machines, cartridges and speeded up patient treatment.
The Catholic University of Louvain and Dr Emmanuel André decided to entrust the piloted prototype to Savics, a young Belgian social startup led by Xavier Morelle, Julie Vanvolsem and Louis-Carles Mosseray to scale and implement it worldwide. After assessing and analyzing the existing solution, Savics decided to develop a new software inspired from GenXchange.
Aïssa Ghouti, an Algerian-French, and Anatole Abé Etoumou, a Cameroonian, developed the first version of DataToCare and it was launched in August 2016.
They Support DataToCare
DataToCare has been implemented worldwide with the support of governmental bodies and multilateral organizations like WHO, the Global Fund, USAID and others.
DataToCare Partners
Articles & Publications
Read articles and publications recognizing DataToCare impact. This section includes media coverage of DataToCare projects, research findings and more.
