CommCare for Universities & Research Teams

Increase the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of your field-based work

Work Efficiently with Data You Can Trust

Build powerful mobile apps that empower your frontline
teams to capture accurate data or build impactful interventions.

 

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Field-tested tools for data collection
and service delivery at scale

Collect the cleanest data possible

Stop data-entry errors before they occur with fully customizable forms, intelligent validation conditions and skip logic. Empower your frontline team to only collect accurate, relevant data with highly-optimized context sensitivity workflows.

Enforce your study design without making compromises

Leverage the flexibility of CommCare to design and enforce research protocols unique to your study. CommCare is proven to be effective across study designs, ranging from Intervention Research, RCTs, Cross-sectional studies and more.

Comply with strict regulatory & security standards

Make your IT Security team happy. With CommCare, your data is always encrypted and stored in a HIPAA, GDPR, and SOC2 compliant environment. Tighten security further with roles-based data access, data de-identification, two-factor authentication, and more. CommCare is also 21 CFR Part 11-ready.

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Powering a range of research, CommCare advances global development research

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Trusted by Universities &
Research Teams Globally

CommCare is both the most widely-used and most-widely researched digital tool for frontline work. If you would like to learn more about CommCare’s impact on frontline programs, visit our evidence base here. Read below to learn about some of the exciting studies our partners are leading across the world.

Experimental Research on Digital Tools for Community Health Workers with Mobile Technology in Rural Guatemala

“CommCare has streamlined our ability to collect, review, and analyze data across various projects, including child nutrition surveillance and type 2 diabetes management. The intuitive user interface makes it simple to train our team of community health workers, and the ability to incorporate decision-support protocols and branching logic within CommCare has allowed them to provide services with remote physician supervision typically reserved for more highly trained personnel.”

Alejandro Chavez | Data Analyst & Consultant for Mobile Technology

Stanford University & The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Longitudinal Cohort Study On Ear Biometrics For Patient ID & Tracking in Zambia

“We created forms in CommCare that helped us track infants longitudinally, capturing ear data every month. Based on the way we were able to set up registration, we could send out automatic reminders to patients when they were due at the clinic for their next follow-up, as well as auto-populate the correct form based on the infant’s date of birth captured on registration. Since this study was aimed at determining ear growth over the course of the first 9 months of life, we used specific follow-up forms to group our data for analysis”

Lauren Etter | Research Assistant & Project Manager

Boston University School of Public Health

Implementation Research on TB Contact Investigation in Uganda

“CommCare has helped ease our data collection and improve our communication with frontline health workers. CommCare is easy for our community health workers to use and works well for implementation science research by providing a real-world data tool. CommCare has helped us to provide better feedback on health worker performance and improve our data quality.”

Amanda Gupta | Research Associate

Yale University School of Public Health

A Large-Scale HIV Behavioral Intervention Trial for Youth at Risk of HIV in the USA

“We recently used CommCare for electronic data collection and monitoring in a large multi-site longitudinal study to evaluate the impact of HIV interventions in two US cities. Studies of this magnitude and complexity are always accompanied by challenges. Thanks to thoughtful input from the Dimagi team on the front end and the robustness and flexibility of the CommCare system, the development of data collection protocols to meet our needs and data collection were not part of those challenges.”

W. Scott Comulada, DrPH | Professor-in-Residence

UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

Dimagi’s Experts Are Here for You

Whether you need support designing a mobile app for M&E or
troubleshooting a data issue, Dimagi’s global team is here to help.

  • Technical Support team available 24/7

  • Customer Success team offering flexible remote trainings

  • Solutions Delivery of ICT4D experts offering app-building services and deployment support

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