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UiO new generation Android Capture app is to be released in Aug 2018. It will replace the current Data, Event and Tracker Capture apps. To work, it will require DHIS 2.29 (or greater) as its backend.
We will release the App for Beta testing in July, 9 th. Register here to be a Beta tester!!
The new user experience is centred around the frontline health worker as its main user. It is based on ‘activities’ – the app doesn’t make any distinction between DHIS2’s three data domains (aggregate, events, tracker). New rendering options are to be offered to facilitate data collection, including the use of fully pictorial layouts for simple surveys.
UiO will also release a SDK to facilitate the development of Android Apps for specific use cases. The SDK streamlines data & metadata synchronization fast tracking the development of offline apps in the most efficient way. For this we use new optimized API endpoints and metadata sync services, which are only available from DHIS 2.29 or greater.
To follow the evolution of the App, please see the DHIS2’s Jira Android App Dashboard. It contains every single feature or modification that is on the development roadmap. You will need to register as a Jira user.
DHIS2’s Jira Android App Dashboard
The Jira Dashboard charts the evolution of the DHIS2 Android App - login into Jira to see the dashboard here
Background
During mid 2017 we conducted two surveys:
- of ongoing Android projects and their characterics
- Voting of DHIS2 Android features required by the community
1- Community Voting Process - results of voting (July 2017)
Community consultation of key features to be implemented on future Android app, ranked by voting score:
Rank | Feature (organized by Score) | Voting score |
---|---|---|
01 | 17. Do not delete data when a user logs out. | 55 |
02 | 39. Improve log in process | 53 |
03 | 44. Analytic tools | 53 |
04 | 42 Multi-language support interface and meta-data. | 46 |
05 | 35. Encrypt data base | 42 |
06 | 49. Referrals | 42 |
07 | 37. Lock app to prevent unauthorised access | 42 |
08 | 18. Hierarchy as a tree | 41 |
09 | 32. Send alarms through SMS from Android app | 40 |
10 | 28. Images per Program stage, data element, options | 40 |
11 | 22. Select GPS from Map | 40 |
12 | 34. Access auditing | 37 |
13 | 51. "Working lists" (operational reports) | 36 |
14 | 21. Online search with bigger scope | 35 |
15 | 23. Cascading drop downs for facility selection | 34 |
16 | 45. Data analysis by user | 34 |
17 | 40. Improve usability of "Complete/Incomplete" | 34 |
18 | 47. Inter-stage dependencies | 33 |
19 | 50. Task assignment | 33 |
20 | 33. Show last value of a field in data entry screen | 33 |
21 | 20. Multi-user | 33 |
22 | 26. Force search before registering TEI | 32 |
23 | 46. Health workers management | 31 |
24 | 29. Multimedia library. | 30 |
25 | 48. Maps | 29 |
26 | 24. Critical Info per program | 28 |
27 | 31. Sections in Enrollment | 28 |
28 | 38. Multiple access Failure | 27 |
29 | 30. Profile picture for tracked entity instances | 26 |
30 | 19. Lock records after a number of days configured | 26 |
31 | 25. Data Elements evolution chart | 25 |
32 | 41. Color set and Icon customization | 24 |
33 | 43. Splash screen customization | 23 |
34 | 15. Changing programs from the patient dashboard | 21 |
35 | 14. Create TEI from relationships | 20 |
36 | 27. Hiding of completed and cancelled enrolments when searching for TEI | 20 |
37 | 16. Description in Program Stage Section | 18 |
38 | 36. Limited search results | 15 |
2- Ongoing Android Projects and characteristics
Results survey May-June 2017
Theses answers correspond to 54 projects. 67 % of them were ongoing, 29 % planned and 4 % were already finished.
Of those answers, 35% are run by Ministries of health and 34% by International NGOs
All ongoing projects are in the health domain. Android projects in other domains are present, but their representation is minimal.
Almost 50% of the projects are either medium size (up to 100 devices) or large (up to 250 devices). There is a significant number of Extra Large projects (more than 1,000 devices)
In the big majority of projects (67%) users do not share devices to collect data.
The most used DHIS2 Android App is Tracker Capture, which is used in 69% of the projects, followed by Event Capture (41%), Dashboard (39%) and Data Capture (30%).
22% of the organizations have developed their own Android Apps.
In 85% of the Tracker programs using Android, the tracked entity is a Person.
From all the projects who reported to be tracking people, 74% are health beneficiaries, clients or patients.
Only in 13 % of the projects, users report data from one single activity. In more than half of them (63%) data is collected from 2 to 5 different activities, while in 24 % the number of different activities is greater than 5.
In 32% of the projects users collect data from only one organisation unit. The most common case is collection across 2 to 5 organisation units.
Health Care Providers (67%) together with Community Health Workers (57%) represent the main users in current projects. Users from coordination positions are present in 43 % of the projects, followed by Laboratory technicians (19%).
All types of data collection are evenly represented across the surveyed projects. Projects working in Reactive mode are the less common, but still they constitute a 39% of the projects.
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