Tag: Georegistry
In fields like public health, access to comprehensive geographic data is crucial for designing targeted and effective interventions. That’s exactly the need Bluesquare set out to meet with IASO, its geographic data management platform now rolled out in 14 countries. Let’s dive into the 5 essential features that make IASO a go-to georegistry solution.
In the vast Democratic Republic of Congo, managing and updating health system geographic data is a major challenge. While the National Health Information System Directorate (DSNIS) uses DHIS2, it falls short in addressing key issues of data validation, control, and coordination. To overcome this, DSNIS adopted IASO, Bluesquare’s open-source georegistry, through the USAID PROSANI project.
IASO is an open-source platform for digitalizing health campaigns with geospatial precision. It supports planning, field execution, monitoring, and data reuse across campaigns. User-friendly and configurable without coding, it empowers national health teams from immunization to malaria, nutrition and NTDs interventions.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), fragmented health facility data poses significant challenges to resource allocation and service delivery. IASO is implemented in the DRC to identify health facilities location and their available equipment and improve healthcare access assessment.
IASO has partnered with LifeNet International to develop a unified M&E platform that spans six countries—Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Malawi, and Ghana. This platform integrates geo-structured data collection, decentralized user management, and seamless DHIS2 integration, empowering LifeNet to improve healthcare coordination across its extensive network.
In Cameroon, the micro-planning of vaccination campaigns has traditionally been a manual, often cumbersome process. The digitization of this process, particularly through tools like IASO, marks a significant advancement in enhancing the efficiency and impact of these campaigns.
Two districts in Burkina Faso happened to have very low COVID-19 vaccination coverage. IASO was used to conduct a household survey according to pre-defined geographic areas, in order to guide future vaccination strategies.
