ICHESS combines public health expertise with in-house IT engineering to design, deploy and secure the digital tools that health programs rely on: from field data collection to real-time monitoring dashboards and the analyses that guide decisions.

Design of electronic questionnaires and deployment of field surveys on secure servers, with real-time data transmission and quality checks.

Dashboards that allow ministries and partners to track program progress closely and correct course in time.

Design, hosting and management of program databases, and support for data quality in health information systems.

Geo-referenced databases and maps of health workers and services to identify coverage gaps, such as the first geo-referenced CHW database of Guinea-Bissau.

Costing, investment cases, bottleneck analysis (Tanahashi model) and impact estimation to support evidence-based planning.

Development of IT applications for health planning and costing, including with our partner Community Systems Foundation (CSF).

Our teams work with the open-source and industry-standard tools used by ministries of health and international partners, and adapt the choice of platform to each context, budget and data protection requirement.

The data entrusted to us by ministries of health, partners and communities is protected at every stage.

• Continuous network monitoring: our IT team uses automated scripts to monitor our systems, detect unauthorized or suspicious applications and disconnect them immediately, preventing any data leak or unauthorized extraction.
• Layered access control: access to our infrastructure is protected by multi-factor authentication at several levels, with an additional authentication layer for our most sensitive databases.
• Automatic backups: our data is backed up automatically to ensure business continuity and rapid recovery.

• Global Fund BIRCH project: investment mappings, maturity assessments and the first geo-referenced CHW database in Guinea-Bissau
• Mali 2020: IT applications to estimate the cost and impact of free health care, with CSF
• Reports & downloads: our latest study reports