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CommCare- What is it Good For?
1- Explore this: You can get a good overview of what CommCare is by reading through the public CommCare site.
2- Watch this:
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3- Read this:
CommCare is a mobile case management tool for tracking clients through a continuum of care. It aims to help frontline workers more accurately track and support the registration, follow-up, and completion of care for clients in their communities. It runs as a mobile application on a mobile phone and is built on a decision & logic-processing platform that can support workers to deliver care, as well as provide critical data-quality checks at the point of service.
There are two pieces to CommCare:
- CommCareMobile is the mobile-device part of CommCare. This could be a phone, tablet, or someone entering data using a computer.
- CommCareHQ is the website/portal where data can be accessed and workers managed.
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CommCare can be used for a number or purposes or combination of purposes. The main uses include:
- Data collection
- Decision support
- Job aid
- Counseling tool
In general, CommCare is used as part of larger project.
One other important thing to know is that CommCare is developed by a company called Dimagi. CommCare is Dimagi's flagship project, but Dimagi also works on a number of other mobile-based technologies.
CommCare Structure
CommCare is structured in several different levels, as far as applications are concerned.
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Each project has its own Workspace on CommCareHQ with its own name.
For example, I have there is a workspace called “helpsite” where we keep applications that used on the help site. I called We decided on the workspace it helpsite because it is simple and easy to remember. Whenever I visit a page in my workspace I can see “helpsite” in the address. For example, reports from the helpsite workspace are located here:
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A workspace can have one application or many applications. Those applications can all be separate, or they can communicate with each other using “case management,” which we will discuss later.
To have access to a workspace, you must have a CommCareHQ/web user account (more about web users later in this module)
As a web user, if you create, or are invited to, multiple project spaces, after logging into CommCareHQ you will be able to choose which space you want to work in. Data are not shared among project spaces, so unless you invite someone else to your workspace, no one will be able to see your application or your data.
Applications
An application can be very simple, or extremely complicated.
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