CommCare Fundamentals

Welcome to CommCare 101 - an overview to what CommCare is and how it works!

In order to become receive any type of CommCare certification, you must demonstrate an understanding of the learning objectives in this section. If you are new to CommCare, this should also give you a good understanding of how CommCare works.

What is CommCare?

You can get a good overview of what CommCare is by reading through the public CommCare site.

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:

1. CommCareMobile is the mobile-device part of CommCare. This could be a phone, tablet, or someone entering data using a computer.
2. CommCareHQ is the website/portal where data can be accessed and workers managed.

CommCare can be used for a number or purposes:

• Data collection
• Decision support
• Job aid
• Counseling tool
  
  

In general, CommCare is used as part of larger project.

CommCare is developed by a company called Dimagi.

How Does Data Move in CommCare?

(insert image)

CommCare mobile can operate with or without signal. If a form is completed and signal is not available, the form is kept on the phone until network access is available. However, if a phone is lost or damaged before the form data is submitted, that data is lost.

Case Management

(link to prezi)

Mobile and Web Users

There are two types of users in CommCare:

• Mobile Users - 
• Web (CommCareHQ) Users -

Getting Started

Congratulations, you've completed CommCare Fundamentals! Now that you understand the core concepts of CommCare, it's time to Get Started.