Driving impact and efficiencies
Unpack our current projects and learn how our biometric tools are making a real difference to local communities.
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Biometric technology for the last mile in Ghana
This is a ground-breaking project for biometrics in healthcare. We’re rolling out the first biometric technology designed for the last mile and for frontline health workers with contact and contactless biometric modalities.
Impact
- Unique medical records are being created – eliminating duplicates and ensuring reliable data on the number of people immunised
- More precise coverage rate data
- Faster interventions
Supporting the digital revolution of health systems in Ethiopia
We’re part of the innovative roll-out of the electronic community health information system (eCHIS) in Ethiopia. As part of this huge project, patients will be registered and verified via fingerprint on Simprints Vero scanners.
Biometric authentication boosts HEWs' record retrieval speed by 10x
Health Extension Workers (HEWs) can retrieve patient records ten times faster using biometric authentication compared to the traditional manual name search. This improvement in efficiency allows HEWs to provide quicker and more accurate healthcare services.
Discrepancies in woreda from 39% to less than 5%
An FMoH official reported that Routine Data Quality Audits showed a reduction in data discrepancies in the woreda from 39% to less than 5% over the past three years, thanks to the biometrically enabled electronic community health information system.
Community and Health Extension Worker satisfaction
Community members and HEWs reported that biometric systems have significantly increased client satisfaction. This is due to reduced queuing times, making healthcare services more efficient and accessible, and enhancing the overall experience for clients.
Biometrics for children under five in Bangladesh
Whilst biometrics is well known to be a safe and reliable means of managing unique identity for adults, their use for children under the age of 5 has not been considered to be technically or practically possible. Until now.
In partnership with NEC and with support from Gavi, Simprints innovated the capability to capture high-quality images of fingerprints from children as young as nine months old and then algorithms were developed to match and verify those children’s identities based on their fingerprints.
Verifying life-changing eye surgeries in Ethiopia
The neglected tropical disease, trachoma trichiasis, is a significant health problem in Ethiopia. The country has over half the world’s global burden of the disease, which can be remedied through eye surgeries. Unfortunately, a large backlog of surgeries hinders efforts to eradicate the disease.
The Operation Sight programme, led by Orbis and backed by the Childrens Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), focuses on clearing this backlog by accelerating the number of surgeries and follow-up appointments taking place – which are vital to ensuring post-surgery sight is restored.
Trichiasis patients
To date we have recorded more than 23,000 trichiasis patients on the digital platform with 85% of eye surgeries, biometrically.
Quality improvement
86% of eye-care workers reported that biometrics-integrated digitisation has improved the quality of service provided and overall outcomes for patients.
Efficiency
Over 90% of eye-care workers were satisfied with identifying patients using biometrics and 72% reported that the system saved them time.
Strengthening Community Health Worker capacity in rural Uganda
Simprints is working to expand the capacity of frontline Community Health Workers (CHWs) in rural Uganda to effectively deliver immunisation vaccines that fight infectious diseases such as COVID-19, HPV, Hep B, and Tetanus. Our work is building a foundational base for scale across the routine immunisation portfolio.
Data availability
Biometric digitisation ensures that individual-level data is available and there are no program drop-outs.
3x faster
Enrolment is 3x faster now that the program is digitised using biometrics.
Increased coverage
Health Workers can administer more vaccines, more effectively.
Fighting neglected tropical diseases in Ethiopia
This project has the potential to define an ‘end game’ for soil-transmitted helminths (STH) and schistosomiasis (SCH). Interrupting transmission of these infections would eliminate the need for long-term repeated mass drug administration (MDA), lead to sustained health improvements in children, and allow health systems to focus on other disease priorities.
Simprints was engaged in the Geshiyaro project to biometrically verify the proportion of the population that was treated with deworming drugs. We’re testing the feasibility of interrupting transmission at a large scale within a health system, through mass drug administration and complementary interventions (e.g. water, sanitation, and hygiene). This will sustain disease reductions and develop a working model for scaling up transmission interruption in Ethiopia and other countries.
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