Medic 70d ago

- In this session from the CHT (Community Health Toolkit) April Roundup, two critical updates are shared that every CHT implementer, system administrator, and community health technology team needs to know. Part 1: Lessons From Upgrading 30 CHT Instances from v4.22 to v5.1 — Nepal Yuvraj Rimal, Data Systems Lead at Medic, walks through the real-world experience of upgrading 30 production and 9 development CHT instances from version 4.22 to 5.1 — covering self-hosted, EKS, multi-cluster, and APS-hosted deployments across Nepal. Key lessons covered: - Why you need 5x your current CouchDB disk space during the upgrade — and what happens if you don't have it - How staging before applying the operator cut user downtime from 3 hours to just 17 minutes - Real disk space data: a 30GB instance on v4.22 reduced to 20GB after upgrading — a 33% reduction - How to handle legacy instances running as far back as CHT 2.x with data on non-standard paths - How to track disk usage every 30 seconds during the upgrade to stay in control The new features that made the upgrade essential: configurable SMS recipients and senders, task filtering, task prioritisation notifications, and new phone number format support. Part 2: The No-Code CHT Configuration Squad — Coming Soon Antony Khaemba introduces the upcoming No-Code CHT Configuration Squad — a community working group that will build a drag-and-drop form builder allowing non-technical health programme staff to update and configure CHT applications without needing a developer. What you'll learn: - Why the current configuration process is a bottleneck for most CHT deployments - What the No-Code Squad aims to build and how it fits into CHT's broader community squad model - How to get involved in the squad as a designer, developer, tester, or documentation contributor - The history of CHT's community squad model — launched October 2024 — and what it has already delivered: SSO, DHIS2–OpenFN interoperability, task prioritisation, and UI extensions 🔔 Subscribe for monthly CHT Roundup updates, implementation case studies, and open-source community health technology news. #opensourcehealth #CommunityHealthTech #digitalhealth #healthtech #globalhealth #healthinformatics #cht #communityhealthtoolkit #opensource #healthsystems #CHT51 #CHTUpgrade #NoCodeHealth #medicmobile #communityhealthtoolkit #healthdata #opensourcesoftware #healthcareit #LowResourceHealth #mobilehealth #CHTCommunity #HealthFormBuilder #nocodedevelopment #communityhealthworkers #DHISIntegration #OpenFN #taskmanagement #HealthDataSystems #DigitalHealthAfrica #healthtechinnovation