Dental Hub: Launch
Put Your Data Where Your Mouth Is.
Jevaia doesn't invent a lot of revolutionary or complicated schemes. We take evidence-based information and buckle down putting it into practice using a rights-based approach. We didn't create dental public health, or human rights, but we do spend a lot more time than average putting them together in the real actual world.
And all that work is documented on piles, and piles, and piles of paper.
Dental Hub is an open-source companion app to the Basic Package of Oral Care (BPOC), a suite of simple dental treatments that the World Health Organization has been promoting for about 25 years, especially for frontline care in limited resource settings. But the number of countries where the BPOC is systematically used in the national health care system? Actually, we don't know of any. (Shout out to Cambodia, where they're also working on it.)
But that's exactly what our project models. And for the last few years, our technicians have been using Dental Hub alongside their paper records when delivering the BPOC in government health posts, schools, and community spaces.
Dental Hub allows frontline dental care providers to collect key public health indicators and track the way they are delivering the BPOC by age group, geography and more. This data syncs to a database that makes it possible for us to visualize the pattern of care and other analytics in near real-time from the field.
Dental Hub is made to guide implementation of the BPOC toward a systematic, evidence-based model of care, which is what it was designed for many years ago. Having navigated some bumps in the road trying to get Dental Hub working right, we are diving in to version 2.0 with a full-court press. We wholeheartedly believe that Dental Hub will be used by agencies large and small, all over the world, to bring the BPOC into systematic practice. Standard global indicators and analytics from combined databases will have potential to bring a level of accountability, standardization and global impact to the BPOC that hasn't been realized yet...but can be. In the real, actual world! We know because we see it every day.
Let's do this!
