Nexleaf Team Voices: The Opportunities & Challenges of Continuous IoT Sensor Data Nexleaf Software Engineer Chris Combs reflects on why our data is special – and especially challenging. Read on to learn why IoT sensor data is primed for AI. As an engineer, time series data produced by IoT devices is one of my favorite […]
Nexleaf Event Seeks to Elevate Medical Equipment Data to a Global Priority Through our work to scale RTM for the vaccine cold chain, we at Nexleaf have partnered with Ministries of Health, refrigerator manufacturers, tech innovators, implementing partners, and global multilateral organizations. We’ve learned that almost every player in the medical equipment ecosystem is frustrated […]
Mobilizing Continuous Data from Medical Devices in Clinics Yields a Multitude of Actionable Insights Too many health facilities in low-income countries can’t provide lifesaving care because basic medical equipment is absent or broken. Even when devices like infant incubators and CPAP machines are present on site, they frequently break down. Due to the lack of […]
Nexleaf’s ColdTrace Transport app helps health workers keep vaccines safe during distribution trips, and aggregated Transport data helps Ministries of Health plan more effectively. ColdTrace Transport is scaling up to all of Tanzania, thanks in large part to our human-centered design approach. Nexleaf Product Manager Jill Moraa shares her perspective on the value of engineers […]
EXCEPTIONAL EFFORTS IN THE EFFECTIVE USE OF DATA by Nelima Otipa, Senior Program Manager for Impact, Nexleaf Analytics Introduction In our line of work, it’s not uncommon to witness individuals facing significant challenges in their efforts to provide proper healthcare to the population. Within these challenges, we often discover remarkable stories of everyday events that […]
Nexleaf CTO and Co-Founder Martin Lukac moderated a thought-provoking panel on Data Rights in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Joined by virtual panelists from the Tanzania Ministry of Health and the Nexleaf Senior Program Manager for Impact, the discussion centered around the importance of data ownership and control for countries to ultimately benefit from the data […]
When Power Failure Meets Life-Saving Equipment Just how important is consistent electricity to healthcare? As medical equipment floods low- and middle-income countries, there is an urgent need to ensure those investments generate the intended health impacts. However, very little data exists to appropriately address a country’s context and barriers to equipment use, including reliable power […]
A New Era of Data Availability in Clean Cooking? How technology is changing the way we think about monitoring, reporting, and verification. It’s long been an open secret that improved cookstoves projects claiming emissions reductions and selling carbon offsets are most likely overestimating their impact. All clean cooking projects include some element of impact […]
The 10 district pilot of Trek in Tanzania continues, 68 vaccine distribution trips were monitored between June and July in the districts of Geita and Mwanza. After conducting the first analysis to examine the trips utilizing Trek, we can glean some initial findings. While the data is preliminary, it does give us early insight and […]
We’re thrilled to celebrate a recent success with our long-time partner, the Kenyan Ministry of Health, in safely delivering Covid-19 vaccines. Since receiving a shipment of over 880,000 Moderna vaccines in August, the Ministry of Health has worked closely with our team to use Nexleaf sensors to monitor the vaccines as they travel from the […]