Case Study: Medical Teams International achieves real-time disease surveillance and faster diagnoses for 1M+ South Sudanese refugees in Uganda with Microsoft Power BI

Using Microsoft cloud services to transform health care for more than 1 million South Sudanese refugees in Uganda

Medical Teams International, a nonprofit running clinics in Ugandan refugee settlements that serve more than 1 million patients a year, faced slow, error-prone paper-based reporting (77 forms) that delayed outbreak detection and strained staff as clinic coverage expanded. To digitize and scale care, Medical Teams partnered with Cambia and adopted Microsoft cloud technologies — including the Azure platform and Microsoft Power BI — to automate data collection and analysis.

Using a mobile app connected to Azure and dashboards built with Microsoft Power BI, Medical Teams International replaced manual forms with near-real-time reporting and automated alerts. The solution cut data-entry errors by 90%, drove untested malaria prescriptions from over 50% to below 5%, reduced the time to detect outbreaks from weeks to days, eliminated hours of daily error correction by clerks, and is being scaled toward all 40 clinics serving the refugee population.

Medical Teams International

Patrick Taylor

Director of Technology