MediCapt App

"MediCapt is a mobile application, under development by the Program on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones at Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), to help clinicians more effectively collect, document, and preserve forensic medical evidence of sexual violence to support the local prosecution of these crimes."

The tool is designed to convert a standardised medical intake form for forensic documentation to a digital platform and combines it with a secure mobile camera to facilitate forensic photography. "By combining these components, MediCapt will help preserve critical forensic medical evidence of mass atrocities, including sexual violence and torture, for use in courts. Health care providers will use the app to compile medical evidence, photograph survivors’ injuries, and securely transmit the data to authorities engaged in prosecuting and seeking accountability for such crimes."

Click here to read about how the tool can support systematic documentation. "Among its many ...features, MediCapt includes ...encryption, cloud data storage, high fidelity to chain of custody standards, and tamper-proof metadata. The app’s data mapping feature reveals patterns or prevalence of violence, including the widespread or systematic nature of offences critical to demonstrating crimes against humanity. MediCapt also facilitates early warning of and rapid response to mass crimes. ...[T]the app is designed to ....collect data in conflict zones, as well as remote locations where wireless data transmission is limited. The tool can also accommodate the various languages and literacy levels of its users."

Click here to read about MediCapt pilot training in January 2014 in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Click here to read about the March 5 2014 PHR workshop presentation of the app at RightsCon, a summit series on the open internet.