Health system coordination platform for Zambia referral tracking and capability-aware routing across facilities and community health workers. FHIR-native, IAF-aligned, offline-first
# BioVerse
**Health system coordination platform for Zambia** — referral tracking and capability-aware routing across facilities and community health workers. FHIR-native, IAF-aligned, offline-first.
## The problem
Zambia's health systems exist but do not coordinate. SmartCare Pro holds patient records (~2,000+ facilities), eLMIS tracks supply (~2,600–3,000 facilities), DHIS2 aggregates reporting, the ZHFR/MFL registers facilities — and the ~96,000-strong community health workforce sits outside all of them.
The seam where this fragmentation kills people is the **referral**: today a paper triplicate form with no acknowledgement, no tracking, no transport coordination, and no feedback loop — a documented direct contributor to maternal and neonatal mortality.
## The evidence
- When Zambia fixed referral coordination *manually* (Saving Mothers Giving Life, 2012–2016), institutional maternal mortality in intervention districts fell **37.6%**. BioVerse digitises that coordination.
- Simple rules beat models in this context: a missing-data *alert* in Rwanda cut ART-eligible-but-not-started patients from 29.6% to 6.2%, while the Epic Sepsis Model (405k training encounters) caught only 33% of cases in external validation. BioVerse uses explainable rules and state machines, never learned per-person predictors.
See DESIGN.md for the full evidence base and system design.
## What BioVerse is NOT
- **Not an EHR** — clinical truth lives in SmartCare Pro; BioVerse links to it.
- **Not a supply system** — BioVerse *reads* eLMIS so stock informs routing; it never re-tracks stock.
- **Not a predictive digital twin** — coordinate, don't predict. The only "twin" is the care-journey view: a live, linked record of real referrals and encounters.
## What exists today (Phase 0)
- Repo structure, authoritative data model (migrations 0001–0007: facilities, users, identity/matching, referrals + append-only event log, stock read-model, audit log, sync cursors)
- Docker Compose dev env …