About Us

We envision a world where all clinicians have immediate access to current medical information.

Child/Family Focus: We focus on providing tools that support clinicians who promote the unique needs of children and families.

Cultural Sensitivity: We strive to build trust and mutual respect with our partners, and to promote health equity by minimizing cultural barriers to access to evidence-based medicine.

Empowerment: We strive to foster a sense of confidence, pride and self-efficacy among the clinicians we partner with, and to support their efforts to practice evidence-based medicine.

Kindness: We approach our partnerships with kindness and compassion, with a generosity of spirit and universal concern for the physical and mental welfare of all of our colleagues and friends worldwide.

Impact: We are dedicated to measuring and evaluating the impact of our work in order to endlessly refine our approaches for optimal efficacy.

Sustainability: We are committed to creating long-term, community-driven projects to improve clinicians’ access to evidence-based medicine. By investing in education and training, we create targeted projects that are tailored to unique needs, resources and cultures, and can be maintained after our initial site visits.

Our History

KidsCareEverywhere (KCE) was founded by Dr. Ron Dieckmann in 2006. Astonished during his global travels about the lack of current scientific information available to physicians treating sick children in poorly-resourced health settings, Ron imagined transforming medical services by improving physicians’ access to medical knowledge. The transformation he envisioned was digital and built around the mobile phone. While a Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at UCSF, in the early 2000s Ron had veered into the world of medical software and developed with Dr. Rob Pitt in Australia a bold new pediatric software tool viewable on both computers and mobile phones. They named it PEMSoft; it was the world’s first electronic pediatric knowledge system. After release of the first version of PEMSoft in 2005, Ron gifted the software to colleagues in Hanoi, Vietnam. He immediately perceived its monumental application in the poorly-resourced world, where physicians had only decades-old medical textbooks as information sources, even as they toted around modern smart phones. Ron surmised that physicians worldwide, almost all of whom owned mobile phones, would benefit from the mobile app and instant access to up-to-date information. Back in California, Ron knew his vision had legs, and he established KCE as a nonprofit charity to help doctors save children's lives through instant access to PEMSoft on mobile phones.

In 2013, PEMSoft was acquired by EBSCO, a multi-national information services company in Ipswich, MA, and PEMSoft was integrated into a larger generic software system called DynaMed. At the time of the acquisition, Ron entered into a philanthropic agreement with EBSCO that supported continued donations of the software in the low-income world through KCE. Since then, the unique partnership between KCE and EBSCO has flourished as EBSCO has shared its immense resources with KCE to help children worldwide. Over 16 years, KCE has gifted PEMSoft and DynaMed software to doctors in public hospitals in 23 countries on three continents: Africa, South America and Asia.