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To utilize openIMIS optimally, it is best to start by outlining and describing your organisation’s processes, particularly, how information is or shall be processed. The software’s functionality can be customised and user roles defined based on your organisation’s procedures and offered services and in accordance to your policies on how to manage claims. We suggest that you use the Requirements Analysis template in reflecting on your business processes and the appropriateness and relevance of openIMIS to your system.
Once structures of the scheme are mirrored in openIMIS, it is ready for implementation.
Additional requisites might relate to health insurance acts to provide legal bases for the insurance entity. With You will need to consider that with the implementation of openIMIS some regulatory amendments might be required for electronic processing of data, which could have an implication on the health financing/insurance act or any legal basis of your system.
It is no surprise that openIMIS will need resource and material investment to run at optimal capacity. We list down the Resource requirements for openIMIS to give your organization an overview of what this investment contains. We have also developed a Costing Tool, which you can use to estimate how this investment translates to monetary terms.
Communicating and advocating the change
At the preparation stage external consulting support might be helpful, to define roles and actors from the insurance body, relevant ministries (Health, Finance) and involve key stakeholders of insurance implementation.
Introduction of openIMIS should be ideally initiated, once all legal and operational procedures of the insurance scheme are defined and approved.
Once structures of the scheme are mirrored in openIMIS, it is ready for implementation.
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