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In the light of the new global paradigm of universal health coverage (UHC), the issue around the financing of health care services is receiving new and strong recognition by international partners and national governments. The early development and adoption of integrated digital tools plays a crucial role in a successful implementation of UHC strategies. The openIMIS Initiative was set up as a joint initiative by the Swiss and the German Development Cooperations to establish a community of users and developers around an Open Source software for the management of health financing schemes (openIMIS) and to provide for a seamless integration into the activities of related communities from the global digital health ecosystem such as the Open Health Information Exchange (OpenHIE) community. Currently being used to manage a variety of health insurance schemes in Nepal, Tanzania, Cameroon, Chad, and DRC, openIMIS offers seamless connections between beneficiaries, health service providers, and payers
There are ongoing discussions in the OpenHIE Health Financing towards UHC Subommunity on health financing workflows and the potential use of openIMIS as health financing reference technology.
See the openIMIS Workflows slide deck for an overview of this content, outlining ideas and propositions for how openIMIS can be leveraged as a potential OpenHIE health financing reference technology, along with sample draft workflows relevant to health financing.
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