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Health protection schemes, such as a Social Health Insurance, require a very efficient implementation of multiple, complex business processes for success. Scheme operators in low and middle-income countries struggle to achieve efficiencies in their implementations without the appropriate use of digital technologies. However, they are faced with the challenge of expensive licensing fees for software that could help them gain these efficiencies.

openIMIS is an open source software tool that aims to fill this gap for the digitalisation and efficient management of health financing workflows. Currently being used to manage a variety of health protection schemes in Nepal, Tanzania, Cameroon, Chad, and DRC, openIMIS offers seamless connections between beneficiaries, health service providers, and payers. Without licensing fees!

Being a Global Good, openIMIS lives develops through the experiences and contributions from these various country implementations, and from the knowledge of subject-matter experts worldwide. This exchange of ideas on software, health financing workflows , and implementation experiences keep keeps the community of practice vibrant, functional and provide provides a purpose for the existence of such a tool. While new new implementations will profit from the existing tool and the planned developments, the new customizations required for the implementation will help make the software better (for both existing and future implementations by feeding back improvements)- for the existing implementations, as well as future ones.

If you are a developer working on developing a tool for health financing workflows - you can rest assured that you don't , you won’t have to re-invent the wheel. We would like to welcome you to join the developer's committee - and look at what we have done, use /or re-use it, build on top of openIMIS and share your expertise and experiences with the others.   The openIMIS developer's committee will not only let you benefit from this treasure trove for your own work ,  but will also allow for your own contributions to live on beyond your project scope.