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Efficiently managing beneficiary, provider and payer data Many countries are working to extend social health protection as part of the drive to achieve Universal Health Coverage (SDG 3). As health financing schemes are expanded to include people working in the informal sector and other hitherto excluded groups, there is an acute need for digital solutions to efficiently manage the growing information flows.
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Paper-based systems make the exchange of data between patients, health service providers and scheme operators slow, inefficient, and susceptible to errors and fraud. Ultimately, this can lead to health insurance schemes becoming financially unviable. Digitalisation results in more efficient data management, helps to streamline business processes and provides the information needed to monitor a scheme’s performance. |
Many scheme operators continue to invest significant time and resources in the establishment of digital information systems designed to meet their specific needs.
Stand-alone digital solutions introduce problems of their own, however: expensive licensing fees, the risk of vendor ‘lock-in’, and an inability to exchange data with other information systems. Data ‘siloes’ are a significant obstacle to the seamless exchange of information that is needed to make health insurance schemes work at scale and to make progress towards Sustainable Development Goal targets.
openIMIS: A versatile open source solution for health insurance schemes
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openIMIS was originally developed to facilitate the administration of social health insurance schemes for people in the informal sector in low and lower-middle income countries. It has subsequently been modified for use in administering health insurance schemes focused on the formal sector as well. openIMIS supports the following core insurance processes:
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