FAQ - When was openIMIS created?
In 2012, with support from the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC), the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Microinsurance Academy and Exact Software developed an Insurance Management Information System (IMIS) to operate community health funds in several districts of Tanzania.
In 2014, a mutual health insurance scheme in Cameroon adapted the software for its business processes. Since 2015, German Development Cooperation (GDC) has been providing assistance to customize IMIS for Nepal’s national health insurance scheme. The software has grown organically and has demonstrated potential for easy adaptation to different types of health financing mechanisms needed for universal health coverage.
In light of IMIS' success, SDC decided to license it as open source software under the AGPL3 license. In 2016 it joined with the German Development Cooperation to launch the openIMIS initiative. The openIMIS source code has been publicly available since 2018.
