The openIMIS Initiative welcomes implementers with expertise in designing and deploying digital health and social protection systems in a variety of settings. Your expertise and knowledge help users and scheme operators get started and maintain openIMIS to manage their health financing and social protection schemes. Join the community to meet other implementers, learn from their experiences and work on common goals. Learn about best practices and access expertise, technologies and knowledge on global standards.
Why join?
The openIMIS community of practice gives you unrestricted access to expert knowledge on openIMIS, including learning from existing implementations and upcoming releases. In addition, you get access to ready-to-use documents, templates and tools that will simplify your implementation of openIMIS. With access to these resources and the openIMIS tool itself, you can develop effective and efficient proposals for managing health financing and social protection schemes.
By becoming part of the openIMIS community, you join a broad group of partners who help support the expansion of openIMIS globally. In addition to gaining knowledge on openIMIS, the community makes it easy to share your implementation knowledge with a variety of stakeholders around the world.
What does it cost?
The openIMIS software, including the source code, is free. It can be freely downloaded without restrictions. Joining the openIMIS community is also free.
When implementing openIMIS, you will incur costs for deploying the software (eg. server costs), and for required hardware at health facilities and the scheme operator. In addition, there will be costs for implementation and roll-out of the software(e.g. user training) and regular maintenance of the installation.
The cost of implementing openIMIS varies greatly depending on the scope of implementation, which determines the degree of customisation and the scale of implementation. An initial study focused on identifying these factors, particularly customisation needs and scale of implementation, is highly recommended before deployment.
How do I get started?
As a first step, please read the overview of the openIMIS tool and community of practice presented here. You can also try out a demo of the latest openIMIS release here, using the documentation provided on our wiki.
If you have any questions regarding the demo or openIMIS in general, or if you want to start exchanging ideas with other experts in the field, please join the openIMIS Implementers Committee.
The Implementers Committee is a central component of the openIMIS Product Group. Its key responsibilities are to discuss, showcase and implement openIMIS, to build country capacities and to set up local, regional and global support structures for the openIMIS Initiative.