AeHIN openIMIS CoP in Asia (2026 Webinars and Events)

openIMIS Webinar: Sandboxing openIMIS for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Learning in Indonesia

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On January 28, 2026, the Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN) hosted the webinar titled "Sandboxing openIMIS for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Learning in Indonesia" with Dr. Guadian Sanjaya, Dr. Lukman Heryawan, and Ms. Annisa Ristya Rahmanti, PhD from the Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. Thirty participants attended the webinar.

The webinar presented the use of openIMIS in a sandbox environment to support technical learning on UHC in Indonesia, including observations from Indonesia’s National Health Insurance (Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN), the adaptation of openIMIS into the proposed OpenJKN system,  and potential use cases for health insurance learning, simulation, and future action planning.

At the beginning of the webinar, Mr. Anis Fuad emphasized the importance of creating a learning environment to achieve UHC. He mentioned that, aside from Indonesia, which is already implementing UHC, many countries are visiting the country to learn from its national health insurance ecosystem. Given the complexities of this ecosystem, they recognize it is difficult for their students to learn in the field; students’ willingness to learn must be supported by an enabling environment. Mr. Fuad shared that they want to use openIMIS as a model to help students visualize how the Indonesian health insurance system works in practice, but clarified that including openIMIS in the model requires on-the-ground learning.

OpenJKN: Functions and Roles in Supporting UHC Learning

Dr. Sanjaya provided an overview of  OpenJKN, a proposed sandbox platform based on openIMIS that enables users to explore JKN’s digital tools (P-Care, Mobile JKN, etc.) and simulate various health insurance scenarios in Indonesia.  OpenJKN is informed by a comparative analysis conducted by UGM comparing JKN business processes with openIMIS. 

Dr. Sanjaya presented stakeholder interactions and business processes in social health insurance, noting that transactions should align with indicators of the healthcare process, outputs, and outcomes that link to the success of UHC. He also discussed the evolving digital health transformation in Indonesia, which will impact the development and adoption of digital health. Health insurance is a major stakeholder in digital health ecosystems. Policies on interoperability standards and the adoption of specific use cases for health program services should be elaborated for healthcare services that will shape how digital health is used in the health facility and how health insurance can comply with standards.

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In their study, the team found that not all of Indonesia’s business processes are supported in openIMIS. They suggest introducing OpenJKN as an additional module or plugin in openIMIS to facilitate a similar social health insurance business process in Indonesia, leverage FHIR to facilitate interoperability, and enable participants to access data through personal health records.

From openIMIS to OpenJKN: System Adaptation for Indonesia’s Health Insurance Context

Following Dr. Sanjaya’s discussion, Dr. Heryawan mentioned the adaptation issues they encountered. Internally, they had challenges with language and currency translation, the administrative menu not appearing, and data incompatibility. Externally, they acknowledge that Indonesia’s JKN system is highly complex.

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The team proposes using openIMIS to support teaching the JKN ecosystem by simulating its various information systems. Dr. Heryawan shared a case study related to enrollment modules to show how they will introduce the OpenJKN to openIMIS for educational purposes: 1) integrate multisystems’ workflows into OpenJKN, and 2) synchronize data between openIMIS and OpenJKN. He also showed their OpenJKN-openIMIS architecture, illustrating how their systems will communicate through FHIR.

In addition, Dr. Heryawan presented the user interface (UI) design for the OpenJKN enrollment module they are developing.

Using OpenJKN  as a Learning Sandbox: Health Insurance Scenarios for UHC

Ms. Rahmanti presented on how Indonesia can use OpenJKN, built on openIMIS, as both a system demonstration tool and a learning sandbox to help students understand how Indonesian health insurance works in practice.

She noted that, when they introduced openIMIS in their openIMIS e-Learning course for master's students at the University of Gadjah Mada, the learning was feature-driven rather than decision-driven, and only 50% of students felt motivated to further explore openIMIS after the course. To address this gap, they plan to embed OpenJKN scenarios to help students connect health financing logic to UHC, making OpenJKN a suitable shared national learning infrastructure.

Regarding the openIMIS services flow, Ms. Rahmanti mentioned that they would like to simplify it in OpenJKN by focusing on enrollments. She further presented scenarios on JKN enrollment and segmentation; service access, benefits, and facility rules; and membership updates and interoperability. To evaluate the impact of the OpenJKN Sandbox Learning, the team will use Kirkpatrick’s evaluation model, covering reaction, learning, behavior, and results. In the first phase of the sandbox, the team will focus on level 1 (reaction), assessing the usability and perceived usefulness of the system, and on level 2 (learning), evaluating how accurate and conceptual their students' understanding is. To help the learners progress, the team will align the OpenJKN learning activities with Bloom’s Taxonomy.

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At the end of her presentation, Ms. Rahmanti shared the OpenJN Sandbox Roadmap, composed of three phases: course-level integration, inter-university adoption, and the health information systems module, and invited participants to get involved in the next phase of the OpenJKN sandbox learning using openIMIS.

openIMIS webinar: AI Hub for Social Protection - What it does and how to access it

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The Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN) conducted the webinar, "AI Hub for Social Protection - What it does and how to access it," presented by Franziska Clausius and Honga Ross from GIZ on February 4, 2026, which was attended by 27 participants.