Health Insurance Solution - Implementation Starter Kit
Welcome to the Implementation Starter Kit page, which provides useful information, training resources, and tools to get you started with installing and deploying openIMIS to manage your health insurance scheme needs. We have compiled these resources with the aim of providing an overview of the requirements of the system and walk you through learning tools we have at hand as your organization takes the openIMIS path to digitalizing your business processes.
Scheme Analysis
Demo Server
Rolling Out openIMIS
We have provided in the Implementation Steps the details in rolling out openIMIS.
The implementation steps indicated are part of an ideal approach that we would suggest. Some steps can be undertaken in parallel but ideally the stages of Assessment & Planning, Adaptation, Pilot, and Scale-up should be undertaken in the given sequence.
The steps outlined in the Implementation Steps page go beyond just the customization and implementation of the openIMIS software. They also concern other factors which have impacted the implementation time frame in the past. These factors include but are not limited to:
The scale of the roll out (communities, villages, regions, or nationwide)
The number of actors involved in the implementation
The establishment of appropriate policies and insurance entity
Political reasons
Procurement matters
Hence it is difficult to suggest the ideal time frame for rolling out the software.
Key Resources
Assessing Readiness to openIMIS
To utilize openIMIS optimally, it is best to start by outlining and describing your organisation’s processes, particularly, how information is or shall be processed. The software’s functionality can be customised and user roles defined based on your organisation’s procedures and offered services and in accordance to your policies on how to manage claims. We suggest that you use the Scheme Analysis template in reflecting on your business processes and the appropriateness and relevance of openIMIS to your system.
It will come as no surprise that implementing and operating openIMIS will require the allocation of adequate resources. The resources necessary to optimally run openIMIS are listed in Resource requirements, and for your convenient use we have also developed a Costing Tool, which you can use to estimate how these resources translate in monetary terms.
Once your organisation makes the decision and commitment to adopt openIMIS for your business process, it helps to know what you will need to work on in installing and deploying the platform. The Rapid Appraisal toolkit will help you determine your readiness to openIMIS and the gaps you will still need to address prior to embarking on the system change.