This page lists various articles of interest and stories of impact on Bahmni, as published on the internet. This should make it easier for community members to find case-studies that resonate with their own requirements and also see if some Bahmni implementations are close to them for a visit/experience sharing/etc. If you feel an article should be linked here, please drop a comment on this page, and we will incorporate it. Thanks!!
Also see various case-studies and presentations linked here: Presentations
Article | Link | Date | Location | Comments | |
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| 1 | A Visual Journey of How Bahmni is Used at JSS | https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-in/insights/blog/visual-journey-how-bahmni-used | July-2016 | Chattisgarh, India | Article with photos on how Bahmni is used at JSS, the first ever implementation of Bahmni. |
| 2 | Designing Bahmni software for people with low digital literacy | https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-au/insights/blog/designing-people-low-digital-literacy | 2016 | Chattisgarh, India | Designing for low resources and low digital literacy, and building Bahmni has been one of the most rewarding projects of my career. I’ve had the opportunity to observe the way users have taken to Bahmni and I was nothing short of amazed at the ease with which the product is being used. |
| 3 | Bahmni implementation in Nepal (by Possible Health) | 2016 | Bayalpata Hospital, Nepal | Bahmni positively influenced not only the day to day operations of the hospital, but also facilitated the hospital’s successful grant applications. Leveraging Bahmni, Bayalpata Hospital has treated 13,329 patients between November 2014 to January 2015 and during the quarter, the total income was $391,215. | |
| 4 | Bahmni deployment in Bangladesh as a Shared Health Record solution with DGHS | 2016 | Bangladesh | To take Bangladesh one step closer to universal health coverage for its citizens, the DGHS under the leadership of Professor Abdul Kalam Azad, Additional Director General (Administration) and Director (Management Information Systems), partnered with Thoughtworks. The goal was to create a Health Information Exchange (HIE). | |
| 5 | Bahmni deployed in Ashwini Tribal Hospital | https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-au/insights/blog/partnering-hospital-and-adivasis | 2016 | Gudalur, Tamilnadu, India | Unlike typical NGO-run hospitals, where control is with promoters or trustees of the NGO, the Ashwini Adivasi Hospital is managed and run by adivasis, making them completely self-reliant and sustainable. At many points of care within the hospital, due to Bahmni, they have gone paperless, making information flow seamlessly across the various departments. |
| 6 | Open-Source Electronic Health Record Systems for Low-Resource Settings: Systematic Review (National Library of Medicine, 2017) | Comparison of Bahmni EHR with other Opensource EHRs (External Report: 2017) | 2017 | - | A research paper comparing Bahmni with other leading opensource EMRs. |
| 7 | How Digitalization is strengthening Nepal's Health Sector (German Health Practice Collection) | https://www.giz.de/de/downloads/giz2018-en-digitalising-nepals-health-sector.pdf | Oct-2018 | Nepal | This case study documents Nepal’s journey towards the achievement of an interoperable digital health ecosystem. It aims to highlight how digitalisation is strengthening Nepal’s health system and enabling health sector reform, and to provide insights based on Germany’s support for digitalisation in Nepal that are relevant for health sector managers and decision-makers, as well as development partners supporting digital health in other low- and lower |
| 8 | Adoption of Bahmni in University of Gondar Specialised Hospital | Aug-2020 | Ethiopia | “The Ministry of Health is facilitating and supporting the implementation of EMR systems that meet the Ethiopian Electronic Health Record (EHR) standard. One of the EMR systems that are being deployed in various public health facilities in Ethiopia including in the University of Gondar Comprehensive and Specialized Hospital, is the Bahmni system. The system is a global open EMR tool that meets the Ethiopian EHR standard and provides end-to-end automation of health facility services.” | |
| 9 | Bahmni adoption across the Kindom of Lesotho | Bahmni, DHIS2 and HIE rollout in the Kingdom of Lesotho (External Report) | Sep-2020 | Lesotho | This report talks about the adoption and rollout of DHIS2, eRegister (built on Bahmni) and HIE across multiple facilities in the Kingdom of Lesotho. |
| 10 | Bahmni recognized as a Digital Public Good by DPGA Alliance | https://www.theweek.in/wire-updates/business/2021/04/14/pwr7-thoughtworks.html | Apr-2021 | - | "Bahmni is a welcome addition to the DPG Registry. Thanks to the focus on low-resourced areas with bandwidth and resource limitations, Bahmni has the potential to serve as the open-source reference EMR application globally, a prospect that moves the needle on achieving the sustainable development goals," added Lucy Harris, co-lead of the DPGA Secretariat. |
| 11 | Data Quality Assessment by PSH (Summary on LinkedIn with Photos) | 2023 | Bambanani New Start Centre, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe | “The Bahmni-EMR has contributed to high quality data within the Last Mile with improved health care worker efficiency and accuracy in reporting. Going paperless is a reality!!” | |
| 12 | Post on LinkedIn regarding Bahmni adoption in Charikot, Nepal (with photos) | June-2023 | Pashupati Chaulagain Memorial Hospital, Charikot, Nepal | “For the past eight years, this governmental hospital has been utilizing the open-source software Bahmni, resulting in a notable shift in patient care, record management, and operational effectiveness.” | |
| 13 | SNOMED CT Integration with Bahmni Open Source EMR | Oct-2023 | - | Blog write-up by SNOMED International on an initiative for integrating SNOMED Terminology server with Bahmni, and the reasons / benefits of doing so for adopters. | |
| 14 | Bahmni adopted by CURE Hospitals in Ethiopia | Nov-2023 | Ethiopia | The CURE International Bahmni Development project is an initiative where CURE International and Thoughtworks have built a partnership to develop and deploy the features on out-patient and in-patient journeys in CURE’s 7 paediatric hospitals across Africa | |
| 15 | Bahmni rollout in Health and Wellness Center / PHCs in Karnataka pilot | Jan-2024 | Karnataka, India | Bahmni integrated with ABDM, eSanjeevani, eAushadha and Avni (offline data entry) in 4 sub-centers in Karnataka as part of a pilot implementation. | |
| 16 | Bahmni adoption across Africa (map) | Jan-2024 | - | A map of Africa showing the various countries where Bahmni has been adopted. |