Fast, free software for clinicians to manage patients with hypertension & diabetes.
Simple is designed to support large-scale hypertension and diabetes management programs. The app has been used in India, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar to manage almost 7 million patients with hypertension and diabetes.
Healthcare workers record every patient's visit in an app, managers receive daily reports to monitor progress, and patients can chart their own BPs and blood sugars.
Read more about Simple in our Implementer Report published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in 2023. In 2024, Simple recognized with a 'Gold Award' at the 27th National Conference on e-Governance in India. In 2022, Simple was recognized as Digital Public Good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance.
Simple has three parts
Simple app
An easy-to-use mobile app for healthcare workers to record BPs, blood sugars, and medicines at every patient visit in about 13 seconds.
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Simple dashboard
A web-based dashboard for officials and health system managers to monitor hypertension control across facilities and regions.
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BP Passport app
An app for patients and caregivers to record BPs and blood sugars that has daily medication reminders. iOS and Android.
Learn more about BP Passport app →Features
- Personalized SMS/WhatsApp reminders automatically sent to patients, reminding them to return for visits.
- Simple telemedicine for healthcare workers to contact medical officers from community clinics.
- Overdue patients lists make it easy to follow-up with patients that are lost to care.
- Secure calling allows healthcare workers to call overdue patients without revealing their phone number.
- Patient line lists can be easily downloaded for reporting or to share.
- Offline-first design means Android app can be used in hospitals with limited internet access.
- Patient ID cards with unique QR codes make it super easy to find patients.
- Progress reports show healthcare workers what they have achieved in near real-time.
- Reports updated monthly so managers can track progress regularly and make improvements.
- Translated into 16 local languages for healthcare workers.
- Risk analysis helps healthcare workers to prioritize calling “high risk†patients first.
Is Simple really free?
This project is supported by Resolve to Save Lives, which enables us to provide Simple completely free of cost with no strings attached. This project will always be open source — free and open to contributions from everyone.
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A short documentary showing how Simple is used as part of IHCI, the India Hypertension Control Initiative.