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 is actively used in 5,286 public health facilities in India, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Sri Lanka to manage 4,637,649 patients with hypertension and diabetes — updated 6-Mar-2024.

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 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.

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Features

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.

Truly free to use

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A short documentary showing how Simple is used as part of IHCI, the India Hypertension Control Initiative.