30 million blood pressure measures recorded in Simple

The power of 30 million blood pressure measures

To celebrate 30 million blood pressures in Simple let's explore the power of a humble blood pressure measure.

Jamie Carter

Jamie Carter

06-Mar-2024, 8 minute read
A PDF playbook explaining what we have learned.

Digital playbook

Designing an optimal digital tool for hypertension and other long-term treatment programs — Lessons learned over the last 6 years.

Daniel Burka

Daniel Burka

22-Feb-2024, 3 minute read
How do we reveal the data behind overdue patient calls in a meaningful way?

Calling overdue patients helps improve return-to-care rates.

How do we reveal the data behind overdue patient calls in a meaningful way?

Jamie Carter

Jamie Carter

10-Jan-2024, 8 minute read
We measured how fast Simple is compared to paper systems.

The impact of the Simple app on nurse efficiency

In a time-and-motion study conducted in India, Simple was shown to streamline hypertension care.

Dr. Ashish Krishna

Dr. Ashish Krishna

31-May-2023, 4 minute read
Simple is now available in Spanish.

Simple en español

Simple is now available in Spanish, thanks to open source contributions from the community.

Daniel Burka

Daniel Burka

14-Apr-2023, 3 minute read
BMJ Health and Care Informatics article

BMJ implementer report about Simple

We published an implementer report in BMJ outlining the key factors to succeed with a digital system for monitoring a large-scale hypertension program.

Daniel Burka

Daniel Burka

27-Feb-2023, 5 minute read
Generating powerful insights through contextual inquiry

Generating powerful insights through contextual inquiry

Sometimes, quiet observation surpasses extended interviews.

Aarti Bhatnagar

Aarti Bhatnagar

14-Sep-2022, 10 minute read
Join us for a discussion about open source software in public health

Discuss: Tech can do many things — good and bad.

Join us to hear about how the Simple engineering team believes in and strives for technology for social good.

Misu Tasnim

Misu Tasnim

09-Aug-2022, 2 minute read
Simple now has two million patients enrolled

2 million patients

Simple just crossed a huge milestone: healthcare workers have now registered more than two million patients with hypertension and diabetes.

Daniel Burka

Daniel Burka

02-May-2022, 3 minute read
Digital Public Goods Alliance

Simple is now a Digital Public Good

Today we are thrilled that Simple is counted as a 'Digital Public Good' alongside many other incredible open source projects working to achieve the United Nation's sustainable development goals.

Daniel Burka

Daniel Burka

03-Jan-2022, 3 minute read
Time is the most important factor in designing tools that work.

Clinical software must respect clinicians' precious time

A user-centered approach to designing digital tools for global public health quickly surfaces that “time” is the most underappreciated factor.

Daniel Burka

Daniel Burka

04-Oct-2021, 18 minute read
Requirements of a hypertension management system

Requirements for a digital information system for hypertension control

Healthcare workers are too busy to enter detailed data—but a hypertension control program needs just a few key pieces of data to improve patient care. Keep it simple.

Daniel Burka

Daniel Burka

27-Sep-2021, 15 minute read
1 million patients

1 million patients

A million patients with hypertension and diabetes are being managed by clinicians using Simple in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and India.

Aarti Bhatnagar

Aarti Bhatnagar

14-Sep-2021, 2 minute read
Philomina, a staff nurse in India, holding her Android phone and explains Simple

Philomina, a staff nurse in India, explains how she uses Simple

We received this wonderful testimonial, recorded by a staff nurse in Maharashtra.

Daniel Burka

Daniel Burka

15-Oct-2020, 3 minute read
Action shot of a patient named Harnanth Singh who offered to share his story

BP Passport app for patients

The world's simplest personal hypertension charting app

Mahima Chandak

Mahima Chandak

14-Jul-2020, 3 minute read
Remote user testing illustration

Remote user testing during lockdown

How we create better software for healthcare workers with remote user testing methods

Pragati Mehrotra

Pragati Mehrotra

08-Jun-2020, 3 minute read
An image gallery of people using Simple

Simple + Bangladesh

Simple is now deployed in hospitals in northern Bangladesh

Tanushree Jindal

Tanushree Jindal

25-Feb-2020, 2 minute read
Trophy for

Simple Wins "Best in Show" at the IxDA Awards in Milan

Simple was recognized with the top prize at the Interaction 20 Conference

Akshay Verma

Akshay Verma

12-Feb-2020, 3 minute read
A nurse using the offline-first Simple app in rural Punjab

Offline-first apps are appropriate for many clinical environments

How making Simple an offline-first app reduces patient wait time

Govind Joshi

Govind Joshi

02-Jan-2020, 6 minute read
A nurse and a Community Health Officer sharing their ideas for Simple at a Health and Wellness Centre in Bathinda, Punjab

Co-creation with nurses

How we make better software for our users by creating solutions together

Pragati Mehrotra

Pragati Mehrotra

17-Dec-2019, 6 minute read
On the phone with a healthcare worker

How regular phone interviews with users gets us excellent insights

Regularly scheduled phone calls helps us identify patterns of concern

Tanushree Jindal

Tanushree Jindal

20-Nov-2019, 7 minute read
Action shot of a patient named Harnanth Singh who offered to share his story

A day in the life

How a nurse uses Simple to help save patients with hypertension

Akshay Verma

Akshay Verma

10-Oct-2019, 4 minute read
Training video for Simple

Training, the Simple way

The tools and methods the Simple team uses to train clinicians

Deepa Venkatraman

Deepa Venkatraman

04-Oct-2019, 4 minute read
A doctor using Simple in a primary health center in Maharashtra, India in 2019

What we are learning by creating an ultra-thin EMR

How clinicians use Simple to manage 125,000 patients with hypertension

Daniel Burka

Daniel Burka

18-Sep-2019, 11 minute read
5 articles to convince leaders that design and usability matters

5 articles to convince leaders that design and usability matters

A curated list of articles suggested by the larger design community

Daniel Burka

Daniel Burka

03-Sep-2019, 3 minute read
Comic-style illustration depicting the different parts of the user's experience

How storyboarding from real user data drives good product decisions

The process and value of storyboarding our user's experience

Mahima Chandak

Mahima Chandak

22-Aug-2019, 7 minute read
The simulated clinic in action at the Obvious studio in Bangalore

How a simulated clinic helps us make better software

Simulating clinics to understand our users and their work context

Tanushree Jindal

Tanushree Jindal

06-Aug-2019, 8 minute read
Open source brand for Simple

Open source brand for Simple

The process and ideas that shaped Simple's open-source indentity

Daniel Burka

Daniel Burka

25-Oct-2018, 4 minute read