![We measured how fast Simple is compared to paper systems.](../images/blog/digital-health/cover.png)
Digital Health publishes article about Simple in India
Simple was implemented by administering a user-centered approach and agile techniques. The authors explain how we did this.
![Daniel Burka](../images/people/daniel-burka.jpg)
Daniel Burka
17-Jul-2024, 4 minute read
![Guide: Fast & simple user testing for healthcare](../images/blog/user-testing-guide/user-testing-guide.jpg)
Guide: Fast & simple user testing for healthcare
A practical guide for user testing your software, so healthcare workers will love it. The guide is based on 6 years of experience user testing Simple, DHIS2, OpenSRP, and other digital health tools.
![Tony Joy](../images/people/tony-joy.jpg)
Tony Joy
18-Apr-2024, 2 minute read
![Hearts 360: A gold-standard dashboard for hypertension and diabetes programs](../images/blog/hearts360-dashboard/hearts360.jpg)
HEARTS360: A gold-standard dashboard for hypertension and diabetes programs
Highly effective dashboards designed for managing hypertension and diabetes programs at scale, based on WHO standard indicators.
![Jamie Carter](../images/people/jamie-carter.jpg)
Jamie Carter
11-Apr-2024, 3 minute read
![30 million blood pressure measures recorded in Simple](../images/blog/thirty-million-bp-measures/30-million-bp-measures.jpg)
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](../images/people/jamie-carter.jpg)
Jamie Carter
06-Mar-2024, 8 minute read
![A PDF playbook explaining what we have learned.](../images/blog/digital-playbook/cover@2x.jpg)
Digital playbook
Designing an optimal digital tool for hypertension and other long-term treatment programs — Lessons learned over the last 6 years.
![Daniel Burka](../images/people/daniel-burka.jpg)
Daniel Burka
22-Feb-2024, 3 minute read
![How do we reveal the data behind overdue patient calls in a meaningful way?](../images/blog/revealing-data-behind-overdue-patient-calls/cover.png)
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](../images/people/jamie-carter.jpg)
Jamie Carter
10-Jan-2024, 8 minute read
![We measured how fast Simple is compared to paper systems.](../images/blog/time-motion/cover.png)
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](../images/people/ashish.jpg)
Dr. Ashish Krishna
31-May-2023, 4 minute read
![Simple is now available in Spanish.](../images/blog/spanish-simple/cover.jpg)
Simple en español
Simple is now available in Spanish, thanks to open source contributions from the community.
![Daniel Burka](../images/people/daniel-burka.jpg)
Daniel Burka
14-Apr-2023, 3 minute read
![BMJ Health and Care Informatics article](../images/blog/bmj-2023/cover.jpg)
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](../images/people/daniel-burka.jpg)
Daniel Burka
27-Feb-2023, 5 minute read
![Generating powerful insights through contextual inquiry](../images/blog/2022-09-14-generating-powerful-insights-through-contextual-inquiry/cover.jpg)
Generating powerful insights through contextual inquiry
Sometimes, quiet observation surpasses extended interviews.
![Aarti Bhatnagar](../images/people/aarti.jpg)
Aarti Bhatnagar
14-Sep-2022, 10 minute read
![Join us for a discussion about open source software in public health](../images/blog/virtual-tech-talk/cover.png)
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](../images/people/misu.jpg)
Misu Tasnim
09-Aug-2022, 2 minute read
![Simple now has two million patients enrolled](../images/blog/two-million/cover.jpg)
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](../images/people/daniel-burka.jpg)
Daniel Burka
02-May-2022, 3 minute read
![Digital Public Goods Alliance](../images/blog/simple_digital_public_goods/cover.png)
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](../images/people/daniel-burka.jpg)
Daniel Burka
03-Jan-2022, 3 minute read
![Time is the most important factor in designing tools that work.](../images/blog/user-centered-design/cover.png)
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](../images/people/daniel-burka.jpg)
Daniel Burka
04-Oct-2021, 18 minute read
![Requirements of a hypertension management system](../images/blog/requirements-htn-system/cover.png)
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](../images/people/daniel-burka.jpg)
Daniel Burka
27-Sep-2021, 15 minute read
![1 million patients](../images/blog/one-million-patients/cover.png)
1 million patients
A million patients with hypertension and diabetes are being managed by clinicians using Simple in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and India.
![Aarti Bhatnagar](../images/people/aarti.jpg)
Aarti Bhatnagar
14-Sep-2021, 2 minute read
![Philomina, a staff nurse in India, holding her Android phone and explains Simple](../images/blog/testimonial-simple/cover.jpg)
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](../images/people/daniel-burka.jpg)
Daniel Burka
15-Oct-2020, 3 minute read
![Action shot of a patient named Harnanth Singh who offered to share his story](../images/blog/bp-passport-app/cover@2x.jpg)
BP Passport app for patients
The world's simplest personal hypertension charting app
![Mahima Chandak](../images/people/mahima.jpg)
Mahima Chandak
14-Jul-2020, 3 minute read
![Remote user testing illustration](../images/blog/remote-user-testing-during-lockdown/cover.png)
Remote user testing during lockdown
How we create better software for healthcare workers with remote user testing methods
![Pragati Mehrotra](../images/people/pragati.jpg)
Pragati Mehrotra
08-Jun-2020, 3 minute read
![An image gallery of people using Simple](../images/blog/simple-and-bangladesh/cover.jpg)
Simple + Bangladesh
Simple is now deployed in hospitals in northern Bangladesh
![Tanushree Jindal](../images/people/tanushree.jpg)
Tanushree Jindal
25-Feb-2020, 2 minute read
![Trophy for](../images/blog/simple-wins-best-in-show/cover.jpg)
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](../images/people/averma.jpg)
Akshay Verma
12-Feb-2020, 3 minute read
![A nurse using the offline-first Simple app in rural Punjab](../images/blog/offline-first-apps/cover.jpg)
Offline-first apps are appropriate for many clinical environments
How making Simple an offline-first app reduces patient wait time
![Govind Joshi](../images/people/govind.jpg)
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](../images/blog/co-creation-with-nurses/cover.jpg)
Co-creation with nurses
How we make better software for our users by creating solutions together
![Pragati Mehrotra](../images/people/pragati.jpg)
Pragati Mehrotra
17-Dec-2019, 6 minute read
![On the phone with a healthcare worker](../images/blog/phone-interviews-with-users/cover.png)
How regular phone interviews with users gets us excellent insights
Regularly scheduled phone calls helps us identify patterns of concern
![Tanushree Jindal](../images/people/tanushree.jpg)
Tanushree Jindal
20-Nov-2019, 7 minute read
![Action shot of a patient named Harnanth Singh who offered to share his story](../images/blog/a-day-in-the-life/cover.jpg)
A day in the life
How a nurse uses Simple to help save patients with hypertension
![Akshay Verma](../images/people/averma.jpg)
Akshay Verma
10-Oct-2019, 4 minute read
![Training video for Simple](../images/blog/training-the-simple-way/cover.jpg)
Training, the Simple way
The tools and methods the Simple team uses to train clinicians
![Deepa Venkatraman](../images/people/deepa.jpg)
Deepa Venkatraman
04-Oct-2019, 4 minute read
![A doctor using Simple in a primary health center in Maharashtra, India in 2019](../images/blog/what-we-are-learning/cover.jpg)
What we are learning by creating an ultra-thin EMR
How clinicians use Simple to manage 125,000 patients with hypertension
![Daniel Burka](../images/people/daniel-burka.jpg)
Daniel Burka
18-Sep-2019, 11 minute read
![5 articles to convince leaders that design and usability matters](../images/blog/5-articles-to-convince-leaders/cover.jpg)
5 articles to convince leaders that design and usability matters
A curated list of articles suggested by the larger design community
![Daniel Burka](../images/people/daniel-burka.jpg)
Daniel Burka
03-Sep-2019, 3 minute read
![Comic-style illustration depicting the different parts of the user's experience](../images/blog/how-storyboarding-from-real-data/cover.jpg)
How storyboarding from real user data drives good product decisions
The process and value of storyboarding our user's experience
![Mahima Chandak](../images/people/mahima.jpg)
Mahima Chandak
22-Aug-2019, 7 minute read
![The simulated clinic in action at the Obvious studio in Bangalore](../images/blog/how-a-simulated-clinic/cover.jpg)
How a simulated clinic helps us make better software
Simulating clinics to understand our users and their work context
![Tanushree Jindal](../images/people/tanushree.jpg)
Tanushree Jindal
06-Aug-2019, 8 minute read
![Open source brand for Simple](../images/blog/open-source-brand-for-simple/cover.jpg)
Open source brand for Simple
The process and ideas that shaped Simple's open-source indentity
![Daniel Burka](../images/people/daniel-burka.jpg)