BHIMA is a free, open source accounting and hospital information management system (HIMS) tailored for rural hospitals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We are an international team based all over the world.
BHIMA is an acronym for basic hospital information management application. It was originally developed by IMA World Health with funding from the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).
BHIMA provides a flexible and robust accounting and managerial solution for rural hospitals. This includes, but is not limited to, income/expense reporting, budgeting, patient and organisational billing, depreciation, inventory and pricing, and purchasing.
Additionally, BHIMA bundles reports and optional reporting plugins to aid hospital administrators, aid organisations, and governmental/non-governmental agencies access up to date utilization data. It targets insitutions that must conform to the OHADA reporting standards in western and central Africa.
Finally, the entire project is designed to scale from a single, low cost device in a clinic, to a large multi-hundred bed institution with tens of users accessing the server simultaneously.
The client is written in AngularJS and the server is NodeJS. Session management is enabled by Redis, and the backend is a MySQL database.
All contributions are welcome! If you want to get started hacking on BHIMA, the developer wiki contains notes on our designs and testing infrastructure. We also have a dedicated documentation website https://docs.bhi.ma. If you have any questions or need help getting started, please open an issue - chances are you are not the only one!
If you just want to jump into to messing with the software, check out Getting Up And Running.
If you are new to GitHub, they have an excellent guide.
See the installation guide.
BHIMA is licensed under GPL-2.0. Read the License.