OpenFn is a workflow automation tool. It is used by governments and NGOs in more than 40 countries to securely automate business processes, exchange critical information, and achieve interoperability. Integration strengthens existing health systems and automation decreases the costs (in time and money) and error-rate (by eliminating human error) of complex, multi-step processes, allowing organizations to focus more of their resources on the critical, human aspects of their work.
Since its inception in 2014, OpenFn has been designed to comply with open standards, can connect with any application, and provides more than 60 out-of-box adaptors to simplify integration with other global goods like DHIS2, CommCare, ODK, OpenMRS, RapidPro and many more.
Health and IT professionals responsible for designing, managing, and delivering technology implementations that facilitate health interventions.
Various sectors including Health, Agriculture, Conservation in LMICs
Software: English; Documentation: English, French
Software
GPL-3.0-only
Data interchange interoperability and accessibility
K | Facility management information system
H | Electronic medical record
M | Health finance and insurance information system
N | Health management information system (HMIS),
R | Laboratory and diagnostics information system
X | Shared Health Record and health information repositories
As of April 2023, OpenFn automates 8 million workflow runs per year, processing approximately 40 million records across more than 40 countries. OpenFN is used by 44+ organizations, including government ministries in Thailand, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, Ghana, Dominica, UNICEF, and dozens of iNGOs
While our end-beneficiaries are the people who get more efficient and effective healthcare thanks to automation on the platform, OpenFn’s users are health and IT professionals responsible for designing, managing, and delivering technology implementations that facilitate these health interventions. The technologies may include health information systems, disease surveillance systems, mobile data collection apps, SMS and messaging platforms, payment gateways, analytics tools, and many more tools common in digital health ecosystems.
OpenFn users report that automation saves time and money and provides other benefits, including improved data security and quality, reduced errors, enhanced service delivery, and other project-specific outcomes.
Number of known implementations: 11
As a workflow automation tool typically used for data transformation and exchange, standards are not built-in to app features, but rather the app provides features that enable implementers to automatically apply such health standards to data to be integrated. For example, an implementer may use OpenFn to extract data from a source health system and map the data to a health standard before loading to another standards-compliant destination system
HL7 v2, v3
HL7 FHIR
ADX
As a workflow automation tool, OpenFn can be configured to adhere to IHE workflows. Out-of-box, OpenFn can support most of these workflows, assuming the target systems have an available REST API, database connection, or a mechanism for making CSV/JSON/XML file exports available. For some use cases, such as those that involve image transfer, custom development may be required in order to leverage OpenFn.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTRRZBYtqyc&list=PL1pD3-abjHJ2fNDk0g3A0jrowIVwTZyhR&index=14
Roadmaphttps://docs.openfn.org/documentation/about-lightning/#roadmap
Developer and technical docshttps://docs.openfn.org/ https://docs.openfn.org/documentation/getting-started/integration-toolkit/#architecture-for-implementation
https://docs.openfn.org/documentation/devtools/home
Jobs (the central building block for configuring workflows)https://docs.openfn.org/documentation/build/jobs
Guidance for Business Analysts and more functional-focused users on how to prepare and design for OpenFn implementationshttps://docs.openfn.org/documentation/design/design-quickstart
The OpenFn open-source integration toolkit is governed by Open Function Group (OFG), LLC under the supervision of its Open Source Steering Committee (OSSC).
Open Function Group has been the primary funder, using its SaaS revenue from its proprietary platform SaaS. More recently, advancement of the OpenFn software has been funded by grants, through funders including the WFP, Digital Square, the UK FCDO, and DIAL
Total Cost of Ownership/ Implementation Cost model available: Yes
