Designing tools that work for health care workers

Daniel Burka, Director of Design for the digital team at Resolve to Save Lives, shares how any design team can create health care software that is easy to use, improves programs, and that health workers actually like.

Beating the world’s leading killer with Simple solutions

A montage of two health care workers recording blood pressure results on the Simple app, with the red blood drop logo for Simple in the background

In just a few short years, the Bangladesh Hypertension Control Initiative has achieved impressive blood pressure control rates, and our Simple app has played an important role in this progress.  Learn more about how data from Simple has helped our partners– the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s Non-Communicable Disease Control Program and the National […]

Tracking medications, the Simple way

Simple drug stock reports

The new update to the Simple app provides for better tracking of medications by allowing facilities to input the volume of each medication they have on-hand and their expiration dates on a monthly basis. This helps to reduce stock-outs and to increase the number of patients who have access to the medications they need, when […]

“Keep it Simple” is EDITORS’ CHOICE APRIL 2023 at BMJ HCI

user-centered information systems design for health care

Read our Simple team‘s paper on designing a user-centered digital information system to support chronic disease management in low- and middle-income countries, which was selected as Editor’s Choice for April 2023 by BMJ Health & Care Informatics.

Simple gets an open source brand

Our open source BP monitoring app, Simple, got a new brand thanks to the input of open source designers from all over the world. Read about it…

“Simple” app piloted in Punjab

The Resolve to Save Lives tech team ran our first real-world pilot of the Simple Android application, which aims to help healthcare workers to longitudinally track their hypertensive patients.