Jembi Health Systems

Jembi Health Systems

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

HealthInternational developmentTax-deductible donations
NGOInternational reach
Profile last updated: August 20, 2026

About

Jembi Health Systems is a non-governmental organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa working on health, international development.

Jembi Health Systems is an African non-profit organisation that designs, builds, implements and supports open-source digital health information systems for low-resource settings. It partners with international aid organisations and governments, with a focus on low-income countries, and provides enterprise software, facility hardware, training and support. Jembi was spun out of the South African Medical Research Council and registered as a non-profit company in 2009. It has offices in Cape Town, Durban and Maputo and has worked in Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.

Location

Cape Town, South Africa

Organisation type

NGO

Focus areas

digital healthhealth information systemsopen sourceinteroperabilityglobal health

Languages

EN

Causes & programmes

Causes

HealthInternational development

Works for

Patients

How they work

Capacity building

Programmes

OpenHIM

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Health · Indonesia

Open-source middleware that connects health information systems, secures communications and routes data between systems, including integration with Indonesia's national SatuSehat platform.

JeMPI

Health

Patient matching tool that creates a master patient index, used to deduplicate patient records across facilities.

Country Health Information Systems and Data Use Project

Health

Project supporting national health information systems and the use of health data.

Countries of operation

South AfricaMozambiqueRwandaZimbabweIndonesiaSri Lanka

Funding & support

Trust

Tax-deductible donations

Credentials & affiliations

Partnerships

Rockefeller Foundation, International Development Research Centre

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