Abhigna Nimmagadda
Abhigna is a junior at the University of Washington Bothell pursuing Computer Science and Data Science. She is passionate about developing software for real-world impact, and is currently researching cybersecurity risks that generative AI poses to open source software with Dr. Kaylea Champion. Her interests span IP law, generative AI, and user-centered applications. She enjoys teaching coding and exploring the broader implications of AI on technology - from its impact on CVE databases to how it can support developers without compromising software quality and integrity.
Session
OpenHospital is a free and open-source health information management system used in hospitals across Uganda, Ethiopia, and other resource-limited regions. Built by Informatici Senza Frontiere, it manages patient records, laboratory results, pharmacy stock, and statistical reporting for healthcare workers and patients who depend on it daily.
As a team of four undergraduate students contributing to OpenHospital for the first time, we each tackled separate “good first issues” across reporting infrastructure, interface consistency, localization cleanup, and GUI data accessibility. This talk shares what we worked on and what we learned contributing to production healthcare software as first-time open source contributors.