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Jamie Thomas (Regenstrief)
Lorinne Banister (Regenstrief)
Mike Gehron (OGAC)
Shaun Grannis (Regenstrief)
Jorge Queipo (PEPFAR)
Mark DeZalia (OGAC)
David Poreda (PwC)
Manish Kumar (MEASURE Evaluation/UNC)
Angad Dhindsa (MEASURE Evaluation/ICF)
Lon Gowen (USAID/M/CIO)
Dana Juthe (PwC)
Jennifer Shivers (Regenstrief)
Rodney Fleetwood (CDC)
Josephine Mungurere-Baker (BAO)
Martin Namutso (BAO)
Paul Biondich (Regenstrief)
Jason Knueppel (CDC/Moz)
Burke Mamlin (Regenstrief)
Denise Johnson (MEASURE Evaluation)
Vlad Shioshvili (MEASURE Evaluation)
Terry Cullen (Regenstrief)
Jim Grace (HISP)
Stacey Berlow (MEASURE Evaluation)
Michael Mwebaze (MEASURE Evaluation/JSI)
James Kariuki (CDC)
Carl Leitner (IntraHealth)
Audrey Knutson (Peace Corps)
Annah Ngaruro (ICF)
Mary Kratz (DoD)
Vilma Thomas (CDC)
Agnaldo Guambe (CDC/Moz)
Donna Medeiros
Jason Pickering (DATIM Dev Team/Univ. Of Oslo)
Agenda:
  • Expanded community calls
  • Data Import Guidance
Minutes:
Expanded Community Calls (Denise)
  • Standing community call on the 1st Wednesday of the month (this is the umbrella data exchange call)
  • more specifically targeted community calls; held a data import, Nov 18 SIMS data exchange - look for an invite and more details in the coming week
  • Looking to establish a call schedule for every wednesday - with the umbrealla call (this one) on the first wednesday
  • Calls will be announced on other calls and on the mailing list, 1-2 weeks out
  • Next calls: Nov 18 SIMS, Dec 2 Umbrella
Data Exchange: Overview and Data Flow (Denise, Annah)
  • link to slides above^^
  • Technology stack/Engineering Viewpoint (Denise)
  • Two components added specifcially for DATIM were an indicator registry and a mechanism registry
  • Annah - HMIS could be DATIM or DHIS2 in this case
  • Jim - Can you clarify what you mean by DHIS2 or DATIM? Clarity on defenitions.
  • Paul - What is being presented is a conceptual vision - moving forward we need to break down all of these services - this is still in progress
  • Mark - Right now facility registry is embedded in DHIS2. Long term would want to host in another way. Right now it is the same as the organizational hierarchy in DHIS2
  • Apelon - Mary Kratz brought up that SIMS also has a need for a terminology service - question on whether that liscense will be availible. Paul articulated that they are moving towards use for everyone in an open manner. 
  • For the current iteration the automated indicators received by DATIM is our main focus.
  • Data Exchange Data Flows (Denise)
  • Top box is akin to the previous diagram
  • Standards based interfaces are being built out right now
  • Seeing this as an enviroment where there are health information exchanges between multiple partners
  • In the MOH Distro the HMIS will be a standard DHIS2
  • Idea of the distro is to allow interested data exchange partners to hit the ground running - takes out the need for heavy lifting
  • Lon - More detail on IOL and its architecture? What services will be exposed?
  • For aggregate data using a standard called ADX - will look to releasing a sample for MER and SIMS soon
  • Jennifer - at the high level using CSD transaction to transmit metadata, working to make documents more availible to the public
  • Mike - mechanisms and indicators are available 
  • Shaun - FIPS 140-2, if there are specific requirements for this standard in this community they can be addressed
  • Security requirements 
  • Need to make sure we have 508 compliance - accessibility 
  • NIST 800-53 
  • Mary Kratz: All US government applications are required to have security ATO (Authorization to Operate) from the CIO
  • Data Import Guidance
  • Deadline for data submission is Nov 6 - this is a hard deadline
  • Mark - What should countries be doing to meet that deadline? 
  • Manish: Follow the guidelines. Use validation script - which is in R to insure that all data being imported is valid.
  • Deduplication needs to be done after data is imported and can be a lengthy process - countries have until Nov 13 to have this process completed.
Denise - would encourage people to share topics that they would like to see on calls on the mailing list or right here 
Do you have suggested topics for these calls? Add them to the comments section below.

 

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