This space provides information on communities of practice around OpenHIE. All communities encourage openness and collaboration when it comes to sharing knowledge. In addition, this page serves as a resource for community descriptions, call information, community leads, and ongoing common work.
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Join us Quarterly at the OpenHIE Implementers NetworkThe OpenHIE Implementers Network (OHIN) is a forum dedicated to bringing together countries and implementers who are working in some of the most challenging environments on the planet to share questions, problems, and ideas so we can work on solutions together.  Meeting info: OpenHIE Implementers Network Call |
Communities of Practice
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Architecture & Standards Community The OpenHIE Architecture & Standards community was created for members of OpenHIE and its Communities to to discuss cross-cutting technical issues about how components work with one another and the affect they have on our health information exchange. Link to Architecture Specification. |
The Facility Registry Community (OHIE-FR) is made up of technologists and implementers supporting health facility registries and master facility lists. |
Health Management Information System Community The Health Management Information System Community (OHIE-HMIS) leads the development and deployment of technologies to better manage health information thus providing better patient care. |
Health Worker Registry Community The Health Worker Registry Community (OHIE-HWR) leads the development and deployment of provider registries, developed using technologies to support a comprehensive database of all providers of health care services in a certain population. |
Patient Identity Management Community The Patient Identity Management Community is focused on technology that provides accurate, reliable and stable identification and de-duplication of individuals and other entities in a variety of contexts. |
Interoperability Layer Community The Interoperability Layer Community (OHIE-IL) aims to enable easier interoperability between Health Information Systems by providing a forum for discussion and knowledge sharing and by designing and developing an interoperability layer that connects the components within the OHIE. |
Shared Health Record Community The Shared Health Record Community (OHIE-SHR) aims to enable the collection and storage of electronic health information about individual patients in a centralized repository which is capable of being shared across different healthcare settings. |
Clinical Metadata / Terminology Service Community The Terminology Service Community (OHIE-TS) serves as a central authority to uniquely identify the clinical activities that occur within the care delivery process by maintaining a terminology set mapped to international standards such as ICD10, LOINC, SNOMED, and others. |
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Health Financing towards UHC Community The Health Financing towards UHC Community (OHIE-UHC) is focused on identifying health care financing data exchange needs, and working synergistically with the OpenHIE community to ensure that data exchange processes and requirements meet the needs of the health care financing communities. |
PEPFAR Data Exchange Implementer Community The PEPFAR Data Exchange Implementer Community (PEPFAR-DEIC) serve for knowledge sharing between stakeholders involved in data import into DATIM, and to provide them with information on upcoming data exchange offerings. |
The Supply Chain Community (OHIE-SC) is a sub-team that engages with OpenHIE to leverage knowledge from real-world projects and lessons-learned from OpenHIE to explore the use/creation of standards and standard processes that might be used to support healthcare supply chain tasks. |
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As countries contemplate their implementation approaches to health data sharing, many are beginning to discern how to strengthen capacity in data exchange and other HIE related topics. This community is focused on working collectively to strengthen capacity to guild The Academy Community works together to create and/or share global goods that are focused on increasing the capacity to buildand support health information exchange architecture and processes.Community Leads: Jennifer E Shivers Tesfit Case Surveillance + Indicator Extraction The Case Surveillance and Indicator Extraction subcommunity works to: Identifying gaps in and establishing standards for data exchange priorities, provide documentation and guidance to improve adherence to these standard, and ensure that rapidly deployed solutions can be integrated into the national digital health architectures Community Leads: @Alicia Smith Jenny Thompson Jose Costa Teixeira Carl Leitner projects through:
Meeting info: Currently in drafting stagesMeeting Info: Case Surveillance & Indicator Extraction Subcommunity Calls | |
The DevOps subcommunity has discussions around strategy, leadership and coordination to; verify integration, communicate and demonstrate OpenHIE concepts, support implementer use of OpenHIE and conformance testing. | |
Privacy and Security Working Group Like all of our subcommunities this working group is open for all to join at any time. The group is in its early stages discussing scope and goals/outputs for the working group and what kind of products might be out there. Community Leads: Bob Jolliffe | Austin McGee @Michael Markevich Meeting Info: Privacy and Security Working Group Call |