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The OpenHIE Facility Registry Community (OHIE-FR) Community supports the development and implementation of technologies to create health facility registries. This tool is designed to serve  A facility registry is based upon country requirements for facility data and then serves as the central authority to uniquely identify locations where health services are administered within are administered within a country. The OHIE-FR community undertakes three includes two main areas of ongoing activity, including:  

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-FR Community Meetings

OHIE-FR Technical Meeting: Organizes and supports a group technically focused group of e-Health experts to work on issues regarding open APIs, HIE architecture, and standards.  Results from this group include  These meetings have been key in the creation of the open source FRED-API, which is intended to facilitate integrations between a facility registry and other eHealth systems. This group is open to all and meets twice a month. Details to connect, minutes, and recordings can be found here: OHIE-FR Meetings

OHIE-FR Implementers Meeting: We are also actively organizing facility registry implementers to discuss issues, best practices, and strategies related to for the creation and use of a facility registry.  Details on topics and upcoming meetings will be announced shortly.    in the near future.    

Implementation Support 

The OHIE Facility registry community also supports a growing number of implementations of national facility registries. (E.g., Tanzania and Rwanda).  To support future countries we also are drafting a Prescriptive Implementation Guide to detail a requirements based approach of implementing a facility registry.  Details regarding ongoing projects can be found here: Implementation Projects

Get Started!   

To get started, learn more and , or ask your questions: 

1. Join the OHIE-FR Google Group Mailing List
2. Contact Scott Teesdale to get connected to resources, people, and meetings