About the Event
The OpenHIE Community Network meeting is designed to support developers, implementers, and Government officials in fostering the advancement of OpenHIE and the support of country owned and driven, large-scale health information sharing architectures. It will serve to showcase the strategy, approach and components that pragmatically empower sustainable and standards-based sharing of health information to improve health outcomes. The meeting will also highlight existing OpenHIE implementations and provide a platform for community learning and discussion about OpenHIE in action.
The OpenHIE Community Meeting will take place July 31 - August 4, 2018, in Arusha, Tanzania. The meeting will included 3 days of sessions (July 31 - August 2) and 2 days for a Connect-a-thon (August 3-4).
Objectives
Connect implementers with one another and with the wider network
Share and contribute to current OpenHIE global goods, multi-country implementation experiences, and foster wider collaboration both within Tanzania, and globally
Bring implementers and developers together to harmonize tool development with implementation needs
Provide policy makers with an opportunity to better understand OpenHIE and its role in promoting interoperability and systems thinking
Who should attend
OpenHIE implementers from government, NGOs
Government Officials including ICT and eHealth Directors responsible for health information systems
Digital Health Policy Makers
Vertical health program implementers interested in interoperability
Health Information System software developers
Researchers
Why you should attend
This event provides a unique opportunity for implementers to collaborate and improve their knowledge of OpenHIE, share user stories, and to propose new priorities. Too, government leaders will gather and learn from each other about approaches to designing interoperable solutions as well as governance frameworks that have been applied for health system information exchange.
Conference Schedule
The OpenHIE Community Meeting agenda will feature several tracks, including those specifically for government leaders as well as one for OpenHIE Implementers. Additional tracks for developers will also be included to connect the community meeting with the Connect-a-thon. Stay tuned for the agenda to be posted here.
In additional to pre-arranged sessions, the agenda will have several open “unconference” sessions where community members will propose presentations on topics relevant to their OpenHIE implementations. Stay tuned for more details on proposing session ideas.
Connect-a-thon
The exchange of health system metadata is a critical issue for LMICs to address as they:
improve the monitoring of health system performance;
strive to meet SDG targets;
prioritize interventions to improve the quality of care and clinical outcomes; and
provide continuity of care across multiple levels and service providers in the health system.
Meeting these goals is rapidly driving a consensus on best practices and standards for interoperability of digital health tools for use in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). Leveraging HL7 FHIR and OpenHIE is foundational.
Growing requests for accessible, affordable and expanded standards education are emerging from national and regional LMIC health entities in both Asia and Africa. The Connect-a-thon will provide an opportunity to build local and regional expertise in the use of these data exchange standards by involving the data analysts and developers that know the data and systems in operation on the ground. In addition, the Connect-a-thon seeks to promote a culture of data use by getting people excited about the potential uses of the data they are already collecting and by crowdsourcing new uses of existing data that will improve the delivery of healthcare.
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Traveling to Tanzania
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