Registration 

To register for OHIE19, please CLICK HERE. For groups traveling together, please ensure each individual registers using the registration form.

About Event

The OpenHIE Community Meeting brings together high-level leaders from Ministries of Health across the global to better understand OpenHIE and its role in promoting health information system interoperability and enterprise architecture. The event in Ethiopia will also be only the second time OpenHIE Implementers have come together to connect and share their experiences of using OpenHIE to enable interoperability and data exchange.

This years agenda will be focused on improving data use featuring several tracks, including those specifically geared toward government leaders as well as one for OpenHIE Implementers.  Additional tracks for developers will also be included to connect the community meeting with the OpenHIE Academy & Hackonnect-a-thon.  In additional to these pre-arranged sessions, the agenda will have several open “unconference” sessions where community members will propose presentations on topics relevant to their OpenHIE implementations.

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Objectives

• Opportunity for implementers to collaborate and improve their knowledge of OpenHIE
• Share user stories
• Propose new priorities
• Learn from each other about approaches to designing interoperable solutions
• Learn about governance frameworks that have been applied for health system information exchange

Who Should Attend & Why

• Ministry of Health and ICT Leaders who want to learn more about the governance structures around information exchange, architectures and data standards
• Experienced OpenHIE community members and ICT implementers who want to share their experiences and learn from others
• Developers of related health and healthcare application software who want to learn more about standards and system interoperability 
• Anyone new to the OpenHIE community who wants to connect with others interested in health information exchange
• Anyone interested in learning about the community, health information architecture, deployment and maintenance of OpenHIE solutions
  

Conference Schedule

The theme for this years 2019 Community Meeting is data for decision making. The global public health community is driving interoperability in a rapidly changing context, including calls for sustainable universal health coverage (UHC), shifting burdens of disease from communicable to non-communicable diseases, and accelerating HIV/AIDS epidemic control. The objectives are to drive easier and safe data use in software products and interoperability workflows. All sessions at the Community Meeting are meant to be interactive, informative sessions to share best practices and lessons learnt.

Session Types - Monday through Thursday

Conference: These sessions are chosen by the organizers to highlight OpenHIE goals and achievements.  Tracks include; Data Exchange, Implementation Experiences, Leadership & Governance

Unconference: Community-defined topics that are chosen at the conference venue. This is crowd-sourcing to meet evolving the needs of attendees

Academy: These sessions have defined learning objectives and end with a short quiz on the concepts. Attending several academy sessions results in a Certificate of Accomplishment.

Product Demos: Solutions that align with the OpenHIE Architecture will be on display for attendees to explore.

Coding Club: Participants can reserve a space to code with like minded colleagues

What is "unconference"?

The OpenHIE Community meeting agenda will have some preset sessions, much like you see at other conferences.  But the agenda also has some “Unconference” sessions in which participants determine the agenda.  At the OpenHIE Community Meeting, we want to be sure Community Members get what they need from the conference, so the flexible agenda will enable time and space for important discussions to occur. This innovative approach of “Unconferencing” has been applied at conferences in the technology sector (i.e. Google) and has been very well received as an approach to customize a conference to meet the peer-to-peer learning goals of participants.

One the first day of the OpenHIE meeting, we will have an interactive session where participants will propose sessions they would like to see added to the agenda.  Some Community Members are already proposing these sessions using the wiki page table below, seeding ideas that are important ahead of the Community Meeting.  During the interactive session, we’ll compile a list of all the sessions proposed and participants will vote on their top choices.  Those with the most votes will be added to the “Unconference” sessions in the agenda of the meeting before the end of the first day. Please check https://https://ohie.org/ohie19 for updates to the agenda.

As mentioned above we are taking suggestions for proposed sessions ahead of the Community meeting so please share topics you want to hear about below to help with this process.

Conference Session Proposals

Note Taking

While we plan to have assigned note takers for Community Meeting sessions we do strongly encourage those having ad hoc meetings to take virtual / collaborative notes and post them to this wiki page. Below are instruction on how to create an OpenHIE community ether pad and a table to keep your notes so you can easily find them later.

1. Go to https://notes.ohie.org
2. Type in "YYYY-MM-DD Topic Title"
3. Hit "OK" and ether pad will create the page for you
4. Ad the Topic and URL in the table below

Academy & Hackonnect-a-thon 

Applying for Scholarship

The OpenHIE Community meeting will bring together Ministry of Health and Ministry of ICT leaders, experienced OpenHIE community members, developers of related health application software, and anyone new to the OpenHIE community who wants to learn more during a 3 day Community Meeting and 2 day Academy. The event will take place at the Hyatt Regency in Addis Ababa November 4-8 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

There will be a limited number of scholarships available, providing travel support for participants of this event. Those chosen for a scholarship should be active, motivated members of the OpenHIE Community. Scholarship recipients should be ready to come to the Community meeting, bringing ideas, experiences and lessons learned to share with other participants.

Please complete this form to apply for a Scholarship to the OpenHIE Community Meeting by August 30, 2019. No late applications will be accepted. Recipients of scholarships will be notified by September 16, 2019.

The Scholarship Application Period has not opened.

Travel

Visa

There is an online visa application and approval process for entry to Ethiopia - https://www.evisa.gov.et/#/conference-visa. You will need an invitation letter which you should receive shortly after registering for the event. If you have any questions or concerns please contact Benti Ejeta - bent_ejeta@et.jsi.com. 

Vaccinations

CDC recommendations - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/traveler/none/ethiopia

Transport

Hyatt has an airport shuttle service included in room rate or can be purchased for 13.00 USD.

Accommodations

To get the room rates indicated below at the Hyatt Regency please book rooms at this special event link - XXX. The hotel is able to take a credit card to secure the room and then charge payment when you check in. Please be advised that payment can be through bank transfer (see bank details here) or credit card guarantee and rooms without deposit will be cancelled.

Other accommodations in the area Marriott Executive Apartments (1 min walk from Hyatt Regency). If you have any questions or concerns please contact Melat Argaw - melat_argaw@et.jsi.com.

Event Sponsorship

How can you help support OpenHIE events?

• • Cash (logo placement, keynote)

  • Pay for line item (logo placement)

  • Pay for participation for individuals (at organizations discretion) or scholarships

If you are interested in assisting with the 2019 OpenHIE Community Meeting or future events please email support@ohie.org.