This agenda is under construction and subject to change.
Session Types
Plenary: Keynote and panel discussions where attendees come together.
Conference Session: These sessions are chosen by the organizers based on community input around community proposed topics for unconference sessions and to highlight OpenHIE.
"Unconference" Sessions: Community-defined topics that are chosen at the conference venue. This is crowd-sourcing to meet the evolving needs of attendees.
Showcase/Product Demo:Solutions that align with the OpenHIE Architecture will be on display for attendees to explore.
(Monday, November 4) - OpenHIE Academy Intro Courses
Time | Location | Session Description | Presenter(s) | Slides *Please post presentation slides here |
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8:00 - 8:30 | Registration | |||
8:30 - 9:00 | Ballroom | Welcome Remarks and Overview of the Academy | Dr Amanuel Haile, Mekelle University College of Health Sciences Organizer: Araya Medhanyie | |
9:00 - 10:00 | Ballroom | History of OpenHIE and How to Leverage It | Paul Biondich | |
10:00 - 11:00 | Ballroom | Academy Course: Intro to HIE and OpenHIE - Concepts and Conventions Are you new to health information exchange and OpenHIE? This course overviews the essential concepts of HIEs and common terms and acronyms used by the community. Participants will enhance their fluency in the field and learn how HIEs are catalysts for data use - and why they are essential for achieving both the SDGs and Universal Health Coverage (UHC). https://wiki.ohie.org/display/documents/Glossary | Instructor: Carl Fourie Facilitators: Measho Gebreselasie & Rigat Ashebir | |
11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break and Network | |||
11:30 - 1:00 | Ballroom | Academy Course: Introduction to OpenHIE - Architectural Conventions and Standards What constitutes a HIE implementation and what do the images in the OpenHIE architectural framework represent? Participants will take a deeper dive into the OHIE architecture specification and learn how it can be used in part or in whole to establish enterprise data sharing. | Instructor: Jennifer E Shivers Facilitator: Samson Yohannes | |
1:00 - 2:15 | Lunch and Group Photo | |||
2:15 - 3:30 (Participants choose the Academy Course or the Leadership and Governance Session) | Ballroom | Academy Course: All About Registries and Workflows What is the difference between a master facility list and a facility registry? How do private and public health care providers share data? When does a client registry become a shared health record? In this course you will develop literacy about common registries and services in a HIE, the interoperability layer, and how mediators can address many needs for customization. | Instructor: Carl Leitner Facilitator: Abraham Gebregiorgis | |
Meeting Room 1 | Leadership and Governance: Applying Health Information Exchange to Real World Scenarios In this course, participants will engage in discussions of realistic scenarios in which data exchange can lead to better health outcomes, surveillance, and health systems management. Participants will learn how data exchange enhances clinical care, decision support, and M&E. | |||
3:30- 3:45 | Coffee Break and Networking | |||
3:45 - 4:45 (Participants choose the Academy Course or the Leadership and Governance Session) | Ballroom | Academy Course: Overview of Global Data Standards What are global standards in health IT? Why do we need them? This course demystifies the complexities of global standards, how they are created, and why they are used. Participants will learn about the institutions involved in the creation and adoption of standards, Regenstrief (LOINC), Health Level 7 (FHIR) and Integrating the Health Enterprise (mCSD, among many others), and understand how standards are used in OpenHIE Architecture Workflows. | Instructor: Luke Duncan Jonathan Payne Facilitator: Tesfit Gebemeskel | |
Meeting Room 1 | Leadership and Governance: What is a Global Good? This presentation provides an overview of individual Global Goods and how they address specific business domains within the health information ecosystem. How does OpenHIE provide a blueprint, using best practices in interoperability and open standards, for bringing these global goods together? | TBD (co-leads from other global goods) | ||
4:45 - 5:00 | Ballroom | Wrap up and reflections from the day | Organizer: Araya Medhanyie |
(Tuesday, November 5) - General Meeting
Time | Location | Session Description | Presenter(s) | Slides *Please post presentation slides here |
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8:00 - 8:30 | Registration/Networking | |||
8:30 - 9:00 | Ballroom | Formal Opening of the Meeting and Welcome Remarks | H.E Dr. Amir Aman, Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia Minister of Health | |
9:00 - 9:45 | Ballroom | Public Health Challenges & HIE Vision in Ethiopia | Biruk Abate, Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia | |
9:45 - 10:15 | Ballroom | Unveiling the “Unconferencing” Approach: How to get the most out of the OpenHIE Community Meeting | ||
10:15 - 10:30 | Networking Coffee Break and "Unconference" Voting | |||
11:15 - 12:00 | Conference Session: Playing with FHIR Relationship between FHIR and OpenHIE. How does it work into workflows, standards and profiles. Implementers share where and why they have used it. | |||
Conference Session: General Principles for Client Identity The client registry is an essential component of an HIE supporting functions for record linkage and care coordination. This session will be a discussion around the general principles for handling client identities such as; support for multiple identification methods, handling of privacy/security/confidentiality, developing a reference implementation and tools for human adjudicated identity reconciliation. | ||||
"Unconference" Sessions | ||||
12:00 - 12:45 | Conference Session: Aligning HIS to Epidemic Control As countries approach HIV Epidemic Control and move towards the 95.95.95 objectives, their data needs vary depending on specific programmatic objectives. More and more, we see increasing needs for patient-level data to monitor patients through the treatment cascade. Single sourced data from Electronic Medical Records have also proven to be incomplete to tell the bigger picture. Data from service delivery systems, such as laboratory and logistics, are becoming essential to increase retention and tell a more complete story of a country’s HIV response. Data exchange and interoperability is now a required capability in our HIS eco-system. The data needs are changing both in variety and velocity. We are moving towards close-to real-time availability of patient-level as well as aggregate data to increase effectiveness as well as determine early course corrections and interventions. The indicators needed are also becoming more and more local and temporary to focus on specific programmatic activities. The analytics and visuals expected also require more predictive and prescriptive approaches using machine learning and advances in visualization. In general, we are now in a new era where data is integrated from multiple-systems; indicators are local and temporary, and our analytics needs are moving predictive beyond the diagnostic paradigm. | |||
Conference Session: Hackonnect-a-thon: How to say it and what is it? An overview of what the Hackonnect-a-thon is, outcomes of last year's hackonnect-a-thon, and plans for this year's session. | ||||
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12:45 - 2:15 | Lunch and Group Photo | |||
2:15 - 3:00 | "Unconference" Sessions | |||
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3:00 - 3:15 | Coffee Break and Networking | |||
3:15 - 4:00 | "Unconference" Sessions | |||
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Showcase/Product Demo Solutions that align with the OpenHIE Architecture will be on display for attendees to explore. | ||||
4:00 - 4:15 | Transition Break | |||
4:15 - 5:00 | Wrap up and reflections from the Day1 |
(Wednesday, November 6) - General Meeting
Time | Location | Session Description | Presenter(s) | Slides *Please post presentation slides here |
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8:00 - 8:30 | Opening and Recap from Day 1 | |||
8:30 - 9:15 | OpenHIE State of the Union | |||
9:15 - 9:30 | Transition Break | |||
9:30 - 10:15 | Conference Session: National Health Data Dictionary Design and Maturity Mapping | |||
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10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee Break | |||
10:45 - 11:00 | "Unconference" Sessions | |||
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11:00 - 11:15 | Transition Break | |||
11:15 - 12:00 | "Unconference" Sessions | |||
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12:00 - 12:15 | Transition Break | |||
12:15 - 1:15 | "Unconference" Sessions | |||
"Unconfernce" Sessions | ||||
Showcase/Product Demo Solutions that align with the OpenHIE Architecture will be on display for attendees to explore. | ||||
1:15 - 2:15 | Lunch / Networking | |||
2:15 - 3:00 | Emerging HIE Use Cases There are several use cases that the larger community is addressing. The purpose of this session is to provide an overview of some of the health use cases that are currently being explored. | |||
3:00 - 3:30 | Transition Break | |||
3:30 - 4:15 | "Unconference" Sessions | |||
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4:15 - 4:30 | Transition Break | |||
4:30 - 5:00 | Wrap up and reflections from Day 2 |
(Thursday, November 7) - General Meeting
Time | Location | Session Description | Presenter(s) | Slides *Please post presentation slides here |
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8:00 - 8:30 | Opening and Recap from Day 2 | |||
8:30 - 9:15 | Governance of HIE A panel of country experts will share their challenges, lessons learned and best practices around setting up governance around architecture for health information exchange. | Facilitator: Paul Biondich | ||
9:15 - 9:30 | Transition Break | |||
9:30 - 10:15 | Conference Session: Instant OpenHIE What is it? How will it help me? What's the MVP and the timeline? | |||
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10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee Break | |||
10:45 - 11:00 | "Unconference" Sessions | |||
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11:00 - 11:15 | Transition Break | |||
11:15 - 12:00 | "Unconference" Sessions | |||
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12:00 - 12:15 | Transition Break | |||
12:15 - 1:15 | "Unconference" Sessions | |||
"Unconference" Sessions | ||||
Showcase/Product Demo Solutions that align with the OpenHIE Architecture will be on display for attendees to explore. | ||||
1:15 - 2:15 | Lunch / Networking | |||
2:15 - 3:00 | Ethiopia Showcase
| Ethiopia Ministry of Health / Data Use Partnership | ||
3:00 - 3:30 | Transition Break | |||
3:30 - 4:15 | "Unconference" Sessions | |||
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4:15 - 4:30 | Transition Break | |||
4:30 - 5:00 | Wrap up and reflections from Day 3 |
(Friday, November 8) - Hackonnect-a-thon
Time | Location | Session Description | Presenter(s) | Slides *Please post presentation slides here |
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8:00 - 8:30 | Opening and Introduction to the Hackonnect-a-thon | |||
8:30 - 10:45 | Building an Instant OpenHIE and Conformance Testing Framework | |||
8:30 - 10:45 | Connecting Patient-level Data to M&E systems for HIV epidemic control | TBD | ||
8:30 - 10:45 | A Client Registry Workflow from End-to-End | TBD | ||
10:45 - 11:00 | Conference Plenary | |||
11:00 - 11:15 | Transition Break | |||
11:15 - 12:00 | Conference Plenary | |||
12:00 - 12:15 | Transition Break | |||
12:15 - 1:15 | "Unconference" Sessions | |||
1:15 - 2:15 | Lunch / Networking | |||
2:15 - 3:00 | "Unconference" Sessions | |||
3:00 - 3:30 | Transition Break | |||
3:30 - 4:15 | "Unconference" Sessions | |||
4:15 - 4:30 | Transition Break | |||
4:30 - 5:00 | Wrap up and reflections from Day 3 |