The DUC was built to leverage the expertise in clinical care, systems, policy, and data reuse and analysis, along with the field experience available across implementing agencies, ministries, and implementing partners, to create a peer support network of interested practitioners. This DUC will initially focus on guidance regarding approaches for enhancing continuity of treatment and interruption in treatment. We propose to then extend this tested approach to address other evolving priorities that can only be addressed through individual patient-level data.
The DUC will operate in a community and iterative way to support U.S. Government country teams and Ministries of Health.
The DUC will initially be working towards the following goals:
Be initiated with founding members with relevant clinical expertise for HIV prevention, treatment, and care, informatics, and data science.
Consolidate best practices, drawn from country experience, to a generally applicable and context-specific approach to improve continuity of treatment and reduce interruption in treatment, with specific attention to the data and systems approach.
Ensure field experience sharing, improve interagency coordination and collaboration, and integrate group efforts to support program goals.
If you are interested in joining, feel free to join our mailing list on our website. Also, feel free to contact info@duc.ohie.org if you have any questions.
Community Meeting Topics
December 8, 2020
January 12, 2021
February 9, 2021
Canceled
Approaches for Patient Reminders and Tracking
Requesting All Implementers!
During January's call, we would like to hear from you, the community members, about technical/paper approaches for appointment management and reminders. This would be an opportunity to share knowledge with others and ask questions of the community around approaches or solutions, like Ushauri (an SMS-based intervention implemented in Kenya). We are looking for both implementers and creators of such systems to participate on the call. If you would like to speak about your experience with appointment management on the January call, please reach out to Morgan Smith (mrs90@regenstrief.org) to set up a call with the facilitators to review the timing and presentation.
To Be Announced
Upcoming Conferences and Events
Come connect with the DUC! We will be sending representatives to conferences and events soon!
Visit our website to sign up for information regarding the Data Use Community (DUC)! https://ohie.org/duc
Community Meetings
Every 2nd Tuesday of the month from 9 - 10:30 AM Eastern Time