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Attendees:
- Carl Leitner (IntraHealth)
- Jamie Thomas (Regenstrief)
- Jennifer Shivers (Regenstrief)
- Paul Biondich (Regenstrief)
- Vladimer Shioshvili (Measure Evaluation)
- Lorinne Banister (Regenstrief)
- Manish Kumar (MEASURE Evaluation)
- Lungowe Mwapela (CDC-Zambia)
- Amy Handler (MEASURE Evaluation)
- Michael Mwebaze (JSI/MEASURE Evaluation)
- Arthur Kachemba (CDC-Zambia)
- Otse Ogorry (USAID/Nigeria)
- Jason Pickering (University of Oslo)
- Mounkaila A. Billo (USAID/Nigeria)
- Stacey Berlow (Project Balance)
- Josephine Mungurere-Baker (BAO)\
- Sam Wambugu (MEASURE Evaluation)
Agenda:
- Roll Call and Welcome to the Community (Denise and Manish)
- Introduction to OHIE (Paul)
- Community Discussion (All)
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Minutes:
Roll Call and Welcome to the Community (Denise and Manish)
- Amy Handler will be the Community Manager
- The vision of the PEPFAR data exchange is for data to be collected once, and to be used by many.
- Developer under Open Health Information Exchange (OpenHIE) - a communities of communities
Introduction of OHIE (Paul)
- OpenHIE is a community of practice to help countries develop a health information exchange
- OHIE.ORG is a website to help you get in touch with the larger OpenHIE initiative.
Data Import (Manish)
- Deadline for validated data import files for APR: November 6, 2015
- Any requests that require a formal response from the DATIM help desk should be submitted to DATIM Support, not posted to the community forum
- Please use the community forum for sharing best practices and assisting each other with developing data import files
Data Exchange (Denise)
- IP Monthly Version - Will be available this month
- allows monthly data reporting; supports aggregation to quarterly reporting and sychronizing with DATIM on mechanisms, sites and indicators.
- Denise will share announcement with the mailing list
Data Exchange Version
- Uses the IHE aggregate data exchange profile, ADX
- Should be seeing DATIM specific resources over the next month
- Starting with MER and then moving to SIMS
- The data exchange versio is also working on syncing data points using standards and automated transactions - resources out in the next several months
- There will be some work for third-party systems to implement the standards necessary to exchange data
- We will have community calls in the future to talk about the details and specifics around all of these topics.
- Community Discussion (All)
- What do people want to see from the community and how do they want to participate?
- There is another call at this time with a simalr topic so it would be good to take that into consideration and align with that group.
- BL - Scrum call about SIMS issues
- PB - Messages from PROMIS to PEPFAR. Are there other groups that are interested in this?
- TZ - There is a plan to do a demonstration to show different hookups, want to be able to confirm that they work together
- Jason - only have two out of 7 clinical partners that can work electronically and want to avoid parallel system, but Moz is interested in working towards having partners conducting data exchange
- Denise - What information are you hoping to get from this call or the next serise of calls?
- Ali-need to see how ADX standard impacts data export in DHIS2
- MG - keeping community up to date on new data elements
- TZ - Agree and want to include an "as of" date that tells when an indicator has been added or changed so that we can see adds or changes immediately
- Serenita-show what countries have done and especially "newbies" to the call
- PB - Important for implementers to help the team understand what you need so that we can support you and talk about your topic on this call
- DJ - We want to all move forward together and we hope that you will readh out through the mailing list and other channels to share your ideas on what is needed
- SV - Interested in fully automating with the DATIM team. We are interested in topics related to synchronization of metadata (indicators)
- JS - will have documentation on how a system can integrate with DATIM
- MG - would like to hear people share there expereinces and lessons learned (ex.data validation scripts) so people can use that information in their wn projects
- SB - Working with a team and would love to do data exchange with DHIS2 and another system called "Wana". I'm not sure who to reach out to concerning specific topics. Is there a way to have a roster of who has what experiese?
- JT - possible suggestions for communicating with the broader group - update profiles on the wiki and you could also email the mailing list with any questions
- PB - there are lots of ways to support getting to know each other from a technology perspective, but maybe we can do a survey or something to collect data about each person's expertise and interests
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