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Attendees:
Jamie Thomas (Regenstrief)
Angad Dhindsa (MEASURE Evaluation)
Manish Kumar (MEASURE Evaluation)
Jennifer Shivers (Regenstrief)
Mark DeZalia (OGAC)
James Kariuki (CDC)
Vlad Shioshvili (Measure Evaluation)
Angela (USAID)
Michael Mwebaze (MEASURE Evaluation/JSI
Stacey Berlow (MEASURE Evaluation)
Annah Ngaruro (ICF)
Denise Johnson (MEASURE Evaluation)
Donna Medeiros
Terry Zagar (Tanzania)
Vilma Thomas (CDC)
Brianna
Corey
Mary Kratz (DoD)
Lon Gowen (USAID/M/CIO)
Mike Gehron (OGAC)
Jim Grace (HISP)
Carl Leitner (IntraHealth)
Krissy Celentano (USAID/GH)
David Poreda (PwC)
Alejandra Covarrubias (PwC-OGAC)
Dana Juthe (PwC)
Steven Verner (Tanzania)
Agenda:
- Welcome and purpose of the meeting - Annah
- Overview of the SIMS Data Model in DATIM - Annah
- Overview of the ADX Standard - Vlad
- Sample SIMS ADX message Explained - Vlad
Minutes:
- Welcome and purpose of the meeting - Annah
- Discuss PEPFAR Data Exchange. Have dialouge and discussion on questions and concerns
- The call today will be specifically around SIMS
- We hold other calls; umbrella call, data import, SIMS
- This is the model we have arrived at around SIMS - Architecture-based approach to data exchange
- Overview of the SIMS Data Model in DATIM - Annah
- Lon - Data type documents available? Data version control logs are available.
- Question about the format of the date. YYYYMMDD? - SIMS date reported on day of collection
- Lon - Size of integer field would be nice to have
- Vilma - Some RESP's are numbered not bool
- Would need to do a mapping betweeen the SIMS code and the DATIM field code
- Vilma - There is a need to identify SNU levels
- Overview of the ADX Standard - Vlad
- Sample SIMS ADX message Explained - Vlad
- Q- Can you use UUIDs? A - Yes
- Q - is there a question structure? - A- No, this is for aggregate data.
- Data is for an org unit for a period for a specific mechanism
- Q - How does this relate to the cover page and actual questions?
- Might be helpful to have a cover page and show how the ADX message looks for that cover page.
- Want to see data in the tool and in the message
- ADX is moving towards import and export in the standard
- No plans to desupport DXF2
- Sample shown was designed to show structure, not a full message
- Q - are the 5 groups shown required? A- yes
- transmit date is in the header of the ADX
- DHIS2 developers manual covers the response that will be received after processing
- Q- What is the response like? - it will tell you that 8 were updated and one had an error
- Next PEPFAR-DEIC Umbrella call is on December 2nd @9am ET
- Mark would like to hear if this SIMS call was a useful call and if there is any feedback on how we can improve our call
- Lon - I think this call was useful. Do we have timelines for implementation by agencies?
- Mark - Will be sending out information on how to access development update
- Denise - mid-february timeline for development
- What is the plan for January?
- James - This is the first version of ADX and we will learn more as we use it.