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Attendees:

Lon Gowen (USAID/CIO)

M. Saad Kahn (USAID/GH)

Anja Buschur (USAID/GH)

Matt Sattah (USAID/GH)

Berny Agala (MEASURE Evaluation)

Angad Dhindsa (MEASURE Evaluation)

Mark DeZalia (S/GAC CIT)

Alejandra Covarrubias

Jim Grace (HISP US)

Mark Wilson (CDC/Northrop Grumman)

Vilma Thomas (CDC/NG)

Dana Juthe (OGAC CIT - PwC)

Vlad Shioshvili (MEASURE Evaluation)

Seranita Lewis (NGC/CDC)

Angela Dormagen (USAID M/CIO)

Michael Mwebaze (MEASURE/JSI)

Xen Santas

James Kariuki (CDC)

Stacey Berlow (MEASURE Evaluation)

Krissy Celentano (USAID)

Jeremy Vanderlan (MEASURE Evaluation)

Denise Johnson (MEASURE Evaluation/ICF)

Kondwani Nkanaunena (CDC/Malawi)

Agenda:

Data Exchange Exercise Lessons Learned (Agency and Technical Team) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-oCBOyBoll6Tnd4bnFCYWNRN0U/view?usp=sharing

Updates to the Facility Data Elements Code List

The SIMS v2: Facility code list has been updated to include coversheet data elements https://datim.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/signin?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fdatim.zendesk.com%2Fhc%2Fen-us%2Farticles%2F201767379-DATIM-Data-Exchange-Instructions-and-Code-Lists

Upcoming Agency Participation

The exercise guidance document has been posted on the DATIM Support page https://datim.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/signin?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fdatim.zendesk.com%2Fhc%2Fen-us%2Farticles%2F209923853-SIMS-Data-Exchange-Exercise

Minutes:

SIMS Focused call. 2nd SIMS call of the month. As per the schedule, there will be no call next week.

Files that are uploaded will only be uploaded once - after they are put on FactsInfo they will be imported into DATIM

The import file must meet the business logic and validations needed. The file will be more than just a flat file repository.

The move to DATIM from FactsInfo will be done by OGAC.

Data Exchange Exercise Lessons Learned (Agency and Technical Team) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-oCBOyBoll6Tnd4bnFCYWNRN0U/view?usp=sharing

Last week HRSA did a data exchange excercise and there were lessons learned on both ends. The excercise is still in progress, and more information will be added to the document as excercices are conducted. HRSA discussed the lessons they learned over the course of the call.

The lessons learned start on page 18 in the document

Is there an availible data dictionary? It is something that the project is working on. Annah will follow up the ETA for the data dictionary one week from now. The SIMS core log can be used to highlight SIMS data points for SIMS 2.0