Objectives
- Opportunity for implementers to collaborate and improve their knowledge of OpenHIE
- Share user stories
- Propose new priorities
- Learn from each other about approaches to designing interoperable solutions
- Learn about governance frameworks that have been applied for health system information exchange
Who Should Attend & Why
- Ministry of Health and ICT Leaders who want to learn more about the governance structures around information exchange, architectures and data standards
- Experienced OpenHIE community members and ICT implementers who want to share their experiences and learn from others
- Developers of related health and healthcare application software who want to learn more about standards and system interoperability
- Anyone new to the OpenHIE community who wants to connect with others interested in health information exchange
- Anyone interested in learning about the community, health information architecture, deployment and maintenance of OpenHIE solutions
Conference Schedule
The theme for this years 2019 Community Meeting is data for decision making. The global public health community is driving interoperability in a rapidly changing context, including calls for sustainable universal health coverage (UHC), shifting burdens of disease from communicable to non-communicable diseases, and accelerating HIV/AIDS epidemic control. The objectives are to drive easier and safe data use in software products and interoperability workflows. All sessions at the Community Meeting are meant to be interactive, informative sessions to share best practices and lessons learnt.
Session Types
Conference: These sessions are chosen by the organizers to highlight OpenHIE goals and achievements. Tracks include; Data Exchange, Implementation Experiences, Leadership & Governance
Unconference: Community-defined topics that are chosen at the conference venue. This is crowd-sourcing to meet evolving the needs of attendees
Academy: These sessions have defined learning objectives and end with a short quiz on the concepts. Attending several academy sessions results in a Certificate of Accomplishment.
Product Demos: Solutions that align with the OpenHIE Architecture will be on display for attendees to explore.
Coding Club: Participants can reserve a space to code with like minded colleagues
"Unconference" Session Details
The OpenHIE Community meeting agenda will have some preset sessions, much like you see at other conferences. But the agenda also has some “Unconference” sessions in which participants determine the agenda. At the OpenHIE Community Meeting, we want to be sure Community Members get what they need from the conference, so the flexible agenda will enable time and space for important discussions to occur. This innovative approach of “Unconferencing” has been applied at conferences in the technology sector (i.e. Google) and has been very well received as an approach to customize a conference to meet the peer-to-peer learning goals of participants.
One the first day of the OpenHIE meeting, we will have an interactive session where participants will propose sessions they would like to see added to the agenda. Some Community Members are already proposing these sessions using the wiki page table below, seeding ideas that are important ahead of the Community Meeting. During the interactive session, we’ll compile a list of all the sessions proposed and participants will vote on their top choices. Those with the most votes will be added to the “Unconference” sessions in the agenda of the meeting before the end of the first day. Please check https://https://ohie.org/ohie19 for updates to the agenda.
As mentioned above we are taking suggestions for proposed sessions ahead of the Community meeting so please share topics you want to hear about below to help with this process.
The conference agenda is currently under construction, stay tuned here for more information. |
Propose Conference Topics
Members of the community have asked to bring up proposed session topics prior to the #OHIE19 event. We encourage community members to add topics they would like to hear about to the table below and then for people to vote on topics they see in the list that they would like to hear about, you must have or create an OpenHIE login to "add Entry" to the table or vote.
Note all proposed topics are suggestions meant to help with #OHIE19 event planning and are not guaranteed. |
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id | Topic | Brief Description of Proposed Session | Person Proposing Topic (Person is not necessarily the presenter but noted so we can follow up with them if needed) | Proposed Speaker |
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2019-07-26T15:15:24.812-4 | Governance of HIE | Panel of country experts sharing lessons learned, challenges, and best practices | |
| 2019-07-26T15:21:53.721-4 | Hackonnect-a-thon: How to say it and what is it? | Provide event participants with an overview of what is planned for the Hackonnect-a-thon so they know what to expect. |
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| 2019-07-26T15:25:09.046-4 | Use of FHIR in HIE | HOT TOPIC | |
| 2019-07-26T15:25:32.962-4 | Information Exchange for Improving Health Outcomes | This session will include “how to” example and lessons from health system on developing HIE frameworks, value propositions, where to start, tools and lessons learnt Universal health coverage, patient centered care, etc “Un-conference session”
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| 2019-07-26T15:25:36.535-4 | Ethiopia Showcase (in lieu of site visits) |
| Ethiopia MoH | Ethiopia MoH and Data Use Partnership | 2019-07-26T15:27:04.475-4 | Strategies to Implementation |
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| 2019-07-26T15:27:49.792-4 | Supply Chain Overview | Get a peak into the Supply Chain subcommunity gain a better understanding of how they got set up as sub community, whats been happing, point to resources and the future. |
| | 2019-08-01T10:57:48.134-4 | Patient Matching | IDing patients, need for sharing patient details vs. confidentiality | Ethiopia MoH |
| 2019-08-01T10:58:44.121-4 | Planning for Performance and Scaling HIE |
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| 2019-08-01T10:58:46.102-4 | HIE Governance, finance, data sharing, regulatory and legal | Governance models, frameworks and best practices Things to plan for robust regulatory and legal framework Client ID systems At-scale implementation strategies “Un-conference session”
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| 2019-08-01T11:00:51.880-4 | Monitoring and Measuring: UHC, quality of service, equity |
| Ethiopia MoH |
| 2019-08-01T11:01:07.440-4 | Data Sharing Policy and Standardization |
| Ethiopia JSI |
| 2019-08-01T11:01:08.857-4 | Case-based Surveillance |
| @James Kariuki | Eric-Jan manders | 2019-08-01T11:01:10.455-4 | How to Better Collaborate with OpenHIE |
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| 2019-08-01T11:02:16.479-4 | Measurement, Evaluation and Learning | |
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| 2019-08-01T11:02:18.024-4 | What is a Global Good? Why should I use Global Goods and how do I implement them? | 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? |
| | 2019-08-01T11:02:20.340-4 | Universal Health Coverage | What is the role of information architecture, standards and exchanges | Ethiopia JSI |
| 2019-08-01T11:03:19.777-4 | Country Experiences | Architecture Lessons learned
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| 2019-08-01T11:03:21.279-4 | Implementer Experiences | |
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| 2019-08-01T11:03:48.545-4 | OpenHIE Specification | What it is an how to navigate it | Jennifer E Shivers |
| 2019-08-01T11:03:50.221-4 | Academy Course: Ethiopia Electronic Health Architecture and Interoperability | Share Ethiopia's eHealth architecture with participants | Mekelle University | Ethiopia MoH / Data Use Partnership | 2019-08-07T13:08:22.736-4 | Client registry, and advanced techniques for record linkage, and incorporating biometric identifiers | The client registry is an essential component of an HIE supporting functions for record linkage and care coordination. Key aspects for discussion include support for multiple identification methods, handling of privacy/security/confidentiality, developing a reference implementation. Tools for human adjudicated identity reconciliation. | James Kariuki | Shaun Grannis Eric-Jan Manders | 2019-08-07T13:09:33.934-4 | Evaluation of HIE implementations | HIE implementation needs an evaluation framework and evaluation activities for existing implementations. Future donor funding will depend on demonstrating value from the implementation of a health information exchange. | James Kariuki | Eric-Jan Manders | 2019-08-08T10:49:47.820-4 | Building Enterprise Architecture Models for effective Information exchange |
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| 2019-08-08T10:52:17.986-4 | Implementation of HIE: Country Experiences | What challenges did countries have? How did they overcome those challenges? What are the countries future plans? | |
| 2019-08-08T10:54:26.140-4 | OpenHIM, Health facility registry, and terminology services |
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| 2019-08-12T09:39:18.944-4 | Record Locator Service | OpenHIE's current architecture presumes a single identity. That assumption may be true for many HIE's, but there are instances where you may see multiple organizations wanting to matain their own client registry (CR) or master patient index (MPI). Sometimes different CR have different subsets of the population in them. As the world gets more advanced we'll have to address the issue. In US we often have to link different CR's across different HIE's. Host a discussion around this idea and get peoples reaction. Is this a real need for countries? Is this something countries are thinking about? | | | 2019-08-12T11:56:58.816-4 | New OpenHIE Subcommunity around Laboratory Information System
| Community input for defining the priorities of an effective, representative and sustainable Laboratory Information System community of practice. | | | 2019-08-12T11:57:00.583-4 | Master facility lists and health facility registries |
| Rita Sembajwe | | 2019-08-12T12:05:30.972-4 | Integration of Health IT infrastructure with other elements of eGovernment | In particular address governance , IT security around unique patient IDs How to make and leverage APIs for a governance and technical perspective?
I am currently working on EA for country of Bhutan which has an advanced Government-to-Citizen infrastructure. I'd be happy to propose and illustrate this example to kick-off discussions . | |
| 2019-08-14T07:50:00.338-4 | Ineraction between UHC Information system and Hospital Information System
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| Mouhamed Mahi SY |
| 2019-08-14T07:50:02.091-4 | Mobile Apps |
| Mouhamed Mahi SY |
| 2019-08-14T07:50:03.565-4 | Mobile payement
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| Mouhamed Mahi SY |
| 2019-08-14T07:50:31.824-4 | Biometrcial Identification of beneficiaries
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| Mouhamed Mahi SY |
| 2019-08-14T07:50:33.244-4 | Datawhare house of insurance schemes |
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| 2019-08-16T13:37:07.205-4 | Setting terminology, exchange, and security standards for electronic disease surveillance for the African region | Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) was established in 2017 with authorities to harmonize disease control and prevention policies and surveillance systems and set standards for surveillance in Africa. Africa CDC embarked on an environmental scan to understand the extent of electronic information systems and technology in use for surveillance and the underlying information policies and standards that enable interoperability and continental data sharing and protection in Africa. Africa CDC also examined globally-available and relevant frameworks for electronic public health data exchange and standards organizations and communities of practice that can be leveraged to set terminology, exchange, and security standards for electronic disease surveillance for the African region. Africa CDC will present its findings to gather input and discuss next steps including establishment of Africa CDC Task Force for this purpose with the public health and informatics community at the OpenHIE Conference. | James Kariuki | |
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Note Taking
While we plan to have assigned note takers for Community Meeting sessions we do strongly encourage those having ad hoc meetings to take virtual / collaborative notes and post them to this wiki page. Below are instruction on how to create an OpenHIE community ether pad and a table to keep your notes so you can easily find them later.
- Go to https://notes.ohie.org
- Type in "YYYY-MM-DD Topic Title"
- Hit "OK" and ether pad will create the page for you
- Ad the Topic and URL in the table below
As a product of last years meeting OpenHIE is holding its first ever OpenHIE Academy. OpenHIE Academy courses include “up and running” and “advanced” courses. “Up and Running” courses have no prerequisites and are for all audiences, these courses will take place on Monday, 4 November. They provide participants with the essential history, concepts, and competencies to understand the role of OpenHIE as a health information exchange and how to utilize the architecture to enhance data for decision making at all levels of the health system. “Advanced” courses will be offered during general meeting days and on the last day of the conference, also know as Hackonnect-a-thon.
There will be no extra charge for OpenHIE Academy participation but space is limited so please make sure to indicate at registration if you plan to attend.
The OpenHIE Academy agenda is currently under construction, stay tuned here for more information. |
On Friday, 8 November OpenHIE will host a merger of two exciting types of meetings, what OpenHIE calls a Hackonnect-a-thon. This is a technical space for software teams and architects to engage and get their “hands-in” or “on” OpenHIE itself and see it materialised. Combining the principles of a connectathon and a hackathon we are excited to provide a space for teams to connect their existing tools to OpenHIE workflows and use-cases as well as give the community an opportunity to propose low hanging fruit use cases for the groups to work on. Recognising that many attendees may be new to OpenHIE there is no better way than actively engaging in designing, developing, configuring, implementing and connecting to an OpenHIE architecture to learn the fundamentals and build the relationships that you will need going forward.
There will be no extra charge for OpenHIE Hackonnect-a-thon participation but space is limited so please make sure to indicate at registration if you plan to attend.
The OpenHIE Hackonnect-a-thon agenda is currently under construction, stay tuned here for more information. |
Side Meetings
Some working groups have identified this event as a good opportunity to meet face-to-face and so below we have provided a space for groups to identify themselves so others may be aware and/or participate. Please provide a couple sentences describing around your event below. *Note this does not guarantee your group meeting space during the event.
Meeting Type | Description | Date/Time | Contact |
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Architecture Face-to-Face | Aligning OHIE Architecture Leads and establish a way forward: | Sunday, November 3 from 12-5pm EAT (will want to look at flight arrival times) | Jennifer E Shivers | OpenIMIS Developers Meeting |
| TBD | Uwe Wahser |
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Applying for Scholarship
The OpenHIE Community Meeting will bring together Ministry of Health and Ministry of ICT leaders, experienced OpenHIE community members, developers of related health application software, and anyone new to the OpenHIE community who wants to learn more during a 3 day Community Meeting, Academy course and/or Hackonnect-athon. The event will take place at the Addis Ababa Hyatt Regency in Ethiopia 4-8 November 2019, find more details around sessions and the agenda at https://ohie.org/ohie19.
There will be a limited number of scholarships available, providing travel support for participants of this event. Those chosen for a scholarship should be active, motivated members of the OpenHIE community. Scholarship recipients should be ready to come to the Community Meeting, bringing ideas, experiences and lessons learned to share with other participants.
Please complete this form to apply for a Scholarship to the OpenHIE Community Meeting by 30 August 2019. No late applications will be accepted. Recipients of scholarships will be notified by 16 September 2019.
Travel
Visa
There is an online visa application and approval process for entry to Ethiopia - https://www.evisa.gov.et/#/conference-visa. If you need an invitation letter please make sure to indicate this at registration. You will then receive the letter via email 24-48 hours after you complete and pay for your registration. Please note that refunds due to being denied a visa will only be honored if OpenHIE is notified of the denial no later than two weeks prior to the event start date. If you have any questions or concerns please contact Benti Ejeta - bent_ejeta@et.jsi.com.
Vaccinations
CDC recommendations - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/traveler/none/ethiopia
Transport
The #OHIE19 planning team will help will transport to and from the airport to your hotel. To coordinate transport for people from and to Addis Ababa Bole International Airport (ADD) we will be asking for travel itineraries over the next couple of months via email. If you have already booked your travel please share you itinerary with Benti Ejeta - bent_ejeta@et.jsi.com.
Accommodations
To get the room rates indicated below at the Addis Ababa Hyatt Regency please book rooms at this special event link - CLICK HERE.
Room | Single Rate (USD) | Double Rate (USD) |
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1 King Bed | 170.00 | 190.00 |
1 King Bed Deluxe City View | 220.00 | 240.00 |
1 King Bed Deluxe Courtyard View | 230.00 | 250.00 |
2 Twin Beds | 170.00 | 190.00 |
Other accommodations in the area Marriott Executive Apartments (1 min walk from Hyatt Regency). If you have any questions or concerns please contact Melat Argaw - melat_argaw@et.jsi.com.
Event Sponsorship
How can you help support OpenHIE events?
Cash (logo placement, keynote)
Pay for line item (logo placement)
Pay for participation for individuals (at organizations discretion) or scholarships
If you are interested in assisting with the 2019 OpenHIE Community Meeting or future events please email support@ohie.org.