This agenda is under construction and subject to change.


Session Types

Plenary: Keynote and panel discussions where attendees come together.

Conference Session: These sessions are chosen by the organizers based on community input around community proposed topics for unconference sessions and to highlight OpenHIE. 

"Unconference" Sessions: Community-defined topics that are chosen at the conference venue. This is crowd-sourcing to meet the evolving needs of attendees.

Showcase/Product Demo:Solutions that align with the OpenHIE Architecture will be on display for attendees to explore.



(November 4) - OpenHIE Academy Intro Courses

TimeLocationSession DescriptionPresenter(s)
Slides
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8:00 - 8:30
Registration  
8:30 - 9:00BallroomWelcome Remarks and Overview of the Academy

Dr Amanuel Haile, Mekelle University College of Health Sciences

Organizer: Araya Medhanyie


9:00 - 10:00BallroomHistory of OpenHIE and How to Leverage ItPaul Biondich



10:00 - 11:00Ballroom

Academy Course: Intro to HIE and OpenHIE - Concepts and Conventions

Are you new to health information exchange and OpenHIE? This course overviews the essential concepts of HIEs and common terms and acronyms used by the community. Participants will enhance their fluency in the field and learn how HIEs are catalysts for data use - and why they are essential for achieving both the SDGs and Universal Health Coverage (UHC). https://wiki.ohie.org/display/documents/Glossary

Instructor: Carl Fourie

Facilitators: Measho Gebreselasie & Rigat Ashebir


11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break and Network  
11:30 - 1:00Ballroom

Academy Course: Introduction to OpenHIE - Architectural Conventions and Standards

What constitutes a HIE implementation and what do the images in the OpenHIE architectural framework represent? Participants will take a deeper dive into the OHIE architecture specification and learn how it can be used in part or in whole to establish enterprise data sharing. 

Instructor: Jennifer E Shivers

Facilitator: Samson Yohannes


1:00 - 2:15

Lunch and Group Photo


2:15 - 3:30

(Participants choose the Academy Course or the Leadership and Governance Session)

Ballroom

Academy Course: All About Registries and Workflows

What is the difference between a master facility list and a facility registry? How do private and public health care providers share data? When does a client registry become a shared health record? In this course you will develop literacy about common registries and services in a HIE, the interoperability layer, and how mediators can address many needs for customization.

Instructor: Carl Leitner

Facilitator: Abraham Gebregiorgis


Meeting Room 1

Leadership and Governance: Applying Health Information Exchange to Real World Scenarios

In this course, participants will engage in discussions of realistic scenarios in which data exchange can lead to better health outcomes, surveillance, and health systems management. Participants will learn how data exchange enhances clinical care, decision support, and M&E.

Vikas Dwivedi Dwivedi

Araya Medhanyie

Solomon Simba

TBD


3:30- 3:45
Coffee Break and Networking  

3:45 - 4:45

(Participants choose the Academy Course or the Leadership and Governance Session)

Ballroom

Academy Course: Overview of Global Data Standards

What are global standards in health IT? Why do we need them? This course demystifies the complexities of global standards, how they are created, and why they are used. Participants will learn about the institutions involved in the creation and adoption of standards, Regenstrief (LOINC), Health Level 7 (FHIR) and Integrating the Health Enterprise (mCSD, among many others), and understand how standards are used in OpenHIE Architecture Workflows.

Instructor: Luke Duncan Jonathan Payne

Facilitator: Tesfit Gebemeskel


Meeting Room 1

Leadership and Governance: What is a Global Good?

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?

Carl Fourie

TBD (co-leads from other global goods)


4:45 - 5:00BallroomWrap up and reflections from the day
Organizer: Araya Medhanyie

(November 5) - General Meeting

TimeLocationSession DescriptionPresenter(s)
Slides
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8:00 - 8:30
Registration/Networking

8:30 - 9:00BallroomFormal Opening of the Meeting and Welcome Remarks

Ethiopia Ministry of Health


9:00 - 9:45Ballroom

Public Health Challenges & HIE Vision in Ethiopia

Ethiopia Ministry of Health


9:45 - 10:15BallroomUnveiling the “Unconferencing” Approach: How to get the most out of the OpenHIE Community Meeting
10:15 - 10:30
Networking Coffee Break and "Unconference" Voting

11:15 - 12:00

Conference Session: Playing with FHIR

Relationship between FHIR and OpenHIE. How does it work into workflows, standards and profiles. Implementers share where and why they have used it.




Conference Session: General Principles for Client Identity

The client registry is an essential component of an HIE supporting functions for record linkage and care coordination. This session will be a discussion around the general principles for handling client identities such as; support for multiple identification methods, handling of privacy/security/confidentiality, developing a reference implementation and tools for human adjudicated identity reconciliation.



"Unconference" Sessions

12:00 - 12:45

Conference Session: Aligning HIS to Epidemic Control

As countries approach HIV Epidemic Control and move towards the 95.95.95 objectives, their data needs vary depending on specific programmatic objectives. More and more, we see increasing needs for patient-level data to monitor patients through the treatment cascade. Single sourced data from Electronic Medical Records have also proven to be incomplete to tell the bigger picture. Data from service delivery systems, such as laboratory and logistics, are becoming essential to increase retention and tell a more complete story of a country’s HIV response. Data exchange and interoperability is now a required capability in our HIS eco-system. The data needs are changing both in variety and velocity. We are moving towards close-to real-time availability of patient-level as well as aggregate data to increase effectiveness as well as determine early course corrections and interventions.  The indicators needed are also becoming more and more local and temporary to focus on specific programmatic activities. The analytics and visuals expected also require more predictive and prescriptive approaches using machine learning and advances in visualization. In general, we are now in a new era where data is integrated from multiple-systems; indicators are local and temporary, and our analytics needs are moving predictive beyond the diagnostic paradigm.



Conference Session: Hackonnect-a-thon: How to say it and what is it?

An overview of what the Hackonnect-a-thon is, outcomes of last year's hackonnect-a-thon, and plans for this year's session.



"Unconference" Sessions

12:45 - 2:15
Lunch and Group Photo

2:15 - 3:00
"Unconference" Sessions


"Unconference" Sessions


"Unconference" Sessions

3:00 - 3:15
Coffee Break and Networking

3:15 - 4:00
"Unconference" Sessions


"Unconference" Sessions


Showcase/Product Demo

Solutions that align with the OpenHIE Architecture will be on display for attendees to explore.



4:00 - 4:15
Transition Break

4:15 - 5:00
Wrap up and reflections from the Day1

(November 6) - General Meeting

TimeLocationSession DescriptionPresenter(s)
Slides
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8:00 - 8:30
Opening and Recap from Day 1



8:30 - 9:15
OpenHIE State of the Union
9:15 - 9:30
Transition Break



9:30 - 10:15
Conference Session:


"Unconference" Sessions


"Unconference" Sessions

10:15 - 10:45
Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:00
"Unconference" Sessions


"Unconference" Sessions


"Unconference" Sessions

11:00 - 11:15
Transition Break

11:15 - 12:00
"Unconference" Sessions


"Unconference" Sessions


"Unconference" Sessions

12:00 - 12:15
Transition Break

12:15 - 1:15
"Unconference" Sessions


"Unconfernce" Sessions


Showcase/Product Demo

Solutions that align with the OpenHIE Architecture will be on display for attendees to explore.



 1:15 - 2:15
Lunch / Networking



 2:15 - 3:00

Emerging HIE Use Cases

There are several use cases that the larger community is addressing.  The purpose of this session is to provide an overview of some of the health use cases that are currently being explored.  

Facilitator:Jennifer E Shivers

Panelists:  

Annah Ngaruro, Uwe Wahser


3:00 - 3:30
Transition Break

3:30 - 4:15
"Unconference" Sessions


"Unconference" Sessions


"Unconference" Sessions

4:15 - 4:30
Transition Break

4:30 - 5:00
Wrap up and reflections from Day 2

(November 7) - General Meeting

TimeLocationSession DescriptionPresenter(s)
Slides
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8:00 - 8:30
Opening and Recap from Day 2



8:30 - 9:15

Governance of HIE

A panel of country experts will share their challenges, lessons learned and best practices around setting up governance around architecture for health information exchange. 

Facilitator: Paul Biondich


9:15 - 9:30
Transition Break



9:30 - 10:15
Conference Session


"Unconference" Sessions


"Unconference" Sessions

10:15 - 10:45
Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:00
"Unconference" Sessions


"Unconference" Sessions


"Unconference" Sessions

11:00 - 11:15
Transition Break

11:15 - 12:00
"Unconference" Sessions


"Unconference" Sessions


"Unconference" Sessions

12:00 - 12:15
Transition Break

12:15 - 1:15
"Unconference" Sessions


"Unconference" Sessions


Showcase/Product Demo

Solutions that align with the OpenHIE Architecture will be on display for attendees to explore.



 1:15 - 2:15
Lunch / Networking



 2:15 - 3:00
Ethiopia Showcase

Ethiopia Ministry of Health / Data Use Partnership


3:00 - 3:30
Transition Break

3:30 - 4:15
"Unconference" Sessions


"Unconference" Sessions


"Unconference" Sessions

4:15 - 4:30
Transition Break

4:30 - 5:00
Wrap up and reflections from Day 3

(November 8) - Hackonnect-a-thon

TimeLocationSession DescriptionPresenter(s)
Slides
*Please post presentation slides here
8:00 - 8:30
Opening and Introduction to the Hackonnect-a-thon



8:30 - 10:45
Building an Instant OpenHIE and Conformance Testing Framework
8:30 - 10:45
Connecting Patient-level Data to M&E systems for HIV epidemic controlTBD
8:30 - 10:45
A Client Registry Workflow from End-to-End 
10:45 - 11:00
Conference Plenary

11:00 - 11:15
Transition Break

11:15 - 12:00
Conference Plenary

12:00 - 12:15
Transition Break

12:15 - 1:15
"Unconference" Sessions

 1:15 - 2:15
Lunch / Networking



 2:15 - 3:00
"Unconference" Sessions



3:00 - 3:30
Transition Break

3:30 - 4:15
"Unconference" Sessions

4:15 - 4:30
Transition Break

4:30 - 5:00
Wrap up and reflections from Day 3