2018 OpenHIE Community Meeting

About the Event

The OpenHIE Community meeting at Mount Meru Hotel and Conference Centre is designed to support developers, implementers, and Government officials in fostering the advancement of OpenHIE and the support of country owned and driven, large-scale health information sharing architectures. It will serve to showcase the strategy, approach and components that pragmatically empower sustainable and standards-based sharing of health information to improve health outcomes.  The meeting will also highlight existing OpenHIE implementations and provide a platform for community learning and discussion about OpenHIE in action.

The meeting will included 3 days of sessions (July 31 - August 2) and 2 days for a Connect-a-thon (August 3-4).

Objectives

• Connect implementers with one another and with the wider network

• Share and contribute to current OpenHIE global goods, multi-country implementation experiences, and foster wider collaboration both within Tanzania, and globally

• Bring implementers and developers together to harmonize tool development with implementation needs

• Provide  policy makers with an opportunity to better understand OpenHIE and its role in promoting interoperability and systems thinking

Who should attend

• OpenHIE implementers from government, NGOs

• Government Officials including ICT and eHealth Directors responsible for health information systems

• Digital Health Policy Makers

• Vertical health program implementers interested in interoperability

• Health Information System software developers

• Researchers

Why you should attend

This event provides a unique opportunity for implementers to collaborate and improve their knowledge of OpenHIE, share user stories, and to propose new priorities. Too, government leaders will gather and learn from each other about approaches to designing interoperable solutions as well as governance frameworks that have been applied for health system information exchange.

Conference Schedule

The OpenHIE Community Meeting agenda is structured to allow time for community members to connect, engage and learn about topics that are important to them. Sessions during the three days will be relevant for implementers looking to dive into the technical aspects of OpenHIE implementation as well as leaders who want to learn more about governance aspects of interoperability and health information exchange. In additional to pre-arranged sessions, the agenda will have several open “unconference” sessions where community members will propose presentations on topics relevant to their OpenHIE implementations. If you have ideas to propose for agenda sessions, please contact Amanda BenDor (abendor@path.org) or Carl Fourie (carl@jembi.org).

See below the outline of the agenda for the OpenHIE Community Meeting.  The agenda will be updated in the weeks before the conference.

Day 1 - “Enabling System Interoperability”

Slides

*Please post presentation slides here

Day 2 - “Country-Driven Success”

Time	Location	Session Description	Presenter(s)	Slides *Please post presentation slides here
8:00 - 8:30 AM	Marquee Conference Room	Opening and Recap from Day 1	Henry Mwanyika, PATH
8:30 - 9:30 AM	Marquee Conference Room	Implementers’ Experiences: Experience in implementing HIE at the National Level - Tanzania Story	Walter Ndesanjo - ICT Officer, Tanzania MoHCGDEC Sultana Seif - ICT Officer, Tanzania MOHCGDEC Erick Kitali, Director of ICT, Tanzania PORALG TBA, Tanzania eGovernment Agency
	Tembo Meeting Room	Leadership and Governance: Cross Border HIE	Dr. Ahmed Bashir, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
	Faru Meeting Room	Leadership and Governance: Building Interoperable Solutions Fishbowl discussion	Thomas Fogwill, CSIR Carl Fourie, Jembi Health Systems Pierre Dane, Jembi Health Systems
9:30 - 9:45 AM		Transition Break
9:45 - 10:45	Marquee Conference Room	Implementers’ Experiences - Highlights from Ministry of Health in Ethiopia	Fekadu Wannaw, John Snow, Inc (JSI)	Ethiopia's Experience Implementing an eHealth Architecture
	Tembo Meeting Room	"Unconference" Open Session - Workforce Development: How to train people on HIEs	Brian Dixon
	Faru Meeting Room	"Unconference" Open Session - Ukraine Experience	Oleg	NETWORK_eHealth_Tanzania.pdf
10: 45 - 11:15 AM		Coffee Break and Networking
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM	Marquee Conference Room	Implementers’ Experiences: Where there is no EMR - South African Experience	Andrew Boulle - University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa
	Tembo Meeting Room	Implementers' Experiences: Introducing the new openHIE Health Financing towards UHC community	Alicia Spengler, GIZ Carl Leitner, PATH
	Faru Meeting Room	"Unconference" Open Session - Supply Chain sub-committee	Craig Appl
12:15 - 12:30 PM		Transition Break
12:30 - 1:15 PM	Marquee Conference Room	Implementers’ Experiences: Liberia's ongoing in-country initiatives to adopt the OpenHIE architectural framework for building the country’s HIS	Mike Mulbah, MOH LIberia Ally Shabon, IntraHealth International Emily Nicholson, IntraHealth International
	Tembo Meeting Room	"Unconference" Open Session - openIMIS for Universal Health Coverage & National Health Insurance - a valuable use case for the openHIE framework	Alicia Spengler, GIZ Carl Leitner, PATH Nils Kaiser	Outputs of working groups https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nkkqklwo8ruaxry/AADJVZDT673UUiAqWYeIrPIxa?dl=0
	Faru Meeting Room	"Unconference" Open Session - Value Based Priorities for Data Exchange	Michael Stelmach
1:15 - 2:15 PM		Lunch and Networking
2:15 - 3:15 PM	Marquee Conference Room	SESSION CANCELLED	SESSION CANCELLED
	Tembo Meeting Room	Implementers’ Experiences: Experiences Implementing the Health Facility Registry	Diao Diallo, JSI Bah Oury - RTI Gretchen Moran - eHealth Africa Pooben Dass - NHIIS South Africa Jermiah Chienda - Kuunika
	Faru Meeting Room	"Unconference" Open Session - explore Opportunities of using OpenHIE in community services referral and case management	Makunda
3:15 - 3:45 PM		Coffee Break and Networking
3:45 - 4:45 PM	Marquee Conference Room	Implementers’ Experiences: Country Sharing Roundtable - facilitated by Dykki Settle with audience Q&A	Dykki Settle (PATH) and MOH Leaders
4:45 - 5:30 PM	Marquee Conference Room	Wrap up and reflections from the day	Carl Fourie, Jembi Health Systems
6pm	Foyer	Evening Event

Day 3 - “Innovations breaking new ground in information exchange”

Time	Location	Session Description	Presenter(s)	Slides *Please post presentation slides here
7:30 AM - 1:00 PM		Site visits (sign up on Day 1)
8:00 - 8:30 AM	Marquee Conference Room	Opening and Recap from Day 2	Wayan Vota, IntraHealth International
8:30 - 11:00	Foyer	Transportation leaves for Site Visits
8:30 - 9:15 AM	Marquee Conference Room	The African Health Information Exchange (Data Use Partnership) project in South Africa	Andrew Boulle, University of Cape Town Rosemary Foster, HST Chris Seebregts, Jembi Health Systems
	Tembo Meeting Room	"Unconference" Open Session - eIDSR	Wayan Vota Carl Fourie
	Faru Meeting Room	"Unconference" Open Session - Indicator Reporting and Analysis	James K Bryn R Ismail Carl Leitner
9:15 - 9:30 AM		Transition Break
9:30 - 10:30 AM	Marquee Conference Room	"Unconference" Open Session - Case Based Surveillence	Richard Gakuba Samuel L Eric M
	Tembo Meeting Room	"Unconference" Open Session - Global Open Facility Registry (GOFR)	Luke Duncan Ally Shaban
	Faru Meeting Room	"Unconference" Open Session - Hospital Experience Integrating with Interoperability Layer	Michael S.
10:30 - 11:00 AM		Coffee Break - Networking
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Marquee Conference Room	Leadership and Governance: OpenHIE Communities	Carl Fourie, Jembi Health Systems Paul Biondich, Regenstrief
	Tembo Meeting Room	"Unconference" Open Session - Open discussion: Amending the OpenHIE Architecture Diagram to better show where custom/implementation specific systems fit in	Ryan Crichton, Jembi Health Systems
	Faru Meeting Room	"Unconference" Open Session - Data Sharing Policies and Protocols; Information Security	Brian Dixon Terry Cullen
12:00 - 12:15 PM		Transition Break
12:15 - 1:15 PM	Marquee Conference Room	"Unconference" Open Session - Tanzania Experience of the Health Information Mediator	JSI, MOH
	Tembo Meeting Room	"Unconference" Open Session - OpenHIE at Regional Levels and Multi-Country Data Exchange	Wilfred S
	Faru Meeting Room	"Unconference" Open Session - Governance of the Community	Erick G.
1:15 - 2:15 PM		Lunch and Networking
2:15 - 3:00 PM	Marquee Conference Room	Interoperability and Standards: OpenHIE on FHIR	Carl L Ryan C Trevor
	Tembo Meeting Room	"Unconference" Open Session - Feedback Loops and Desolved Decision Making	Adele W
	Faru Meeting Room	"Unconference" Open Session - Patient Identification and Biometrics	Teddy Victor Chelule, Living Goods Paul
3:00 - 3:30 PM		Coffee Break and Networking
3:30 - 4:15 PM	Marquee Conference Room	Interoperability and Standards: Accredited reference implementation software and Standards Compliance and Procedures	Shaun Grannis, Regenstrief Carl Fourie, Jembie Health Systems Luke Duncan, IntraHealth International Ryan Crichton, Jembi Health Systems Carl Leitner, PATH
	Tembo Meeting Room	Implementers’ Experiences: Uganda Interoperability Model based on OpenHIE	Jonathan Mpango, Makerere University Kenneth Musenge CDC, Uganda
	Faru Meeting Room	"Unconference" Open Session - How to assess and continuously improve maturity of health information systems for achieving better health outcomes	Manish Kumar, MEASURE Evaluation James Kariuki, CDC
4:15 - 4:30 PM		Transition Break
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Marquee Conference Room	Closing the Community Meeting	Paul Biondich, Regenstrief

What is the “Unconferencing” Approach? 

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, 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. 

Unconference Session Proposals

Unconferencing lets you (as the attended) set the topics you'd be interested in attending or presenting so please feel free to propose early session topic ideas to be considered and voted for "unconference sessions".

Ad Hoc Note Taking

During OHIE18 we strongly encourage those having ad hoc meetings to take virtual / collaborative notes and post them to this wiki page below is instruction on how to create an OpenHIE community ether pad and a table to keep your notes so you can easily find them later.

1. Go to https://notes.ohie.org
2. Type in "YYYY-MM-DD Topic Title"
3. Hit "OK" and ether pad will create the page for you
4. Ad the Topic and URL in the table below

Site Visits

As part of the OpenHIE Community Meeting, participants will have the opportunity to visit health facilities in or near Arusha city, to see Electronic Immunization Registry implemented by the BID Initiative that used components of the OpenHIE architecture.  Each site visit will include no more than 10 people, and will include a demonstration of the immunization registry system in operation at the site.  The site visit will also showcase data use strategies that used by the team to build data use culture among frontline health care workers. 

All participants who register to attend the OpenHIE Community Meeting can participate in one site visit at no additional charge.  Participants will sign up for site visits during the first day of the conference.  Site visits will be planned in parallel to the meeting sessions.  Site visits will take place the morning of the third day of the Community Meeting  (Thursday, August 2) and the morning of the first day of the Connect-a-thon (Friday, August 3).  It is recommended that participants who are not joining the Connect-a-thon plan to attend a site visit on August 3, the day after the Community Meeting.  It is recommended that participants who are participating in the Connect-a-thon, join site visits on August 2, the third day of the Community Meeting.

Connect-a-thon

Please visit the connectathon page for more information: 2018 OpenHIE Connectathon

The exchange of health system metadata is a critical issue for LMICs to address as they:

• improve the monitoring of health system performance;

• strive to meet SDG targets;

• prioritize interventions to improve the quality of care and clinical outcomes; and

• provide continuity of care across multiple levels and service providers in the health system.

Meeting these goals is rapidly driving a consensus on best practices and standards for interoperability of digital health tools for use in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). Leveraging HL7 FHIR and OpenHIE is foundational.  

Growing requests for accessible, affordable and expanded standards education are emerging from national and regional LMIC health entities in both Asia and Africa.  The Connect-a-thon will provide an opportunity to build local and regional expertise in the use of these data exchange standards by involving the data analysts and developers that know the data and systems in operation on the ground.   In addition, the Connect-a-thon seeks to promote a culture of data use by getting people excited about the potential uses of the data they are already collecting and by crowdsourcing new uses of existing data that will improve the delivery of healthcare.

Agenda and more details can be found HERE.

NOTE: The connect-a-thon is free to attend, but expressed interest is required during registration for the conference because space is limited. If you have any questions please contact Jamie Thomas.

Registration

Apply for Scholarship

The inaugural 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 and 2 day Connect-a-thon. The event will take place at Mount Meru Hotel and Conference Center on July 31 - August 4 in Arusha, Tanzania.

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 June 15, 2018. No late applications will be accepted. Recipients of scholarships will be notified by June 30, 2018.

The Scholarship Application Period has closed.  Scholarships will be announced in late June.

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Traveling to Tanzania

Visas and Invitation Letters: 

Information about visas can be found here: http://www.tanzaniaconsul.com/visa.html  

There are some countries which their nationals require special clearance from the Commissioner General of Immigration or the Commissioner of Immigration (Zanzibar) prior to issuance of the Visa. These countries fall under the referral visa category. Applicants whose nationals fall under referral visa category are not advised to book flight tickets or make any reservations before they get their visa.

List of Countries which their Nationals require Referral Visa:

• Afghanistan
• Azerbaijan
• Bangladesh
• Chad
• Djibouti
• Ethiopia
• Eritrea
• Equatorial Guinea
• Kazakhstan Republic
• Kyrgyzstan Republic
• Lebanon
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Niger
• Palestine
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Somali land
• Somalia
• Sri Lanka
• Tajikistan
• Turkmenistan
• Uzbekistan     
• Stateless (persons or persons with refugee status)

To do this, simply send an email to the Tanzania consulate nearest to you (eg embassy in Washington DC). The email must contain:

- The visa application form duly completed, stating the name and the contact information in Tanzania.

- A copy of the first pages of the passport

- A copy of the ticket (recommended)

Once the request is sent, the consulate sends documents for processing at the Immigration Service in Tanzania that returns a certificate in pdf format to present on site for the establishment of the visa.

The duration of treatment is quite random, it can last from 3 days to 6 weeks depending on the season. Do not hesitate to call the consulate to obtain information.

 If you require an invitation letter please contact Esther Mushi as soon as possible. Yellow fever vaccination cards are a prerequisite for your travel to Tanzania.

Vaccinations

For a list of CDC recommended vaccines, visit here: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/traveler/none/tanzania

Accommodations

Transport

To coordinate transport for people from and to Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA) 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 Jamal Nassor - jnassor@path.org. 

Event Sponsorships

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Please contact ohie-implementers@googlegroups.com for more information.