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Background
Since it’s existence the openIMIS Initiative has been pre-actively seeking exchange with stakeholders in the field of finance and insurance for Universal Health coverage. As a result, the Initiative was also contacted by a number of other software developers, who build software to support scheme operators in low and middle income countries. Although several bi-lateral encounters were made, these relations remained in a casual state with little evidence for a further collaboration. The idea was born to get like minded developers at one table to brainstorm on potential synergies and develop ideas for a more substantial co-operations.
In June / July 2020 GIZ’s social protection global sector programme organize organized a series of meetings with various solution providers from the health financing space. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the workshops were organize organized as remote sessions and facilitated using a collaborative platforms for collaborative whiteboard platform whiteboards (https://miro.com/app/) and videoconferencing (https://meet.jit.si/).
Objectives
The objective of the sessions were
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Solution provider | Active in | Based in | URL |
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openIMIS Developers and partners (Consortium led by GIZ, incl. BlueSquare, Possible Health, Digital Square) | Nepal, Tanzania, Cameroon, Tchad | Germany / Switzerland / Nepal / Belgium | |
BlueSquare / openRBF | 21 countries in sub-Saharan Africa | Belgium | |
Carepay / PharmAccess | Nigeria, Kenya | Netherlands | |
Healthix | Kenya | Kenya | |
mTomady | Madagascar | Germany |
Methodology
The meetings took care over 3 workshops, which covered the following sessionsgroup agreed to exchange on three virtual workshops:
Date | Agenda | |
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23/06/2020 | Introductions and scoping | |
10/07/2020 | Busines Models, Systems Integration, Business Process Harmonisation | |
22/07/2020 | Data Protection & GDPR, AI support |
After each event the group discussed and voted on focus topics that would be covered in the following sessions, giving the team of moderators some days to prepare the sessions and identify speakers for lightning talks. The deep dive sessions were organized to include a quick (15-20min) presentation followed by Q&A and a group excercise co-working activity using the collaborative whiteboard (for example, identification of challenges and mitigations, or enumeration of APIs).
Date | SessionGroup excercise | Co-working activities |
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Presentation of all solutions | Brainstorming and voting of topics | |
Open Source Business Models | Discussion: What examples are there out there of similar markets and tools that we can learn from? | |
Data System Integration, HL7 / FHIR | Interoperability mapping, collecting integrations from different teams (which systems, what interfaces / protocol / standard) and sorting according to openHIE architecture | |
Harmonization of processes of different health insurances | Process mapping, collecting which processes from the matrix are supported by which platform. | |
Data confidentiality & Protection | Partners introduce their challenges and solutions | |
AI & Fraud - Initiatives of the different partners | Roundtable - all partners present / explain projects involving AI & Machine Learning | |
Consolidation | Evaluation and voting on future collaboration channels |
The workshops where moderated by an external consultant (Nils Kaiser) and the support for the Miro collaborative whiteboards was coordinated by the digital agency PPW.
Outcomes
The documentation results of the sessions including slides and results screenshots of the sessions on the collaborative whiteboards can be found were documented in the openIMIS wiki for all 3 workshops:
Revisiting the objectives set above, here is our impression from the workshop:
Objective | Outcome |
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| All organisations introduced themselves and their solutions. Partners started engaging in bi-lateral exchanges. |
| Throughout the discussions, differences and commonalities in business models and approaches became clearer. |
| The discussion about open source business models and sustainability, as well as discussions on interoperability / FHIR and data privacy had a lot of engagement by all partners, thus indicating a common interest in further exploring these topics. |
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