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openIMIS is the first open-source software for the linking of the beneficiary, provider and payer data.
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These insights are also expected to refine knowledge products on ICT solutions for social (health) protection at the global level.
Application of openIMIS in Medical Universities in the Philippines
openIMIS Country Hub in the Philippines consists of partners from the (1) University of the Philippines Manila (UPM), (2) St Luke’s College of Medicine, and (3) Asian Medical Students Association Philippines.
The need for openIMIS in the university sprung various needs such as lack of practical know-how of students on health financing, limited learning tools and real-life scenarios to demonstrate the operational side of social health protection (enrolment, claims submission, reports, etc), and missing link between clinical procedures in medical schools and information systems, particularly on health financing.
In September, the openIMIS Country Hub Philippines will conduct a training of trainers (ToT) workshop on openIMIS’ application at the clinical skills lab. The event will be a venue for evaluating the openIMIS clinical skills students’ lab manual and its corresponding faculty guide, as well as the usability of the openIMIS at the academic setting.
Below is the tentative program:
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Time
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Agenda
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Resource Person
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8:00-8:10 AM
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Welcome Remarks
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Partner School
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8:10-8:30 AM
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What is openIMIS?
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AeHIN
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8:30-9:30 AM
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Part 1: Introduction to Health Systems
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AeHIN (Dr Dante Salvador)
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9:30-10:00 AM
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Part 2: Ethics, Privacy, Security, and Confidentiality
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AeHIN (Dr Alvin Marcelo)
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10:00-10:15 AM
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COFFEE BREAK
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10:15-11:15 AM
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Part 3: Interfacing with openIMIS
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AeHIN (Kristin Pascual)
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11:15-11:30 AM
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Open Forum & Evaluation Session (Strengths, Gaps, Next Steps)
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AeHIN (Charisse Orjalo)
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11:30-11:40 AM
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Closing Remarks
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Partner School
AeHIN completes first openIMIS T-o-T Workshop in UP Manila
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As part of the openIMIS initiative, AeHIN is leading the formation of an openIMIS Community of Practice (CoP) in Asia.
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AeHIN completes openIMIS ToT Workshop at SLCM
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AeHIN has successfully conducted the second leg of its openIMIS ToT Workshop held at St. Luke's College of Medicine (SLCM) last November 9.
A total of seven participants composed of students and faculty from SLCM participated in the workshop.
As suggested in the first openIMIS ToT Workshop held in UP Manila last September, AeHIN included an overview on health insurance with the help of Dr. Dante Salvador.
After the half-day workshop, the following feedback were gathered:
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Inclusion of data privacy module in the manual
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Next steps: Implementation of openIMIS in SLCM's partner community in Old Balara focused on the following:
Recording of patient data (rather than insurance)
Reports on generation
Use of openIMIS mobile app
Request for funding of laptop and mobile device in Old Balara
Request to change location variables in the system into names of streets in Old Balara
AeHIN is planning to conduct its next workshop in January 2020.
AeHIN finishes its first openIMIS T-o-T Workshop for 2020 at ASMPH
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AeHIN has conducted its first openIMIS T-o-T Workshop for the year last January 18, 2020 at the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health.
Four students from the Advocates for Consciousness and Social Involvement Society - Asian Medical Students' Association (ACSIS-AMSA) has participated in the workshop.
In this workshop, AeHIN has added a part on Ethics, Privacy, Security, and Confidentiality in both the program and the student manual.
It is expected that more information will be added through the help and suggestions of faculty and students in the upcoming workshops.
The next workshop will be held at San Beda College of Medicine on February 22.
The latest copy of the openIMIS Manual for Medical Students available here.
AeHIN completes its fourth openIMIS T-o-T Workshop in the Philippines
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AeHIN completed its fourth openIMIS T-o-T Workshop in the Philippines at San Beda College of Medicine last February 22. Four faculty members and 14 students joined the workshop.
During the feedback session, the faculty members expressed their interest to use openIMIS as an EMR for an outpatient clinic their university will be establishing by next year. They would also want to explore how they can use openIMIS in their partner health facilities.
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2021 Activities
AeHIN 7th General Meeting
The Asia eHealth Information Network held its seventh AeHIN General Meeting. This year’s theme discussed Strengthening Regional Health Systems Response to COVID-19 focusing on digital health experiences in Asia.
The conference was held virtually for the first time on all Thursdays of January 2021. A total of 328 participants from 42 countries in and outside of the Asian region attended the conference. Attendees were from governments, the academe, non-profit organizations, and the development sector.
During the Opening Ceremony, AeHIN partners shared messages carrying the importance of the Governance, Architecture, Project Management, and Standards and Interoperability Framework to set the mood of the whole conference.
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Mr. Saurav Bhattarai, the representative from the GIZ Headquarters, discussed using standards-based tools and leveraging what is already available to avoid duplication of efforts. He stressed that “we needed digital health tools running on open and standards-based architectures that facilitate interoperability to ensure that we can effectively fight the COVID-19 pandemic.”
On the third day of the conference, a parallel community meeting for the openIMIS Regional Hub Asia (Philippines, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka) was facilitated by AeHIN to gather their ideas on how to best move forward with the community of practice. One of the suggestions was to use a common learning management system for learning openIMIS and to scale up the visibility of openIMIS in policy-oriented discussions in respective countries. Another suggestion is to use openIMIS as a bridge to strengthen the collaboration between the ministry of finance and the ministry of health.
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During the Partner Share session, Saurav Bhattarai also gave updates on GIZ projects. He began by introducing openIMIS and continued to share activities during the past year such as continuing their support to their existing implementations that manage the data of over five million beneficiaries. They have also been working on new implementations and functionalities and expanding openIMIS for other social protection schemes.
The team is also continuing to focus on standards and interoperability. He shared that they have been “mapping openIMIS data model to be FHIR-compliant as well as working on direct interoperability with our other global goods such as DHIS2, OpenMRS, and Bahmni.”
Another important update from the openIMIS Initiative was the openIMIS Catalytic Implementation Fund that intends to “provide support to scheme operators that want to use openIMIS to manage their various social health protection schemes or beyond.”
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AeHIN Hour - openIMIS Webinars 2021
Since 2019, AeHIN and the openIMIS have been working on organizing webinars to help bring information, updates, and discussions about openIMIS between the initiative and its communities of practice in Asia.
The first webinar for 2021 was held on March 9th with Saurav Bhattarai and Konstanz Lange, Advisors at the openIMIS Coordination Desk in GIZ, as speakers.
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In this webinar, they introduced the openIMIS Catalytic Implementation Fund, a “mechanism to allow resources to be made available for getting started with openIMIS implementations.” They also explained the various use cases where it can be applied and provided details on the procedures related to getting access to the fund.
The webinar recording is available at https://youtu.be/4lfv_SlXjwE .
Other openIMIS webinars are available at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN7M3nT7qGnfu329R2YTiuLQV_m4J6vIO.
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openIMIS Enrollment App Testing
In mid-March, the AeHIN secretariat team contributed to testing the openIMIS enrollment application.
AeHIN focused on testing the openIMIS enrollment application via Android. The team used the openIMIS test link in documenting the test results.
The four AeHIN secretariat members were assigned to different parts of the enrollment application to manage the testing faster. Most items took a few minutes to complete.
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Lao PDR Convergence Workshop - Use of openIMIS in Nepal
The Lao PDR Convergence Workshop Meeting was held last March 30-31, 2021. It was conducted to help strengthen the digital health sector of Lao with the help of experts from the Asia eHealth Information Network, development partners, and other government agencies in the country.
The workshop’s expected outcome is the development of a digital health architecture blueprint and a digital health strategy for the Lao PDR health sector with the aim of improving coordination and harmonization among all stakeholders towards a sustainable and interoperable health information system.
AeHIN presented the AeHIN Mind the GAPS (Governance, Architecture, Program Management, and Standards, and Interoperability) Framework, which was the basis of strategy development sessions during the workshop.
Neighboring countries also shared their experiences in the Digital Health Strategy Development session. Dr. Bikash Devkota, Director of Quality Standards and Regulation Division from the Ministry of Health and Population of Nepal shared the country’s digital health journey after their first convergence workshop. One of the lessons they learned is that digitalization is a major component for quality care as it makes service easier and efficient. With this regard, they prioritized digitalization in health.
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Dr. Damodar Basaula, Executive Director Health Insurance Board Nepal discussed how openIMIS played a big part in the country’s health digitalization, especially in managing Nepal’s national health insurance.
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The Health Insurance Scheme of Nepal is a contribution-based Security Health Insurance (SHI) scheme with subsidies for the ultrapoor, poor, and the marginalized. The Nepal Health Insurance Board (HIB) manages it entirely. It is currently implemented in 69 districts and has a total of 3.7 million beneficiaries.
openIMIS supports the management of the core business processes of the Nepal HIB from the enrollment to verification of beneficiaries, claims generation, claims review, and data analysis. At present, there are 375 hospitals using openIMIS to send claims digitally, and there are 7,335 openIMIS users.
The Nepal HIB is part of the openIMIS community of practice since 2016. They share report bugs and issues, request new features, and discuss various technical topics with the community. The openIMIS community has provided them a platform for exchange and has given regular updates, especially new features.
Dr. Basaulaa shared that the use of openIMIS in Nepal expedited the implementation of the Management Information System (MIS) for health insurance in Nepal. They also received support from the community of practice when needed, and the new versions of the openIMIS software are available regularly.
Nepal has learned that they need local capacities to manage and maintain software. Local teams have to lead implementations, and the openIMIS global community is available to support their local efforts.