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Ms. Sovathana Suong will be presenting her second webinar in April 2022.
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openIMIS Webinar on a Study on Health Insurance Information Management in the Private Health Insurance Industry of Sri Lanka
Last February 22, Dr. Chamika Senanayake, lead of the openIMIS country hub in Sri Lanka, presented their study on health insurance in Sri Lanka. In the webinar, he presented their study which identified the life insurance and health insurance information management systems of Sri Lanka and their patterns of claims and utilization, evaluated the effects of health insurance data collection, processing, exchanging by use of conventional electronic-health insurance management systems, and explored the implications of data protection laws towards patient information safety while interacting with health insurance information systems.
The link to the recording will be made available once the paper of Dr. Chamika’s team has been published.
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openIMIS Webinar - OpenIMIS: Case Study and its Implementation Status in Nepal
On March 8, two engineering students from the class of Dr. Rabindra namely Supriya Khadka and Rohan Chhetry presented their case study which includes the technicalities in which OpenIMIS was built. They talked about the implementation of OpenIMIS in Nepal, and how it can be implemented in the Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus, Tribhuvan University, Nepal.
Interesting information were shared by the students and opened opportunities for engagement with the students. The webinar recording may be accessed at https://youtu.be/vsKNRnNDcq4 .
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openIMIS Webinar - Why and How Thailand became a SNOMED CT Member Country
Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin, Chair of the Asia eHealth Information Network, shared why and how Thailand became a SNOMED CT member country.
In the webinar, he shared what the Thai Health Information Standard Development Center (THIS) has learned, researched, pursued, and endured to introduce SNOMED CT to the health IT and digital health community in Thailand, and the plan to adopt and implement SNOMED CT in Thailand for both administrative information systems (Thai DRG and health insurance information system e.g., OpenIMIS) and clinical care information system.
View the recording here: https://youtu.be/1tP-ad2Lnl4
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openIMIS Webinar - Social Protection Focusing on HEF Implementation in Cambodia
On April 5, 2022, Dr. Chhun Eang Ros, Deputy Director of the Payment Certification Agency (PCA) at the Ministry of Health Cambodia presented the specific roles of Patient Management and Registration System at relevant stakeholders at each level of Health Equity Fund Implementation, its process and coverage, and how it is being expanded nationwide.
The webinar recording may be viewed at https://youtu.be/gGJKt_9ZEL0
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Open Source Health Information Systems: Opportunities and Challenges (Part 1)
In this session, Dr. Luis Ruiz talked about the aspects related to the design and development of open-source health IT infrastructures that guarantee the scalability and availability of data for health delivery, research, and policy making. Aspects such data ownership, data accessibility, and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles were covered. The webinar also focused on how these aspects should be approached at procurement and development stages from a free open-source software (FOSS) perspective.
To view the recording, please visit https://youtu.be/9tR7WUjDx7Q .
The second part of the webinar will be held on May 13 at 3 PM Manila time.
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DRG Webinar Series 2022
The webinar series aims at building up knowledge and learning experiences to participants from countries that want to pursue the universal health coverage policy with payment to acute inpatient care with diagnosis related group tools.
The core course materials target the whole range of stakeholders from policy levels to operational levels.
Sub-modules segmentally target individual groups from researchers and developers of the tools; hospitals; funders; and academic professional bodies such as health care accreditation assessors and medical associations and health IT association.
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Webinar recordings:
April 13, 2022 - Module 1: The core understandings on DRG and health financing policy (DRG for ALL)
May 4, 2022 - Module 2: The story of the Thai DRG development
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openIMIS eLearning Course Launch
On May 6, the openIMIS eLearning Course was launched through a webinar.
In the first part of the session, Konstanze Lang provided a short introduction to the openIMIS initiative, the rationale behind, an overview on use cases and countries where openIMIS is implemented as well as on the community. It was followed by Daniella Majakari who gave the the introduction to the the new openIMIS e-Learning course, including the target audience, the learning objectives and different modules, and a short demo on how to navigate the course.
To check the webinar recording, visit https://youtu.be/jty7YXTX-C4
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