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Invite Lao IT staff to join the AeHIN community/mailing list
Currently 1 IT specialist working with NHIB
Currently around 5 IT staff working with Health Information Division, MOH Lao
MOH departments to meet again for the development of Lao's Digital Health Strategy (for the next five years); convergence workshop report to be published soon
openIMIS can provide support through the following channels:
Through networking facilitated by AeHIN: support discussions in defining the functionalities required by NHIB for their health insurance management system
Through knowledge resources: openIMIS wiki page, openIMIS videos
Through the openIMIS implementation catalytic fund: technical assistance for implementation including customization, user training, etc.; more details are available here
Through ILO
Suggested next steps based on the meeting:
At the country level, the Lao team defines system requirements for health insurance management
At the regional level, AeHIN facilitates inter-country discussion in defining minimum requirements for a generic health insurance information system
Meeting with Dr. Alvin and Saurav to discuss refined system requirements (wait for further details from NHIB)
openIMIS demo
Meet as a group on how to move forward
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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
May 25, 2022 - Module 3: The mechanisms of DRG development
June 1, 2022 - Module 4: Hospitals in the DRG Environment
June 15, 2022 -To follow
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openIMIS eLearning Course Launch
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To check the webinar recording, visit https://youtu.be/jty7YXTX-C4
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As of June 15, 2022, the openIMIS eLearning Course titled “Introduction to openIMIS” has 200 participants.
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FOSS Webinars 2022
Dr. Luis Marco Ruiz, Chair of the openEHR Education Program, presented a two-part webinar about opportunities and challenges in Open Source Health Information Systems for governments and software implementers on April 8 and May 13. Forty-one attendees participated in the first webinar and 81 attendees The first webinar was attended 41 attendees joined the second webinar.
Both webinars covered 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, as well as data ownership, data accessibility, and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles. The webinar focused on how these aspects should be approached at procurement and development stages from a free open-source software (FOSS) perspective.
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On June 10, Mr. Uwe Wahser from GIZ and Dr. Oliver Hummel from the University of Mannheim gave presentations on FOSS and Academia. Dr. Christoph Geiss, also from the University of Mannheim, joined the Q&A portion. A total of 24 participants attended the session.
Documentation and materials from the session may be accessed here.
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Webinar recordings:
Open Source Health Information Systems: Opportunities and Challenges (for Governments)
Open Source Health Information Systems: Opportunities and Challenges (for Software Implementers)
FOSS and Academia: How to integrate openIMIS in your Curriculum
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openIMIS DRG Datathon 2022
The Center for Applied Research and Development (CARD) of the Institute of Engineering at Tribhuvan University, with support from GIZ and the Asia eHealth Information Network, organized the openIMIS-DRG Datathon held on June 3-5.
A two-hour orientation was held on the first day of the datathon. Dragos Dobre and Eric Darchis gave an introduction to openIMIS and data models, and Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin, Chair of the Asia eHealth Information Network gave an introduction to DRGs and the Thai Data Model.
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Thirteen out of the 14 participating teams successfully finished and submitted their output.
On June 6, virtual badges were awarded to the students via Badgr. An awarding ceremony will be held on June 19.
Images are by Center for Applied Research and Development (CARD), Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University. Retrieved from https://card.ioe.edu.np/datathon-orientation-session-jun-3rd-2022/.
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openIMIS Guest Lecture from Nepal
Mr. Nirmal Dhakal and Mr. Purushottam Sapkit gave a guest lecture to engineering students of the Institute of Engineering at Tribhuvan University on May 23, 2022. They gave a brief overview of openIMIS and Digital Health in Nepal. The students were mainly interested in status configuration, installation, as well as the existing countries using openIMIS and what they can learn from them.
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Upcoming openIMIS Webinars:
June 15 - Module 5: DRG and health systems objectives
June 22 - openIMIS in Sri Lanka (2nd webinar)
June 24 - Gap Analysis