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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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To understand the needs and perspectives of stakeholders in the ecosystem, AeHIN hosted a Focus Group Discussion on Free and Open Source Software for Healthcare last 25 August 2021 at 5:00-6:00 PM GMT+8. AeHIN administered real-time questionnaires (via Mentimeter.com) complemented with open discussion to surface the participants’ perceived benefits and risks of adopting FOSS like openIMIS.
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To view the recording, please visit https://youtu.be/R2ZuTjsFLyE .
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FOSS Webinars 2022
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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)
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