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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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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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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 implementing openIMIS and what they can learn from them.
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openIMIS-DRG Datathon 2022
The Center for Applied Research and Development (CARD) of the Institute of Engineering at Tribhuvan University, in collaboration with the openIMIS initiative, Standards and Interoperability Lab Thailand (SIL-TH), and the Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN), organized the openIMIS-DRG Datathon held on June 3-5.
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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/, https://card.
Upcoming openIMIS Webinars:
June 15 - Module 5: DRG and health systems objectives
June 22 - openIMIS in Sri Lanka (2nd webinar)
June 24 - Gap Analysisioe.edu.np/datathon-award-ceremony-jul-4th-2022/.
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openIMIS-DRG Datathon Awarding Ceremony 2022
On July 4, an awarding ceremony was held at Pulchowk Campus to recognize the students who won the openIMIS-DRG Datathon held from June 3 to 5, 2022.
The criteria used to score the performance and output of the groups were based on accuracy and speed. The three winning teams namely Cartographers, Hufflepuff, and Trinity were awarded with certificates and prize money from the Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus, Tribhuvan University.
Prof. Sangeeta Singh, Director of CARD-IOE; Prof. Shashidhar Ram Joshi, Dean of IOE; and Dr. Basanta Joshi, Deputy Director of CARD-IOE were present in the awarding ceremony, while Dr. Alvin Marcelo, Executive Director of AeHIN, joined the awarding virtually via Zoom.
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Prof. Basanta Joshi shared the results of the Datathon and Gaps Analysis in openIMIS and the Thai Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) through a webinar.
A copy of the Gaps Analysis report written by Prof. Basanta Joshi may also be found here.