Participants: Saurav Bhattarai
Introduction
Focus for openIMIS coordination desk for next three years:
Strengthened/enhanced community
Enhanced product/widened applicability
Increased implementations (new/extended use cases)
Discussion 16.09.2020
Strengthened/enhanced community
How would you define strengthened/enhanced community? (what characteristics/features)
More inclusive
francophone
product definition (functionality, features)
increased ownership among community members
academia
links to wider digital health agenda
use it as practical (lab) tool?
delivery of openIMIS content regionally/locally: capacity development aspects
sustainability
use of openIMIS as a teaching aid
Testing
COVID-19 : openIMIS as lab management - track vaccine delivery
How to support the inclusion of user organizations? (eg. SSF, HIB)
Effort required to make discussions relevant to more people within the implementers' committee
Different topics
eg. use of insurance data?
Enable ‘non-implementers’ to also take part in discussions
Develop stronger links between users and developers
Feedback on development (analysis phase)
mocks
iterative developments
Testing
How would you define ‘strengthened/enhanced community! when linking this objective also to the two other objectives – enhanced product and increased implementations?
Increased implementations
How can local schemes (like BEPHA) benefit from the openIMIS community of practice?
How can new schemes get support? what support?
Need for financial/technical support to implement the tool ‘in the field’
Community to facilitate: What needs to be in the master-version vs stay in country specific implementations?
Develop skills locally (regionally?) - act as a support structure for the various implementations
What can you do to strengthen/enhance the community?
AeHIN
AeHIN hour
Disseminating info: mailing lists, social media accounts
Regional level capacity building programme
Regional instances
demos
Bring in medical student networks from AeHIN to bring in the medical knowledge
Knowledge/experiences from country implementations.
With regards to the upcoming 5th anniversary (in 2021) what community features/activities would you highlight (to appeal to others)?
Finalize the architecture transition
Testimonial: what does the new architecture offer for implementers/users?
Virtual conference - plenaries to demonstrate various use cases; links with government agencies