During the Bhela, the implementers’ committee of openIMIS would like to present broad updates to various work packages currently being undertaken by the community and to discuss other topics of interest to the openIMIS and the broader health and social protection community. 

Co-ordinates

Date: 31.01.2024

Time: 10.00 AM Central European Time (CET)

Room: Jitsi Meet - (jitsi claims to support Chrome, Chromium & MS Edge and Firefox browsers only.  You might also want to try the jitsi app)

Participants: (kindly only add yourself, not others):

• @Saurav Bhattarai @Nirmal Dhakal @Kristin Chloe Pascual

Schedule

Notes

• Nepal Implementation Update

  • Many changes to HIB procedures

  • Re-introduction of co-payment in scheme

    • Implications on openIMIS

    • Only for certain type of hospitals (100 bedded and above)

    • Restricted to beneficiary types (e.g. subsidised)

  • Revising of benefit package

    • Only data updates

  • Actuarial analysis to be conducted. GIZ Nepal to support.

    • Expert pool contracted with GIZ to provide support

    • Call next bhela ?

  • Discussions: third-party claims review

  • Migration to modular version from legacy - 2 months remaining.

    • Current functionalities migrated

    • Testing

    • Future: new features from feature request workshop

  • DHIS2 for data analysis

    • dashboard

  • Local contract for post-migration

  • GIZ Nepal’s support

    • Social Health Insurance

    • Digitalization

  • Internal review from HIB

    • issues/feature requests to be put in Jira

• Malawi implementation updates/Pricing registry

  • Service level agreement (SLA) between Malawi MoH and CHAM

  • openIMIS to be used to manage SLA processes

  • Local consultant: AppFarm to develop the customizations

    • Most functionality has been customized

    • Testing ongoing

    • handover documentation being developed.

  • Deployment remaining

  • Pricing registry

    • Requirements gathering phase

      • Collection of different rates for services/items to be maintained

      • Users

        • Hospitals

        • Insurance

        • Public?

    • Client registry in Malawi - locally created: Demographic Data Exchange. Developed in Ruby

    • Facility registry in Malawi - locally created: https://zipatala.health.gov.mw/

    • OpenHIE Link - Product catalog

      • Next architecture call can be a point to start discussion

• AeHIN - Asia Regional Hub

  • 30.01 - SORMAS webinar

  • 01.02 - OHIE - look into linkages between SORMAS and openIMIS ?

• AOB

  • Migration checklist: Modular Migration: Open Issues

    • Restart calls - after Thursday developer deep dives

  • Performance issues

    • Cameroon : 2M + beneficiaries

    • Need to restart calls?

    •