Overview

Date: 2024-12-12 - 10:00 am (UTC)

Room: MS-Teams (and this will remain a once-in-a-liftime exception!)

Objective: Preview of the planned activities for 2025 / 2026

Participants: (kindly only add your own names, not those of other participants)

• GIZ

  • @Uwe Wahser

  • @Konstanze Lang

• OPM

• m4h, y-Note, tinker-tech

• Swiss TPH

  • @Dragos Dobre

• WHO

• medic mobile

  • @Derick Lung'aho

• HELINA

• KeHIA

  • @Sylvia Mwelu

Agenda:

Minutes

openIMIS Roadmap 2025 / 2026

OpenIMIS has evolved into a comprehensive digital public good supporting both health insurance and social protection implementations. Current deployment spans 12 countries with 25 million beneficiaries. The October 2024 CORE-MIS migration milestone integrated essential social protection functionalities. New quality assurance mechanisms include solution building and sandboxing capabilities. The initiative operates through structured committees and regional knowledge hubs, ensuring sustainable community-driven development.

Key Points:Overview of OpenIMIS as a digital public good for social protection processes

• Current implementation in 12 countries with approximately 25 million covered beneficiaries

• Recent completion of CORE-MIS migration project in October 2024

• Introduction of new application QA layer through solution building and sandboxing contracts

Functional Requirements SR / IBR

Presenters: Thomas & Jeris, OPM

Key Findings:

• Mapped 102 detailed functional requirements across social registry and integrated beneficiary registry systems

• Social Registry: 52 requirements across 7 functional areas

• Integrated Beneficiary Registry: 50 requirements across 8 functional areas

• Identified four core strengths in OpenIMIS for registry development:

  • Analytics and reporting capabilities

  • Multi-program support

  • Beneficiary management

  • Strong API foundation

Interoperability Sandbox

Presenter: Maxime

The sandbox initiative establishes a controlled environment for testing integration scenarios across health financing and social protection domains. Three work packages encompass digital goods prioritization, environment development, and implementation automation. Technical objectives include Open HIE and DCI framework compatibility, synthetic data generation, and automated deployment processes. Platform will demonstrate interoperability scenarios and standardize integration approaches across the OpenIMIS ecosystem.

Project Scope:

• Identification and prioritization of digital public goods for interoperability

• Development of sandbox environment for health financing and social protection scenarios

• Implementation of Open HIE and DCI framework compatibility

• Focus on code changes, synthetic data generation, and sandbox automation

Solution Building

Presenter: Dragos, Swiss TPH

Solution Packages Identified:

• Social Health Insurance with claiming

• AI-based claim categorization

• CORE-MIS solution package

• Product catalog

• Central patient registry

• Universal dynamic social registry

• Voucher program management

Joint Discussion

• lot of complementarity with the work of medic mobile (data collection on households & members)

• link up with SILAB activities in Nepal would be of interest

• suggestion from interviewees during the specification gathering by OPM: keep development closely to what is demanded from the field

  • hen and egg problem, will try to balance low hanging fruits

Action Items

1. Development teams to begin work on prioritized solution packages

2. Review and provide feedback on registry requirements via wiki

3. Establish regular weekly deep dive calls for project coordination

4. Set up agile project management structure in Jira

Next Steps

• Regular developer calls scheduled for Thursday mornings

• Monthly project review sessions ("Gumzo")

• Documentation to be maintained on wiki page

• Project teams to coordinate on integration points between workstreams

• We’ll set up weekly project deep dive calls for the solution building & sandbox projects. These will be open to the community.

Additional Notes

• All presentations and recordings will be made available on the wiki

• Community members invited to join OpenIMIS developer forum for future communications

• Next regular deep dive session to be scheduled for January 2024

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