Participants: Saurav Bhattarai

Introduction

Focus for openIMIS coordination desk for next three years:

1. Strengthened/enhanced community

2. Enhanced product/widened applicability

3. Increased implementations (new/extended use cases)

Discussion 16.09.2020

Strengthened/enhanced community

1. 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