October 3, 2018 Global Digital Health Network Meeting

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dc.description.abstractGoing further together this was spirit of the recent Global Digital Health Network meeting which focused on the role of communities of practice CoP in achieving digital health objectives Hosted by PATH on October 3 2018 the meeting included in person and virtual participants in a lively 90 minute webinar including discussion Presenters shared lessons learned best practices and future visions for different CoP operating in the digital health space Kicking off the meeting Amanda BenDor from PATH and Carl Fourie from Jembi had a coffee style chat about the inaugural OpenHIE meeting in Arusha Tanzania The week long event included an unconferencing approach that gave participants a say in shaping the agenda on site and sharing issues most pressing to them The meeting also featured site visits to health facilities in the area to see interoperability in action and a HacKonectALearnThon that allowed participants to look under hood of the technologies and explore facilitation of interoperability You can read more reflections about the OpenHIE meeting in a recent blog post here From OpenLMIS we heard from Rebecca Alban at Village Reach about best practices and challenges in shaping a community comprised of donors implementers and technology partners around open source logistics management information systems From dedicating time and resources to translation member on boarding and in person meetings to ensure member buy in and as a result community benefit to holding monthly donor meetings to align expectations and next steps OpenLMIS is working through many of the challenges we face in public health both on and off line The final presenter was Paul Biondich from Regenstrief Institute Understanding that health is an information business OpenMRS members work to improve health care delivery in resource constrained environments through improvements in medical records Given the range of settings in which healthcare is delivered this can vary quite a bit from one setting to another and requires flexible solutions to meet the needs OpenMRS serves as a platform for record systems but members have worked to have it behave more like an application via distributions or pre packaged versions that work for different healthcare cases This flexibility helps address a range of use cases including a fully integrated hospital information system to and EMR with country specific MOH requirements One of the most buzzed about topics from the day was a slide that detailed the cost savings in R D and development generated from the active OpenMRS community At the heart of each of these CoPs are the dedicated community members who share their time and expertise to grow digital health global public goods Safeguarding these investments and sharing across these platforms will need to be a priority in order for these global goods to meet the needs of the growing number of countries investing in digital health solutions
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dc.subjectMonthly Meeting Presentations
dc.subjectMonthly Meeting Presentations
dc.subjectMonthly Meeting Presentations
dc.subjectMonthly Meeting Presentations
dc.subjectOpenHIE
dc.subjectOpenLMIS
dc.subjectDigital Communities
dc.subjectOpenMRS
dc.titleOctober 3, 2018 Global Digital Health Network Meetingen
dcterms.abstractGoing further together this was spirit of the recent Global Digital Health Network meeting which focused on the role of communities of practice CoP in achieving digital health objectives Hosted by PATH on October 3 2018 the meeting included in person and virtual participants in a lively 90 minute webinar including discussion Presenters shared lessons learned best practices and future visions for different CoP operating in the digital health space Kicking off the meeting Amanda BenDor from PATH and Carl Fourie from Jembi had a coffee style chat about the inaugural OpenHIE meeting in Arusha Tanzania The week long event included an unconferencing approach that gave participants a say in shaping the agenda on site and sharing issues most pressing to them The meeting also featured site visits to health facilities in the area to see interoperability in action and a HacKonectALearnThon that allowed participants to look under hood of the technologies and explore facilitation of interoperability You can read more reflections about the OpenHIE meeting in a recent blog post here From OpenLMIS we heard from Rebecca Alban at Village Reach about best practices and challenges in shaping a community comprised of donors implementers and technology partners around open source logistics management information systems From dedicating time and resources to translation member on boarding and in person meetings to ensure member buy in and as a result community benefit to holding monthly donor meetings to align expectations and next steps OpenLMIS is working through many of the challenges we face in public health both on and off line The final presenter was Paul Biondich from Regenstrief Institute Understanding that health is an information business OpenMRS members work to improve health care delivery in resource constrained environments through improvements in medical records Given the range of settings in which healthcare is delivered this can vary quite a bit from one setting to another and requires flexible solutions to meet the needs OpenMRS serves as a platform for record systems but members have worked to have it behave more like an application via distributions or pre packaged versions that work for different healthcare cases This flexibility helps address a range of use cases including a fully integrated hospital information system to and EMR with country specific MOH requirements One of the most buzzed about topics from the day was a slide that detailed the cost savings in R D and development generated from the active OpenMRS community At the heart of each of these CoPs are the dedicated community members who share their time and expertise to grow digital health global public goods Safeguarding these investments and sharing across these platforms will need to be a priority in order for these global goods to meet the needs of the growing number of countries investing in digital health solutions
dcterms.subjectMonthly Meeting Presentations
dcterms.subjectMonthly Meeting Presentations
dcterms.subjectMonthly Meeting Presentations
dcterms.subjectMonthly Meeting Presentations
dcterms.subjectOpenHIE
dcterms.subjectOpenLMIS
dcterms.subjectDigital Communities
dcterms.subjectOpenMRS
dcterms.titleOctober 3, 2018 Global Digital Health Network Meetingen
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