Background
Countries impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic have seen their health systems overwhelmed by the number of patients requiring care and ensuring adequate availability of supplies like personal protective equipment (PPE), diagnostic equipment like test kits and clinical care equipment like oxygen therapy, ventilators etc. As LMICs in Africa, Asia and Mesoamerica prepare to respond to a similar surge in patient load, they will need to quickly mobilize capacity to effectively manage their supply chains to deliver an uninterrupted supply of commodities. An electronic tool can help with real-time management of these supplies.
To learn more about the importance of public health supply chains in the COVID19 response, listen to the OpenLMIS for COVID19 Webinar
Solution
The Clinton Health Access Initiative (www.clintonhealthaccess.org) (CHAI), VillageReach (www.villagereach.org) and SolDevelo (https://www.soldevelo.com) are working together to create a standalone, rapidly deployable, cloud-based, free-to-use order, stock management and visibility system using OpenLMIS (www.openlmis.org) to achieve end to end visibility and management of COVID-19 commodities.
This system is not meant intended to replace any existing functional electronic logistics information management systems (eLMIS) that countries might be using. Instead, it is offered as a standalone tool specifically for COVID so that countries do not need to mobilise resources to adapt their existing eLMIS to COVID or make changes that may cause disruption or break their routine supply chain tools.
OpenLMIS, a designated Global Good, is an open source, free to use eLMIS that has been deployed at over 11,000 facilities across eight countries in Africa. The global core team (CHAI’s Global Information Systems Team, VillageReach and SolDevelo) will configure has configured OpenLMIS to create a lightweight COVID-specific health facility stock management and requisitioning tool that will require requires minimal training and in-country infrastructure and can be rapidly deployed. With the support of CHAI’s country teams, we will provide web-based trainings to system administrators, master users and other key personnel and adopt the train-the-trainer approach to achieve quick implementation at scale.
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The OpenLMIS COVID Reference System can be accessed here: https://covid-ref.openlmis.org/#!/home Please use the login credentials listed on the Users page for role-based access A brief introductory demo video for OpenLMIS- COVID19 Edition is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHG55mE-rqE&t=16s |
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The MVP system will be configured with standardized workflows for COVID-19 commodity management, to minimize setup and deployment time, and will include support for the following workflows:
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Please follow the links below to see various reference process workflows |
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We are in the process of developing a number of templates to support data collection, document process flows and assist with deployment and post-deployment activities:
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Contact Us!
For technical questions or feedback contact:
Gaurav Bhattacharya (gbhattacharya@clintonhealthaccess.org)
Satish Choudhury (schoudhury@clintonhealthaccess.org)
Wes Brown (wes.brown@villagereach.org)
To express interest or more information about OpenLMIS COVID19- Edition:
Rebecca Alban (rebecca.alban@openlmis.org)
Gaurav Bhattacharya (gbhattacharya@clintonhealthaccess.org)
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Have a question about OpenLMIS? Want to learn more? Visit openlmis.org, or contact info@openlmis.org |