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Rejoignez-nous! La communauté OpenLMIS organise un webinar en français le 24 mai à 13h00 UTC (6h PST) pour présenter et discuter des dernières fonctionnalités d'OpenLMIS.

Réjoignez l'appel sur Zoom en utilisant ce lien: https://zoom.us/j/128422371 

Please join the OpenLMIS Community for a webinar presenting the latest features in the OpenLMIS 3.3 release. The webinar will feature live demos of integrations with OpenSRP and a remote temperature monitoring platform.

Presenters include:

• Mary Jo Kochendorfer, OpenLMIS Product Manager

• Tenly Snow, OpenLMIS Community Manager

• Craig Appl, Ona Health Technical Lead

• Martin Lukac, Nexleaf Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Webinar details

Date: Thursday, May 10

Time: 6 AM PDT / 13h00 UTC

Register in advance for the webinar: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/ee021bd743d5fd0adc2040ba88984b7b

After registering you will receive a call-in number.

Got three minutes? Watch this quick video on how OpenLMIS is making a difference in health commodity and immunization supply chains globally. Bring a tissue, you may have a tear in your eye by the end...

Please join the OpenLMIS Community on Monday, December 18 at 3 PM PST for a webinar featuring Tupaia, an innovative health resource and supply chain mapping tool improving health outcomes in the Asia Pacific region.

Learn more about Tupaia by visiting their website, https://tupaia.org/, where you can play with the software!

Tupaia creators Edwin Monk-Fromont and Michael Nunan will present a live demo of the software, architecture details, and future extensions and uses of the tool during their presentation. Please be sure to join the Zoom call from yourPC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android in order to view the demo.

Webinar call-in details below.

Topic: Tupaia Demo for OpenLMIS
Time: Dec 18, 2017 3:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Thanks to all who joined the public webinar this morning on the latest developments in the OpenLMIS vaccine module. A recording of the webinar and the presentation slide deck are available below. 

Watch the webinar

Presentation Slide Deck

Join the OpenLMIS team on November 30 at 8 am PST for a webinar discussing the latest developments in the vaccine module. 

Please register in advance for the call by visiting the following link:

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Nov 30, 2017 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/9b1a18dcc87534aec5b9141539e44ee6

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

OpenLMIS is a community dedicated to collective impact. We are always learning and listening for new ideas. We organize user-centered design workshops, talk with global leaders, and incorporate best-in-class technologies to meet the needs of global health supply chains. The most recent TechNet-21 Conference provided another opportunity to hear more from our partners in the immunization sector.

This conference brought together global leaders to find solutions to pressing immunization supply chain problems – getting vaccines to the right people at the right time and ensuring vaccines arrive and stay in the right condition. Conference participants presented innovative solutions that address these challenges and organizations like Gavi and WHO renewed their commitment to the principles of data for management (D4M). The OpenLMIS community was well represented both in presentations and panels, and we listened throughout the conference to ensure that OpenLMIS responds to real needs. Here are just a few of our takeaways:

Without good digitized data, there is no management

Throughout the conference, participants talked about guidance on interpreting data, predictive analysis, and forecasting - all ways of utilizing data for management of the vaccine supply chain. The essential point here, however, is without digitized data, none of this is possible. Without a reliable electronic system to capture, aggregate, and disseminate data, program managers will continue to struggle with sluggish data availability and potentially limiting the impact of investments in the immunization supply chain.

Strong advocacy helps build a strong system

Despite major advancements there is still a need for strong advocacy at the country level to raise awareness of the quality and source of data in electronic systems. In some countries, program managers still believe that data from paper-based systems is more reliable than data from an electronic system, or are unclear about the source and content of the data. By advocating and communicating about the type of data available in an electronic system, ministries, partners, and program managers can increase the uptake and effectiveness of data for management.

Data warehousing provides a strong foundation

At the conference, participants talked frequently about predictive analyses - the ability to utilize data to make better decisions and to address obstacles before they become problems. OpenLMIS recognizes that, while there is strong appetite for predictive analyses, none of it is possible without data being digitized and collected in a systematic way. OpenLMIS is currently exploring this idea of data warehousing to ensure that system users have access to the data they need to evaluate, predict, visualize, and act.

Business as usual isn’t good enough

OpenLMIS thinks outside the box. The initiative is made up of a community of experts who truly listen and who collaborate to build the best product possible, and we are listening to the needs of immunization supply chain managers and investors.

This focus on listening is one of the reasons OpenLMIS was selected by audience members as one of the top three most innovative pitches at the TechNet PitchFest. You can watch the OpenLMIS pitch as well as an additional pitch on the Tanzania VIMS system – a system built on the OpenLMIS platform.

OpenLMIS presented at four different events during TechNet, touching on some of the key messages of the conference including the need for reliable electronic systems for data collection and management and the benefits of collective impact. Outside of the PitchFest, OpenLMIS presented vaccine-specific features currently under development, demonstrated the all-new Cold Chain Equipment and Stock Management functionality at an Innovations Cafe, and presented on the Mozambique deployment of OpenLMIS, (SELV), and the Tanzania deployment (VIMS). New partnerships, renewed connections, and a fresh take on old challenges will propel OpenLMIS forward as we continue building version 3 and more robust vaccine functionality.

SAVE THE DATE: Join us for a webinar on November 30, 2017, when OpenLMIS will present the latest software developments for vaccine management. Immunization supply chain stakeholders and anyone interested in learning more about the OpenLMIS community, the vaccine module, and our commitment to incorporating user input and best practices are invited to join. Free and open to the public, webinar details forthcoming. Check openlmis.org or the OpenLMIS wiki for more details.

The OpenLMIS Initiative’s mission is to make powerful LMIS software available in low-resource environments – providing high-quality logistics management to improve health commodity distribution in low- and middle-income countries.
OpenLMIS increases data visibility, helping supply chain managers identify and respond to commodity needs, particularly at health facilities where lack of data significantly impacts the availability of key medicines and vaccines.

Learn more at openlmis.org, or by writing to info@openlmis.org

Want to get involved?
CONTACT THE COMMUNITY MANAGER

OpenLMIS is at the 15th Tech-Net 21 Conference in Portugal this week presenting work on the all-new vaccine features! See our poster for the project gallery and stay connected on Twitter for updates on presentations and panels. 

The OpenLMIS community has the pleasure to announce the milestone release of OpenLMIS version 3.2. In line with the version 3 series, 3.2 includes new features in stock management, new administrative screens, targeted performance improvements and a beta version of the Cold Chain Equipment (CCE) service. It also contains contributions from the Malawi implementation, a national implementation that is now live on OpenLMIS version 3.

3.2 represents the first milestone towards the Vaccines MVP feature set and after 3.2.0, there are further planned milestone releases and patch releases that will add more features to support Vaccine/EPI programs.

 These enhancements will continue development toward making OpenLMIS a full-featured electronic logistics management information system. Please reference the Living Product Roadmap for the upcoming release priorities. Patch releases will continue to include bug fixes, performance improvements, and pull requests are welcomed.

New Features 

• Stock Management: Added a notification and new support for recording vaccine vial monitor (VVM) status
• Administrative Screens: View supply lines, geographic zones, requisition groups, and program settings
• Performance: Targeted improvements were made based on the first version 3 implementer’s usage and results. Improvements were made in server response times which impacts load time and memory utilization. In addition, new tooling was introduced to provide the ability to track performance improvements and bottlenecks
• Cold Chain Equipment (CCE) service (Beta): Includes support to upload a catalog of cold chain equipment, add equipment inventory (from the catalog) to facilities, and manually update the functional status of that equipment. Review the wiki for details on the upcoming features

A full list of features, APIs, services, and tickets can be found in the 3.2.0 Release Notes.

The OpenLMIS Initiative’s mission is to make powerful LMIS software available in low-resource environments – providing high-quality logistics management to improve health commodity distribution in low- and middle-income countries. OpenLMIS increases data visibility, helping supply chain managers identify and respond to commodity needs, particularly at health facilities where lack of data significantly impacts the availability of key medicines and vaccines.

Learn more at openlmis.org, or by writing to info@openlmis.org

Want to get involved?

CONTACT THE COMMUNITY MANAGER

OpenLMIS Community Manager Tenly Snow (Deactivated) and OpenLMIS Product Manager Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated) presented the OpenLMIS version 3 series development and open source standards at the OpenHIE August Community Call. 

View the slide deck that was presented on the call (link also available in the call notes). 

Many thanks to Michelle, Jamie, Paul and others at the OpenHIE Initiative for inviting OpenLMIS to join the OpenHIE Community Call. We look forward to continued collaboration and to carrying these discussions forward! 

Read the latest OpenLMIS newsletter for updates on version 3 series software development, conferences, and community events:

http://mailchi.mp/a1701fee16a6/openlmis-news-updates

View the OpenLMIS Version 3 - Stock Management demo video on YouTube! 

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The OpenLMIS community has the pleasure to announce the 3.1 milestone release. In line with the version 3 series, 3.1 includes the release of entirely new features in OpenLMIS, including key stock management transactions, tracking lots, and spatial data support, as well as more administrative screens.

Stock Management

A highly requested feature for OpenLMIS, the all-new stock managementservice is a major milestone in the version 3 series. It is a culmination of many months of planning, discussion, and development, and represents a step towards the eventual achievement of a full-feature electronic LMIS that ministries of health and other organizations can utilize to manage their supply chains across programs. The 3.1 version is a first release of stock management transactions and we will continue to iterate on the initial set of features to support vaccines and make general improvements as the community suggests new features. The full vaccine feature set is planned for release late 2017.

Stock Management Features

• View and print individual stock cards or a summary of all stock on hand
• Perform a Physical Inventory (or Stock Count or Stock Take) to verify the electronic inventory records against physical stock quantities
• Enter a Receipt of stock received at a facility
• Issue (or transfer stock) from a facility
• Record an Adjustment, either an increase or decrease, in stock levels due to a configured set of reasons, which may include stock discarded/wasted due to expiry, damage, or an increase due to third party donations

Full details on the 3.1 release can be found in the Release Notes on the OpenLMIS Wiki

Contributions Back to Core
In addition to the feature set of version 3.1 developed by the core team, the community is also proud to announce that the first country to implement the OpenLMIS version 3 series has already begun contributing back features for re-use by other implementers!

The first implementer has contributed back many enhancements and modifications to the core code base. Their enhancements and extensions of the core code have been built in modules, ensuring both that the code will not be forked, and that they will be able to take advantage of upgrades and new releases without affecting their existing functionality.

By contributing back features to the core code, any country, project, or NGO that implements OpenLMIS in the future can take advantage of these enhancements, increasing the shared benefit of the OpenLMIS initiative.

Key Feature Contribution Highlight
Bulk Reference Data Upload – This first deployment on version 3 has contributed a tool to upload reference data in bulk via csv files. This new feature will assist other implementers in configuring the system through csv uploads.

We are excited to hear your feedback and learn from the global health community! Please don’t hesitate to reach out to share your comments and new feature suggestions.

The OpenLMIS Initiative’s mission is to make powerful LMIS software available in low-resource environments – providing high-quality logistics management to improve health commodity distribution in low- and middle-income countries. OpenLMIS increases data visibility, helping supply chain managers identify and respond to commodity needs, particularly at health facilities where lack of data significantly impacts the availability of key medicines and vaccines.

Learn more at openlmis.org, or by writing to info@openlmis.org

Want to get involved?

Contact the Community Manager 

The OpenLMIS Community is pleased to announce the beta release of OpenLMIS 3.0!

The initial offering to come out of the re-architecture effort for OpenLMIS, 3.0 Beta contains one slice of functionality, Requisitions, based on an all-new micro-service architecture. This release is the first to utilize the new architecture and is a strong step in the direction of “shared investment, shared benefit” that is the primary mission of the OpenLMIS Community. 3.0 Beta is a proof-of-concept for this architecture and is not a feature-complete release. It does not contain every feature that the eventual 3.0 OpenLMIS stable release will, and further features will be added to the system as we work toward the full 3.0 release scheduled for the end of February, 2017.

Please reference the Living Product Roadmap for the high-level estimated release schedule through version 3.3, and read the 3.0 Beta Release Notes for further details. Visit the OpenLMIS GitHub page to view the 3.0 Beta code repository.

Background

Early contributions to OpenLMIS by PATH, USAID, Rockefeller Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities, JSI, ThoughtWorks and others first helped shape the product and define its original code base (v.0.9) for deployments in Tanzania and Zambia in late 2013 under the name “eLMIS.” In 2015, eLMIS was also deployed in Cote D’Ivoire, and OpenLMIS software development continued with the v1.0 release, which was deployed by VillageReach to manage vaccine distribution in Mozambique and Benin.

As new installations of OpenLMIS were developed and deployed, a key challenge was the inability to easily extend the code base, which resulted in a “code fork” between the early implementations and the later v1.0 implementations. In an effort to address the fork the community agreed to begin working toward a common master branch, and at the September 2015 all-community meeting, the community also agreed that a single, “core” code line was required. This effort to re-work the OpenLMIS code is referred to as the "Re-Architecture" of OpenLMIS.

VillageReach and partners have worked to make the re-architecture process as transparent as possible through clear documentation available on the OpenLMIS Wiki. The OpenLMIS Re-Architecture Acceleration Brief outlines the plan and approach for this effort, the high level architecture is captured in the Architecture Overview (v3), and the Re-Architecture Concept Note provides a detailed, clear explanation of the re-architecture plan and approaches. 

Key Features

OpenLMIS 3.0 is built with an all-new architecture that better supports customizations and extensions. The goal is to enable multiple OpenLMIS implementations in different countries while still sharing one global, open source codebase. 3.0 Beta may look similar to version 2, but under the hood the architecture and technology are a leap forward.

Specifically, the key goals of the 3.0 Beta are to demonstrate:

• New micro-services architecture

• Ability to support extensions

• Basic feature set within requisitioning