Date May 26, 2021

OpenLMIS participants:  Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed), Dean Tebbutt, Wesley Brown, Benn Grubb (tech lead in East Asia)- works on DICE. 

(not present but sharing with Trevor Lambiotte as an FYI)

Background:

Support Digital Health Center of Excellence- starting work with this re: COVID but hopefully want to expand the scope too

Tasked w/ putting together series of webinars w/ Gavi LMIS providers over the next few weeks

Last year Ben put together a procurement plan to guide country offices for eLMIS; how do you write a ToR, evaluate them, etc. Used Gavi/Global Fund materials; this is a pre-curser to getting a global LTA in place to be able to fast-track 

UN agencies tend to piggy pack LTAs so this one will hopefully be not as painful this time around

Active in the Map & Match project where they will be country briefs

Webinar details/plans:

• digital health center of excellence, will be hosting the webinar series; have DICE speakers; and opening the audience up to WHO
• want to run 2 of these; 1) for asia/Africa region 2) another for the Americas
  • will have another facilitator supporting
  • allocate about 1 hour, keep intros minimum;
  • they are developing a series of questions for us to address
  • leave 15-20 min for facilitated Q&A at the end; that gives us about 35 minutes
  • usually 60-100+ participants 
  • demo component? 
  • COVID focus? yes- trying to balance between colleagues who are desperate to get vaccines out and solve immediate value
    • talk about timelines SaaS vs on prem; 
  • audience level of knowledge: tech focal points are primary audience; supply colleauges; most in asia dont know OpenLMIS well; variable knowledge; limited knowledge of the product specifically but are digital health people so understand concepts
• Talking to 34 countries in the region; EAP Region is less consistent where USAID has had a big influence
  • only a few countries in this region have DHIS2
  • hard to get the digital public good conversation; hard to have pre-existing integrations available
  • would be good to talk about integrations that we have had w/ other govt systems; and 
  • Are countries more bespoke or is there HIE systems in place? A few countries have decent eHealth strategies and HIE ; they did a recent series of country case studies
  • active HISP in Bangladesh; Malaysia and Thailand are building their own bespoke systems; some countries have capacity and wealth to do things themselves; authoritarian govts want to build things themselves and don't want to share data
• Points to cover in the webinar:
  • digital health enabling environment; what is there beyond the tool; frame this via possible value added features; opens a new world of capabilities
  • Enterprise Support for long-term support as a subscription model
  • How does the transition happen from COVID→OpenLMIS long term
  • mention imp partners
  • Total cost of ownership in terms of:
    • what is our model
    • up front costs for things (on prem) vs Long term operating expenses
    • we can give indicative numbers (large vs small); example a low end would be a rapid COVID install

Next steps:

Ben send calendar hold with proposed webinar date/time- June 10th for first one, and then will plan subsequent webinars for other timezones and possibly one in French

we go through his questions he sent; send any questions we have on them

our team to develop set of slides/presentation and send to Ben a few days in advance for his review