August 11, 2020

Introductions and Call opening (5 min)

• Notes from July Governance call

July Notes

Welcome

Review agenda for this call

OpenLMIS product roadmap has been updated and is available at Living Product Roadmap

Solicit other 'wish list' ideas? (ie: if 3PLs could report into OpenLMIS to facilitate KPI reporting had been raised lately...) 

New web page: https://openlmis.org/covid-19-edition/

Cameroon:

• First round of training for central and regional warehouse users is complete, overall successful; Next round this week is for facility-based users. Anticipate a total of 50 users
• Continued interest in OpenLMIS for other programs too *COVID Edition is a way to plant the OpenLMIS seed in countries and promote adoption
• interoperability with DHIS2 is a priority
• Carl: What is DHIS2 Tracker doing with Supply Chain? 
• Gaurav: Have notes and a demo from a call we had with DHIS2; using Tracker to collect 1) SoH, 2) received 3) what is required. It doesn't necessarily meet all country needs; some concerns about product lists being mismatched with countries. Interoperability needs to involve a mapping of facilities
  • Need to define requirements for data elements to be represented in DHIS2
  • This is with Cameroon; involving the HISP West Africa group
• Wes: We would rather there not be 2 platforms doing 2 slightly different things
• Brian: We haven't gotten any time with the interoperability people at DHIS2; perhaps Carl can nudge

Zimbabwe: 

• After political delays/change in leadership, have agreed to local deployment

Cautiously optimistic that DRC will be the next country to adopt this tool; have recently met with MoH; moving forward well

Wes: Next major piece will be for us to figure out local hosting; it will be running in a data center which is a significant change for us. We don't prefer to do this but it comes up frequently as a country preference

• Carl: reach out to HIE Dev Ops community–trying to pull together recs and best practices; there may be things that can be leveraged there.
• Would we loop in Josh Zamor? Cape Carl attends these calls 

Gaurav: Had a conversation with PATH's access to oxygen team, they were looking to deploy an asset mgmt system. There is an opportunity to significantly expand the OpenLMIS footprint.

Brian: Had a call with Alex from PATH yesterday to move this oxygen work along; DRC is well positioned for this

Activity to take GS1 standards and make sure they are represented in FHIR; to spread use of FHIR in the health information space; get standardized representation of supply chain data from systems like EMR the more visibility we have into forecasting needs, etc. That work is under way http://build.fhir.org/ig/IHE/pharm-supply/toc.html

Getting ready for the next stage of this work: having product catalog to pool all of the data into cohesive lists; both natl catalogs as well as global product catalogs (RHSC, COVID19), and how to map all those together

Getting this work initiated -http://build.fhir.org/ig/HL7/fhir-order-catalog/branches/master/drugs.html

Want to pull in inputs from the PCMT community and OpenLMIS community to make sure we meet the needs of everyone 

Assume we (OpenLMIS) wants to adhere to these standards

Is there interest in this group of having a continued discussion? Wes: Yes, this is something we want to leverage and be able to interoperate with. Product Committee could be a good next step

Implications for roadmap and timelines; want to get strategic alignment as well

Next Step: Wesley Brown to facilitate discussion on this in upcoming Product Committee Meeting; then we can loop back to governance committee re: strategy/timelines 

Conferences and Meetings

Conferences provide the community the opportunity for OpenLMIS members to speak or represent the OpenLMIS software and community in public forum.

Opportunities documentation

Definitions to use shared terminology:

• Implementation opportunity: an opportunity for an implementation or deployment of the OpenLMIS software.  Usually this is done at a national or sub-national level within a ministry of health. This can also include feature work which would be done within the implementation and contributed back to the global codebase.
• Community opportunity: a funding opportunity to support an organization or individual to work directly on the global codebase and/or administrate the community processes. This may include funding specific features on the community roadmap.

• This Trello table is being updated on an ongoing basis; to help the core team to track and manage implementation opportunities, but also provides a detailed snapshot of the scope and status of current implementation opportunities for stakeholders.

Community Opportunities:

• New Trello table! Similar to the above table, this tool is being used by the stewards to track our exploring of new product opportunities and partnerships

Study Tours:

• Study Tours wiki page tracks applications received, study tours completed, and other key milestones related to OpenLMIS Study Tours (this activity is no longer active due to COVID-19)