July 18 2017

We are awaiting feedback sent via email by Friday. Tenly will consolidate and send back on Monday. DHIS2 has been working on this toolkit for some time and we expressed interest as a community to provide feedback on how to approach and use or integrate DHIS2 and LMIS.

Please track your changes and only leave comments.

Member updates? Upcoming travel or opportunities?

My updates:

• Heard that Cambodia may put out a RFP
• Discussions with BAO on putting a POC together for DHIS2 and OpenLMIS integration for GDHF. Use cases welcome! Integration and interoperability
• I, Mary Jo, will be out July 21 - August 4.
• Logistimo update
• Ghana put out a EOI
• Others?

Last meeting: We mentioned we are moving ahead with building out feature sets in OpenLMIS and are continuing exploring opportunities to leverage tech or experience with Logistimo. We will keep the community updated on the conversation.

Ashraf: Integrating OpenLMIS, eLMIS, with DHIS2, for each of the facilities we have to get the org IDs, for over 6,000 different facilities we had to get from DHIS2. There was no other work around. I was hoping in further dialogue that we can impress on them that there may be more automated ways to try to resolve these issues. This is currently a tedious process, and we should discuss these pain points with them.

If this gets accepted for a presentation, we want to share our experiences of setting up the POC and discuss other experiences.

We haven’t talked about the best way to keep these lists in sync. How do we maintain this mapping? This is a change management process problem.

Parambir: I understand the concern, the one thing that needs to be crystal clear, which application hosts the master data? In our experience, for DHIS2, the system assigns the org ids. Given that we are going to get standards compatible, we want most of the software to be global standards compatible. So how does DHIS2

Which application is the master data holder? What if the master data is coming from a third party? The country has their product ids and location ids. What if the facility ids are coming from a global standards list? How does DHIS2 handle this? If the third party provides this data, then does the owner of the master data change from DHIS2 to the third party?

Jake: Various countries have different maturity models. Some make DHIS2 the master data source, but this is complex to administer and doesn’t support changes. Primer on GS1 in v3: https://openlmis.atlassian.net/wiki/display/OP/GS1

Ashley: with Americares, we are working on implementing paper forms in Liberia, and we are exploring LMIS solutions for El Salvador. We would like to contribute to further development.

Here is the link to the Opportunities discussion: /wiki/spaces/OO/pages/61866022

We would like feedback on the next requests

• Adding a date field to requisitions: Should this be a required date, or a configurable program setting?
• Requisition status: User needs to know the full history of statuses and the current status of the requisition.
• Low stock or no stock notifications: How many people, or who would want to receive this notification?

Please respond, even briefly with your comments and opinions to the email Mary Jo will send shortly.

Vaccine features update

• Design workshop is this week in Senegal
• Will focus on the resupply workflow. Some of the critical questions we plan to dig into:
  • The key pieces of information needed/used in making resupply decisions (we are interested in the SOPs AND informal processes).
  • What are the key challenges faced by the key user personas?
  • The team will facilitate user design activities like, empathy mapping, activity diagramming, prototyping and more.

Gap Analysis Update

• Gap Analysis work extended to July 31 to allow more time for documentation in Zambia
• Majority of documentation in Tanzania is complete
• 18 Feature Gaps from the Tanzania analysis have been added to Confluence but information needs to be cleaned, formatted and reviewed by JSI.  The Zambia analysis work will build on the documentation from Tanzania in Confluence.  Most of the gaps were on the requisition side but a number identified in reporting as well.
• Paul from PATH likely to join the JSI team again week of July 24 in Zambia
  

Question to PC: Do we start reviewing the Tanzania gaps while Zambia continues to gather documentation? Given the amount of documentation, what is the best way to get input from the PC? Voting or discussion around top priorities?

If anyone has ideas on how we will review all the feature sets.

-        Meet in person? 

Amanda: Most of the content has been updated in Confluence. Alfred and Ashraf, please review the user stories. They aren’t organized as a typical user story and need updates. We’re hoping to have everything completed by end of month.

Chris: Zambia is a subset of Tanzania. We are not doing vaccines. We will look at what has been done in the Gap analysis for Tanzania.

Wendy: As we finish this gap analysis work, it is taking more time and costing more money. If Tanzania has provided the information, what more is Zambia supposed to provide?

Amanda: Validate and comment on the gap analysis. You may have additional features to add as well.