August 13, 2019
- Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed)
- Wesley Brown
- Former user (Deleted)
Monthly OpenLMIS Governance Committee Call. This meeting includes members of the governance committee, as well as anyone else interested in participating.
Time
- 7:00 - 8:00 AM PST - Seattle
- 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST - New York, DC
- 3:00 PM CET - Geneva, Copenhagen (4PM during daylight saving time of the year)
- 5:00 PM EAT - Dar (6PM during daylight saving time of the year)
Call Details
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Action items for next call
Action Items from July Governance |
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- Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed) is still update the Digital Health Atlas to have separate entries for each country implementation, using info@ as principle contact for all country entries. (this is in progress)Carl Leitner or other person TBD will connect with the Digital Health Atlas folks to see if we can add contact spaces for additional entries --these updates are being made, not completed yet
- Brandon Bowersox-Johnson to draft statement that can go on our website to describe the different versions and which are supported by donors; we should also create a page describing upgrade path (2.0 to 3.0)- draft is completed and being revised
Notes
Topic | Who | Notes | Chat Captures |
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Introductions and Call opening
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Welcome | ||
| Study Tours-update | Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed) | Wiki page to track applications created: OpenLMIS Study Tours -first application from Cameroon received-under review Congo Opportunity- I received an expression of interest from the Data Manager au Ministère de la Santé et de la Population in the Congo (not the DRC)
JSI: potential interest, Ashraf to get back to me, they have french speakers BAO; reaching out to their team. they have french speakers | |
Sustainability work Update: Resonance | Resonance Team | Project Update: Continuing their work thru mid-November Viability and Costing workstream- working with VillageReach on this Contacting private health stakeholders: interviewing SMEs and potential customers *they are open to new leads if anyone has any contacts that they want to share! Initial observations: Private health market remains small; opportunities vary by country; cost is not necessarily the bottom line (affordability is important but so is efficiency); Small workstream is also taking place around agriculture; comparing workflows; will share report in early September around that Early September will share results around private health as well Craig: is there a difference in how the private vs public markets think about price? and how they measure it? Kim: Yes there is a big difference. This will be a big part of the interview process, and will work with Lenati more on costing Brandon: timeline runs through November, Sept is key touchpoint to share findings, is there a time we can get together in person about this key turning point? We will take this offline to | |
OpenHIE Meeting 2019 | Carl Leitner | Nov 4-9, Ethiopia JSI Ethiopia office is supporting the logistics for this meeting Last year was the first one in Arusha; MoH, implementing partners; it was a great event Registration opened last week for this meeting; we are still setting the agenda Quick head count to see who will be there: potential hackathon, and other learning opportunities Potential attendees: VR is encouraging staff to attend; Josh and other country staff JSI has 3-4 projects in Ethiopia so can encourage local staff to attend Craig: it was valuable to identify the agenda prior to the meeting; very participant driven. Identify what role you want to play in the meeting and what activities would be valuable for the community. →we can bring this up at the next governance meeting as per craig's advice | |
OpenLMIS Community Meeting- Nov 18-20 | Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed) | Save the Date! Johannesburg, Protea Hoteal in Standton (1 block from GHSC conference) Much more in depth than last year Objectives:
Ideas for product learning sessions so far:
Quick head count to gauge interest/availability of partners? Ashraf- interested, needs funding BAO; Dan needs to check their availability Kaleb- no Gates attendance due to a retreat that week Parambir- interested, needs funding Sachin- Empower is tentative; someone might be going for conference and can extend their stay. they will have more clarity in the coming weeks Carl- cannot attend but maybe the other Carl can. | |
| Philippines Expo Trip-opportunity update | Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed) | Govt of Philipines is reviewing products for an eLMIS. The below opportunity was circulated to the community partners–JSI expressed interest and Ashraf and Wendy B. (JSI Zambia) are being funded to represent OpenLMIS initiative at this 'Expo' event: This will be a great opportunity to showcase our product to the Govt of Philipines, and also see what other products are out there. JSI will take detailed notes about the other products and compile them into a Trip Report for to community to review and discuss. Suggestions from the group on how JSI should represent our product or our initiative as a whole to the Asia market? Carl suggested: they should meet Philip Zuniga- is the head of the Regional Interoperablity Lab (based in Manila) Should meet with Alvin Marcelo from AeHIN. Carl Leitner can make connections Brandon: Have a demo of all the key selling points ready; including integrations with OpenSRP; do a practice run beforehand So far they have only shared a one page flyer with their high level requirements; more details will be revealed in the Expo Gaps that we see: transportation, distribution, detailed inventory mgmt. There is an OpenSRP implementation in Indonesia, not Philippines | |
| Product Committee Update | Wesley Brown | Timeline for next release; 3.7 due for release at the end of August Upcoming feature priorities: 3.8 features are not yet confirmed or prioritized New Product Committee meeting structure (different objectives for each meeting)
Our development budget is significantly less (about 80% less than during the GAP project), so we are making good progress Feature backlog wiki page: Feature Backlog | |
eSwatini RFI (PSM) | Parambir S Gill (Unlicensed) | RFI dates extended until the 30th of August | |
| Update with Product Catalog Management Tool (PCMT) | Josh Zamor and Carl | What is in the works and how it is planning to interact with OpenLMIS Progressing, a tool is selected, a project is set up in Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/pcmt/pcmt/wikis/home Also, there is a Digital Square RFA that is out now which includes connecting openIMIS (health insurance) to a Product Registry: https://applications.digitalsquare.io/rfa-2019-016 | |
| AeHIN webinar opportunity | Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed) | details are in the works | |
Update on aggregate reporting standards (if time allows) | Carl and Josh | aggregate reporting standard with FHIR was published Discuss differences in what is being done currently with OpenLMIS DHIS2 the key FHIR person is leaving this week | |
Conferences and Meetings Conferences provide the community the opportunity for OpenLMIS members to speak or represent the OpenLMIS software and community in public forum. | All | Upcoming Conferences
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Opportunities Roundtable Definitions to use shared terminology:
| Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed) | Country implementation opportunities:
Community Opportunities:
Study Tours:
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ATTENDANCE: Former user (Deleted), Wesley Brown, Carl Leitner, Josh Zamor, Craig Appl (Unlicensed), Dan Cocos (Unlicensed), Ashraf, Lindabeth Doby, Kaleb Brownlow (Unlicensed), Parambir S Gill (Unlicensed), Brandon Bowersox-Johnson
RECORDING AND CHAT TRANSCRIPT
ADDITIONAL READING
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