Date

24 January 2012

How To Join

Contact @Paul Biondich for more information on how to join the call.

In Attendance

Agenda

• Rwanda Update - Hamish

• Partnership Engagement Document - Chris

Meeting Minute

View at notes.openmrs.org

Attendees
Hamish Fraser
Chris Seebregts
Michael Downey
Michael Seaton
Jamie Thomas
Paul Biondich
Burke Mamlin
Andy Kanter
Darius Jazayeri

Agenda
Rwanda Update - Hamish (30 min)

Minutes

• Partnerships

  • Chris sent out a first draft document before the meeting about partnerships

  • outlines the process and how we dcommunicate with 

  • We had a contact through the email - marketing company with purchase space or room for an article in a magazine

  • Would like to follow up on opportunities like this and keep them on file

  • Develop a streamline process to follow up in a coordinated fashion and in a timely matter. as well as to direct them to the apporpriate people in the community

  • There should be more operational things that come up in the future with partnerships

  • Prescreening prior to hitting Chris?

  • Meetings go thorugh how to archive and record these interactions

• Rwanda Update

  • Three main OMRS projects MVP, IMB, RHEA

  • How they work together and do not, to better deploy tools

  • Minsitry has been working on roll out plan for over 3 years now over 280 sites

  • Moving from iqchat to openmrs, focus on HIV

  • using for monthly reporting and sending to TRAC

  • looking to roll out to more sites for registration, will need more resources and training

  • SDMX output and link to the TRACnet system - have a working system

  • Gilbert has been putting together this OpenMRSpolice hospital in Kigali

  • patient registration running, ids, labs, decpensing and inventory in local pharmacy. have semi coded diagnosis list as well

  • worried about the sustainability because of the customization

  • working more sith standar forms which could be helpful

  • IMB site has been running for 6 years - Kenya & Rwanda for PIH

  • MESH initative - nurses are mentored by more senior clinicians

  • use sync stations

  • concept dictionary - the ministry has added concepts not part of the collaboration with IMB

  • Rwamagana district is using the concept dictionary at two site

  • Rwamagana has 4 registries - facility, client, provide, terminology services (RHEA project)

  • Do not have a way to sync lab data

  • would like to find a way for how these projects in Rwanda could collaborate on their efforts

  • ministry in the process of hiring registry coordinators - curating content and content distribution

  • thus terminology issues will be that persons area of intrest

  • Focus for Rwanda's future will be HIV, TB, and accute care

  • Worry that we may have issues with collaboration becasue in the past we could not get collaboration on the concept dictionary.

  • what would be the benefit with harmonizing the RHEA sites with the IMB? - lab information systems could help to track HIV

  • the more we can harmonize these projects the better things will be and work

  • RHEA is an initative that was started by Richard and Jembi. PEPFAR and others have invested in the initative and so Ricahrd is in charge of the budget.

  • For RHEA to succeed must have a value proposition of measureable impact.

  • Use cases need to show value in health, should not focus on technology.

  • Would like to see use cases that can provide deliverable measurable impact documented.

  • MoH supported OpenMRS sites could benefit from sync