Evaluation and Impact Lead
Contact Information
Email: hamish@openmrs.org
Phone: +1-617-477-4153
Twitter: TBD
IRC: hamish
Blog: TBD
Office Hours: Wednesday 10am EST
Description
The Evaluation Lead is an individual who oversees and operationalizes the collection of evidence and the design and support of evaluation studies of OpenMRS. This person has the requisite leadership skills to bring together individuals and organizations to create this key evidence base. They take a lead role in the assessment of how well OpenMRS meets the needs of the users and organizations that rely on it, and in developing study protocols and processes to measure routine performance, clinical and programmatic impact in the field, and costs. This includes a core focus on the application/UI and user support layer of OpenMRS and ensuring that it receives appropriate priority in the roadmap.
Responsibilities
Collecting and distributing evidence on the clinical and programmatic impact of OpenMRS
Developing strategies to support evaluation and evidence generation by OpenMRS implementors and users
Promoting the development of tools in OpenMRS to monitor systems uptime, performance, use and data quality
Help/lead development of a comprehensive strategy for use of data from OpenMRS for viewing, reporting and analysis.
Leading instrumentation of OpenMRS to facilitate both informatics research and broader clinical research
Identifying weaknesses in OpenMRS and ensuring that addressing these receives priority in the road map
Encouraging and assisting presentation and publishing on evaluation studies of OpenMRS in international forums
Working with the broader eHealth and mHealth community to bring best practices in evaluation to projects using OpenMRS and other information systems
Working with Partnership lead to improve academic collaboration
Participate in OpenMRS management calls and face-to-face meetings
Establish regular and ad hoc reporting to OpenMRS President / CEO and OpenMRS leadership committee
Actively involved in fundraising and financial management
2013 Goals
Carry out a survey of OpenMRS implementations to assess their experience with and needs for evaluation studies
Develop a guide to literature on eHealth systems that have shown clinical and programmatic impact in resource poor environments and how that evidence can be translated into better support for healthcare
Organize a one day(?) meeting on eHealth evaluation and OpenMRS likely around the annual symposium
Identify 2 or more organizations that are committed to carrying out evaluation studies and provide advice and support where needed
Lead a strategic discussion on reporting and data access from OpenMRS
Lead development of tools for monitoring OpenMRS performance and use in the field along with a dashboard overview
Requirements
Protected time
Statistical or study design support
Travel funds?
Assistance with development of web resources
Not responsible for...
Vocabularies
Development of the reporting and analysis software