2007 Implementers Group Meeting Day Five
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(day four ←) DAY FIVE: THURSDAY, 26 APRIL 2007
Time | Title | Speaker/Event/Topic | Day Theme: OpenMRS - Funding and Proposals |
|---|---|---|---|
07:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast, small group meetings and discussion | ||
Session: Presentations and Workshop | Session Chair: Burke Mamlin, Regenstrief Institute | ||
09:00 - 09:15 | Health Information Systems | Rosemary Foster | |
09:15 - 09:45 | iKhapa | Andrew Boulle, Russel Eva | |
09:45 - 10:30 | Panel Discussion: Developing Capacity through Collaborative Academic Programs and User Networks | Panelists: Mark Spohr, Ghislain Kouematchoua, Chris Seebregts, Yashik Singh, Hamish Fraser, Christopher Bailey | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Tea | ||
Session: Presentations and Workshop | Session Chair: Chris Seebregts | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | Refine Proposals and Establish Working Groups | All | |
12:30 - 13:00 | Action Review | Chris Seebregts | |
12:45 - 13:00 | Close | ||
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
14:00 - 17:00 | Networking on veranda |
Action Review
What was supposed to happen?
Meet new members of the team
Bring people together and develop relationships not only between implementers and developers, but also between implementers themselves
Discuss capacity building
Learn about new features in OpenMRS
Give people the confidence in OpenMRS, showing progress to date
Advance the state of the art
Meeting as many new people as possible and understanding their needs and desires
Did not plan to have fun
Learn about evaluation tools for OpenMRS (document the problems and to document the effects of OpenMRS)
Learn who was working on what
Technical meeting early to accommodate the Friday holiday
Did not expect conversation of policy and capacity building
Expected to see rapid development tools
Expected to learn about how to implement OpenMRS
What actually happened
Met new team members
Discussed capacity building
Learned about exciting new features, but they went by quickly
"The meeting was a big success"
Did not get a good feel of how OpenMRS is supporting users
Auto installer was demonstrated
Developers, Implementers, and Users were able to interact and better understand where things stand
We saw demonstrations of promising mobile technologies
Fun was had by all
We did not cover formal evaluation tools
We did not hear about feedback from implementation questionnaires
What do we do from here
Consider having meetings for different needs or change future meetings to meet various needs
Are we ready for a separate users meeting (policy and user issues)?
Many spoke of the importance of allowing developers, implementers, users, and policy makers to interact
Technical day should be preceded by an overview
Bring OpenMRS team members to non-OpenMRS meetings
More time for break out sessions and informal discussion
Would like OpenMRS available on CDs for those without easy network access
Need to define the road map or blueprint for scaling OpenMRS to meet the needs
Mobile technology should be high on the agenda
Aim to show evaluation tools at next year's meeting
Add evaluation working group
Update the wiki during the conference like Burke did (best with someone that is not Burke)
Continue to encourage everyone to participate (except Elaine)
Next year's meeting
Select another venue. Rwanda?
Consider meeting twice a year (once in Rwanda and another time at Paul's house – Paul's paying) — "it doesn't hurt to ask"
Build on the success of the prior two years considering smaller, more focused meetings (similar to AMIA's Spring Conference)
Link an OpenMRS meeting to other activities (e.g., HELINA)
Could encourage OpenMRS folk to meet at other conferences
e.g., smaller mid-year meeting could be attached to another meeting
Avoid back-to-back conferences if possible
Volunteers to work on this: Hamish, Chris S., Paul
Take best advantage of our existing electronic technologies — feed the wiki and mailing lists