Health Information Systems and Technology: Systems Design, Standards & Inter-operability Dates: 4-7 April 2011, Danang, Viet Nam

Health Information Systems and Technology: Systems Design, Standards & Inter-operability

Dates: 4-7 April 2011, Hoi An, Danang, Viet Nam

Venue: Golden Sand Resort and Spa, Hoi An City, Quang Nam Province, Viet Nam

Initial agenda (March 4, 2011)

Revised agenda (March 25, 2011)

Post-conference output

Technical Note on Multisector Collaboration

Rationale

Strengthening national health information systems (HIS) improves evidence-based decision-making, informs health policy and planning, enhances monitoring of public health, and can better address the continuity of care of individuals. This workshop is designed for health data managers, department managers, and statisticians to help them get the most out of their data. Focus is on Asia and the Pacific region.

Target Audience

People who are using Health Information Systems (HIS) and eHealth for routine data collection, individual patient care and services, surveillance, program planning and management, or monitoring health systems performance.

IT staff (data managers) working with data and information systems
Department and program managers that oversee design, development, and implementation of IT solutions
Clinic managers
Focus on low and middle-income countries in Asia and the Pacific

Workshop Objectives

To collaborate with stakeholders in ongoing planning and implementation of the health information infrastructure;
To increase awareness, applicability, and use of the enterprise architectural approach;
To understand the importance of adopting national HIS standards, know different types, when you would use them, and how to develop/adopt for local use; and
To develop an inter-operability framework to support implementation of priority HIS interventions.

This will bring together people who have implemented various types of health IT solutions (EMRs/EHRs, RHIS, HMIS, HRIS, LIS, health financing, national M&E frameworks and systems, telemedicine, mHealth, etc.) to discuss application development processes and data use in a collaborative environment that promotes sharing and learning. Techniques to improve the quality of data collection will also be discussed. This will be a collaborative workshop to share experiences, tools, and methods.

There will be a workshop wikipage created and used during the workshop and maintained afterwards to continue the education of health care workers in HIS standards, inter-operability, data quality and use.

Learning Objectives

Participants will better understand how to implement standards to increase the timeliness, reliability, and quality of information flows across increasingly inter-operable systems and prioritize and plan future HIS strengthening actions.

The agenda will be tailored to the needs of the participants. While we will have a complete agenda at the start of the meeting, we will adjust this to meet the expectations of the participants.

Topics

Health Information Systems (HIS) and Information Technology (IT)
Strategy alignment within health systems
Enterprise architecture—basic concepts, constructs, principles
Electronic Medical Records(EMR) / Electronic Health Records (EHR), routine HIS (RHIS)
Technical solutions and perspectives for interoperability
National health information infrastructure
Semantic interoperability for medical data
Standards for exchange health information (HL7version 2.x – 3.0, CDA, SDMX-HD)
Standards for medical devices data interchange (HL7 messages, ASTM, MFER, IEEE/ISO 11073)
Standards for medical images (DICOM)
Privacy, confidentiality, security, safety and effectiveness in EHR * International HI Standards
Hospital Information Systems with EMRs
Telemedicine / mHealth
National medical database
Data quality
Learning Networks

Collaborative communities of practice are a powerful tool that help people better understand the information that they are collecting to make better policy, planning, management, and clinical decisions. We are aware of several communities that have formed around specific techniques, software solutions or projects. We encourage anyone involved in such a group to come to the workshop to share their experiences, tips on forming and developing their network, implementing standards, and data analysis and use methods.

Ministry of Health Department of Science and Training

This workshop is being organized by the Ministry of Health's Department of Science and Training (DST). Formal invitations will be sent by DST, who ultimately will be in charge of the participant list.

Chair of Workshop: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, Vice Minister of MoH
Co-chair: Prof. Dr. Truong Viet Dung, Director of DST of MoH
Chair of Program and Organizing Committee: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Hoang Phuong, Deputy Director of DST.
Co-Chair of Program and Organizing Committee: Dr. Luong Chi Thanh, Director of the Central Health Information Technology Institute, MoH; & Dr. Pham Xuan Viet, Deputy Head of the Cabinet of the Steering Committee of IT, MoH.

Sponsors

This workshop is sponsored by USAID and the Centers for Disease Control under PEPFAR, World Health Organization (WHO), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation.

Session 1, Building country situation awareness, Chris Bailey, WHO

Session 2, Country focus sessions, Tom Hutton and Amy Gottlieb, CDC and USAID

Session 4, Interoperability, standards, and architecture, Knut Staring, WHO

Session 5, Resource tables / OST, Mark Landry, WHO

Session 6, EMRs, Hospital Information Systems and Telemedicine, Ophelia Mendoza, Consultant

Session 7, Policies, Governance, and TCO Considerations, Karl Brown, Rockefeller Foundation

Session 9, BTO preparation exercise, Julian Wimbush, InSTEDD

Session 11, Systems integration and interoperability issues, Bill Lober, ITECH

Session 12, Standards for Health Information Systems Issues, Alvin Marcelo, U. Philippines NThC

Session 13, Standards implementation road map, Mark Landry and Chris Bailey, WHO

Session 14, Country presentations: action plans, Mark Landry and Chris Bailey, WHO