Country Ownership Strategies: Asia Pacific Leadership Forum on Health Information Systems WHO WPRO Conference Center June, 2011

It is never too late to offer anything that is good. Union is the source of success. Orientation Norms

Agenda Monday, 13 June 8:30  Introduction to the Forum  HIS Impact Story - Thailand  Technical Overview of HIS  Overview of the Country Leadership & Ownership Framework Lunch  Working Group Session #1 - HIS Ownership and Leadership  Closing Plenary 5:00 Session Ends Tuesday, 14 June 8:30  A Collective Vision for HIS  Impact Story #2  Creating an Information Culture in HIS  Working Group Session #2 – MultiSectoral Engagement and Coordination/Demand for Data Lunch  Working Group Session #3 – HIS Strengths and Gaps Analysis  Closing Plenary 5:00 Session Ends

A Collective Vision for HIS Professor Abul Kalam Azad

HIS Impact Story Strengthening Vietnam’s HIS through System Design, Standards and Interoperability Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Hoang Phuong, Ph.D. Deputy Director, Department of Science & Training Ministry of Health of Vietnam

Principle: Strong national 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. Reality: In many countries, HIS remains fragmented, with little emphasis on aligning various information systems within an integrated national HIS framework. Few staff have health information and health IT skills. Goal: To improve understanding of HIS standards so as to increase timeliness, reliability and quality of information flow across systems, and to strengthen human resources for health information. Key players: MOH DST, USAID, GIZ, CDC, WHO, Rockefeller Foundation HIS Challenge

Placement of IT within Ministry of Health Dept of Science &Training (IT group) (Hosps., edu. Units, Institutes) CHITI MIC Med. Depts of 63 provinces, cities Goverment MOH Preventive Med. Dept. Dept of Med. Services Other Depts Planning & Finance Dept State Steering Committee on IT Chair: Vice Prime Minister Nguyễn Thiện Nhân MOH Steering Committee on IT in Health Chair: Minister. Nguyen Quoc Trieu IT Dept (Office of MOH) IT Dept (Office of MOH) Cabinet of MOH streering Commitee

Organized a regional workshop in HoiAn, Vietnam 4-7 April, 2011 to: Increase awareness of importance for adopting national HIS standards, of different types available and how they can be used, and local applicability. Promote awareness, applicability and use of enterprise architecture (EA) approach. Develop an inter-operability framework to support the implementation of priority HIS interventions. Actions Taken

Vice Minister of MOH of Vietnam (Prof. Nguyen Thi Kim Tien) deemed HIS strengthening a priority for Vietnam and identified several priority issues in 2011 – 2015 on which to focus: – EMRs and Hospital Information Systems (focusing on developing an exchange data protocol based on HL7 standard). – Unique Patient Identifiers – National Medical Database – Developing remote health consultation services and examination, treatment (Telemedicine) – Health Statistics Information Systems – Health Information Technology Human Resources – HIS and IT policy and legislation – Infrastructure Impact

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between MOH and key donors: USAID, WHO, CDC, Rockefeller Foundation etc. Establising MOH working group on HIS: Technical group on IT, Policy and legation group, IT human resource group. Identified Proof of Concept Pilots within the MOH Department on HIV/AIDS – Interoperability across LIS, PMIS …. Impact (cont’d)

– Propose establishment of MOH Department of IT. – Establish IT technical group within MOH to work with donors for HIS development where DST is a coordinator. – Establish health information technology working group to help MOH with IT applications in medical sector where DST is a coordinator. – Cooperate with Asia-Pacific countries to develop the standards and inter-operability of HIS. Next Steps

What to do after June’s Forum in Manila ? -Countries participating in the HIS forum should establish an international working group that organizes and implements pilot projects within our two regions that address standards and inter- operability of HIS (e.g. HIS data exchange engine based on HL7, DHIS etc.) that can be replicated in multiple countries. - Identify financial resources from governments, donors, and other organizations to support implementation of pilot projects. Key Messages

Thank You!

Strengthening Health Information Systems: Creating an Information Culture Manila, June 14, 2011 Theo Lippeveld, MD, MPH,

Country Ownership Strategies: Asia Pacific Leadership Forum on Health Information Systems WHO WPRO Conference Center June, 2011

Agenda Wednesday, 15 June 8:30  Effective MultiSectoral Collaboration  Working Group - Synthesis and Preparation for Report-Outs  Inter-Team Reporting and Networking Structured Networking Lunch  Highlights from Inter-Team Networking  Donor Panel – Resources to Support HIS Strengthening  Overview of Action Plans  Working Group Session #4 – Action Planning 5:00 Session Ends Thursday, 16 June 8:30  Impact Story #3  Working Group Session #5 – Action Planning Continued  Working Group - Synthesis and Preparation for Report-Outs Lunch  Inter-Team Reporting and Networking  Highlights of Country Priority Actions  Overview of VLDP  Evaluations  Closing Remarks 5:00 Session Ends