Hello, My name is Irene Nyakate from Uganda, currently volunteering with OpenMRS. i have interest in learning FHIR and how i can contribute code towards it.
Thank you.
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@irenyak1 Welcome! You may have seen my post to someone else with the following suggestions for getting started:
- Engagement in the community
There are a couple of ways that you might get a good picture of the more technical work including the context for FHIR Implementation Guides (FHIR IGs). One is to join in on some of the DevOps Community calls as this is where the detailed nuts and bolts for InstantOpenHIE and other technical issues are discussed. You can see agendas, minutes and details for this call on the wiki page. - Learning more about FHIR and integration
We have some foundational FHIR and other courses in our OpenHIE Academy. One of our partner organizations, AeHIN is also offering some training as noted in their materials.
I hope this is some information to get you started. Let us know if we can be of further help.
Jennifer
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Hi all, I’m Gareth from New Zealand. I’ve been part of the Medic team developing the Community Health Toolkit for around 8 years. I have a technical background starting off as a software developer and now in my role as Senior Director of Technology.
One project I’m passionate about right now is making it easy for CHT applications to utilise OpenHIE and FHIR for information exchange with other systems. Some particular services we would benefit from integrating with are Patient Registry, Health Worker Registry, and Shared Health Record.
The main challenge we’re facing right now is finding a partner with a specific integration requirement that we can work with to design, iterate, and deploy a solution which we can then build out to solve more general workflows.
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Hello, My name is Kenneth Dadzie, a Business Analyst at Systems for development, a technology consulting firm in Ghana.
My team and I are working on a project to integrate some siloed health systems in Ghana using openHIE to enable interoperability.
I would like to know the following
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How do we acquire openHIE for this use case ?
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How do we configure openHIE for our use case?
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The initial steps to take when implementing openHIE
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@kdadzie it is very nice to meet you. As you may guess, the response to these questions is not a 2 minute email. As a part of the secretariat for OpenHIE, I would love to meet with you to:
- Understand your use case(s)
- Share more about what OpenHIE is
- Share resources that can help you get started
Jennifer
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Thank you, Jennifer.
Is tomorrow 6th October 2022 at 11 am ideal for the meeting? If so, can I have your email address to add you to the meeting.
My email is kdadzie@s4dconsulting.com
I am unclear which time zone you are referring to. 12:00PM EST tomorrow is better for me. jeshiver@regenstrief.org
I am Dr M H Buddhika Ariyaratne (He/him/his) from Sri Lanka. Call me Ari.
I am a medical doctor who initiated, designed, developed, implemented, trained and maintained some open-source health information systems. buddhika75 (Dr. M H B Ariyaratne) · GitHub
- I am from Sri Lanka (in South Asia)
- HIMS, LIMS, Pharmacy Systems, EHR, etc
- Yes, making several existing health information systems communicate to each other using standards like FHIR.
- Singer - Jim Reeves (in fact we had a local Jim Reeves in Sri Lanka)
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Hello !
My name is Maxime Collin. I’m based in France and work for the Pierre Fabre Foundation as a Digital Health Project Officer. I mainly work on training programmes, national strategies, and tele-expertise projects (mainly applied to dermatology).
I’m essentially here to learn more about the OHIE community and all the works being done on that field !
If i have to pick one band, it would probably be Pink Floyd, and one song : Echoes.
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Hello, I am from Dhaka, Bangladesh. Currently I’m working on a national project of this country that works with the medical data. My favourite band is Artcell.
I’m glad to be a part of this community. Thanks
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@emon.swe.sust Artcell has a really neat sound, thanks for the introduction 
Wondering if you can say more about the project you are working on. What type of data are you working with? Are there any questions, pain points or challenges that the community might be able to help with?
HI I am Joyce Chishenga ,a Monitoring and Evaluation officer AHF in kenya, my roles entails providing technical advice/support on Data management,EMR implementation to the data team and the Team leads. Our main challenge on EMR Nupi implementation has been on the privacy of client information. am glad to be joining this group and look forward to great discussions
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I’m a contract programmer for Serving Communities Health Information Organization (SCHIO), formerly Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange (SCHIE).
I’ve served the Santa Cruz County healthcare community off and on since 1995, first as Technical Architect for Axolotl Corp., the developers of Elysium, then as a programmer for United HealthCare, and since 2014 with SCHIO.
My current work involves developing, maintaining, and supporting SCHIO and our providers and orgs using:
- Verato Universal Master Patient Index
- NextGen Health Data Hub (HDH)
- Mirth Connect
Looking forward to learning more about OpenHIE!
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Im located in Bells, TN.
I’m having a hard time navigating all of this.
Im interested in trying to help as much as I can, if I can. What got me interested and what lead me to this website was finding a document Im still not so sure about (not sure what the codes mean, confused by it’s content)
My favorite musicians are Death Grips, $uicideboy$, and Zelooperz
Hi OHIE community. I am George Githae a software engineer working on the product catalog management tool (PCMT). Am from Nairobi, Kenya. Elated to be part of the community 
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Hi @timewife1995. I’m not sure what document you might be referring to but if you are new to the world of health information exchange and OpenHIE you might find these self paced FREE online courses our community offers helpful - https://academy.ohie.org.
It’s good to see you here George! Hope you have rested up from the community meeting in Malawi last week! Not sure how familiar you are but we have a practice area around Product Management and Supply Chain, @josh.zamor actually leads this subcommunity. Wondering what contacts you may have made or conversations you may have had at OHIE23 to try and help support others working in this area. Maybe we can gather together to discuss or share work happening in this space?
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Thanks @jthomas, I am well rested and had a blast at the conference. Still new to the community, being checkout the tags and I have seen @josh.zamor leads the subcommunity. Happy to contribute what I have learned so far and learn more.
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I am Brian Twesigye from Uganda, an enterprise Architect and project management specialist. I work as a Graduate Research Associate with ResilientAfrican Network. I am working on my research project on designing a syntactic interoperability model using the FHIR standard to enable two systems to share patient medical records and documents. My challenge is finding a similar model and framework for sub-Saharan Africa or developing countries’ context.
My favorite song is Jireh by Marveric City
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Hi Brian,
I am tagging our technical committee to review & respond to your work & challenges. I think you have come to the right place. Happy to have you apart of the community.
@technical_committee do any of you all have some examples, insights, or connections you can offer Brian?