OpenHIE Academy is a community-supported initiative to build capacity for better health information exchange architecture processes.  To promote a vision of  a strengthened interoperable digital health ecosystem for better health in Asia, Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN) aimed to support members with the cost for OpenHIE Academy’s Foundations in Health Information Exchange – Certification Exam (USD 39 per person) in 2023. 

The certification exam designates that the certificate holder “understands the basic concepts of interoperability, understands the basic function of health information exchange and the OpenHIE Architecture components, can designate which HIE architecture components are needed to solve a health data exchange challenge, and has a basic understanding of the importance of semantic and syntactic standards.” The members who signed up for the course would be required to complete the certification exam within four weeks.

Participation

Forty (40) participants across four batches successfully passed the OpenHIE Foundations certification exam within the specified timeframe and received certification. Table 1 shows that the passers were from a selection of 45 candidates (spread across four batches) out of 155 accumulated applicants over three rounds of calls for participation. Three rounds of calls were organized to maximize, as much as possible, the available number of slots. To fill in the 80 certification exam slots, the AeHIN Governing Committee, with support from Working Council members, reviewed and selected applications.

Summary of Number of Applicants, Selected Candidates, and Passers in OpenHIE Foundations Certification

Batches

 Duration of Completion No. of Applicants No. of Selected Candidates No. of Passers

1

May 19 – June 9

 63 45 16

2

 July 3 – July 30 64 27

12
3 Aug. 11 – Sept. 8 28 18

9
4 Sept. 28 – Oct. 26 Previous waiting list* 8

3

*Note: There were three calls for application. Selected candidates for the fourth batch were pooled from previous waiting lists

To get the certificate of completion, the participants completed the required OpenHIE Academy courses (see list in the output section) and passed the exam with a grade of 80% or above.

Overall, nine (9) countries were represented among OpenHIE Foundations certification exam passers; most of the passers were from Sri Lanka.

In terms of sectoral representation, most of the exam passers (57 %) were part of the government.

Output

The 40 passers gained knowledge and certification on the foundations of HIE from the following OpenHIE Academy courses over four weeks:

  • Introduction to HIE: Foundation of Health Information Exchange
  • Overview of the OpenHIE Architecture: Overview of Architecture Components
  • Introduction to Health Data Standards
  • Interoperability

This also included familarization on the OpenHIE Architecture Specification.

The list of participants who completed the course and consented to publish their names in this announcement are:

  • SAMNANG OUNG, CAMBODIA
  • MADHU BHATIA, INDIA
  • MANISHA MANTRI, INDIA
  • MIEKE NURMALASARI, INDONESIA
  • NINDYA WIDITA AYUNINGTYAS, INDONESIA
  • ARIFF AZFARAHIM IBRAHIM, MALAYSIA
  • TEH XIN ROU, MALAYSIA
  • TEOH KAH WOON, MALAYSIA
  • YAM WAI KEAT, MALAYSIA
  • JULIUS CASTRO, PHILIPPINES
  • MARBERT JOHN C. MARASIGAN, PHILIPPINES
  • CPT MARIKIT P TOQUERO NC, PHILIPPINES
  • MIGUEL ALJIBE, PHILIPPINES
  • CHARITHA PRAGEETH NARASINGHE, SRI LANKA
  • DR GOBICA PIRIYANANTH, SRI LANKA
  • HEWA ATAPATTHUGE DILUMI CHETHANA, SRI LANKA
  • KASTHURISINGHE MUDIYANSELAGE MALINDA PASAN BANDARA WIJERATNE, SRI LANKA
  • MALINTHA INDIKA ALAHAKOON, SRI LANKA
  • MAYABANDARA JAYASEKARA MUDIYANSELAGE YASITH WARUNAPRIYA MAYABANDARA, SRI LANKA
  • PIRAYA SAICHOL, THAILAND

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1 OpenHIE Academy Certification: https://academy.ohie.org/?page_id=1098 (Accessed July 12, 2023)