The Open Health Information Exchange (OpenHIE), a community that builds a standards-based architected approach to support nations as they develop health information exchanges (HIEs) to improve patient care, public health, and the management of health resources, has recognized their long-time friend, the Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN), as one of its official partner
3 December 2021, 1:30 PM Vientiane Time During the Digital Health Convergence Workshop held in March 2021, stakeholders agreed on developing the foundations for digital health such as Governance, Architecture, Program Management and Standards. In addition, the workshop produced an action plan for the next five years focusing on 7 priorities such as infrastructure, workforce,
2 December 2021, 9:30 AM-5 PM (Thimphu Time) The health sector of Bhutan has made tremendous efforts in adoption of technology admits this COIVD-19 pandemic. One of such achievement is going for paperless vaccine program with the implementation of the Bhutan Vaccine System. Bhutan also has ePIS, a HIS Flagship project coming up as priority
1 December 2021, 7:00-9:30 PM (Bangkok Time) Thailand has successfully implemented universal health coverage (UHC) program since 2002. Three major health insurance schemes, the civil servant medical beneficiary scheme (CSMBS), the social security scheme (SSS) and the universal health care scheme (UHCS), have been implemented. Out- patient and in-patient services provider payment data systems are
29 November 2021, 12:00-1:30 PM Manila time The Philippines Department of Health was one of the earliest adopters of IT Governance in Asia when it created the multi-sectoral National eHealth Steering Committee and Technical Working Group in 2013. With this structure, mechanisms for clear decision-making, delegation of accountabilities, and sectoral investments were created. Recently, new
The openIMIS Regional Hub in Asia aims to promote a demand-supply ecosystem that will support the adoption of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) applied in healthcare, such as openIMIS. To understand the needs and perspectives of stakeholders in the ecosystem, AeHIN hosted a Focus Group Discussion on Free and Open Source Software for Healthcare
In support of the openIMIS October 2021 release version, the openIMIS Regional Hub Asia gathered testers who could contribute to completing the test case scenarios for the openIMIS modular release instance (174 test cases), openIMIS legacy release instance (74 test cases), and the openIMIS claims AI instance (12 test cases). On September 29, the openIMIS
The Asia eHealth Information Network joined as an exhibitor at the the second WHO Western Pacific Region Partners' Forum held on June 30-July 2, 2021. AeHIN was among the 54 organizations that showcased their work at the Exhibitor Expo. The Expo has provided another venue for AeHIN to introduce the work it has been
The Asia eHealth Information Network has organized a TOGAF certification training for its AeHIN member countries via Zoom last June 1-4, 2021. CC and C Solutions facilitated the online training which was attended by members from the Ministry of Health of Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam.
The Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN), together with development partners and government ministries of Lao PDR, participated in the Lao Convergence Workshop on March 30-31 via online conference. AeHIN presented the AeHIN Mind the GAPS Framework which served as part of the regional capacity-building on digital health. Dr. Alvin Marcelo, Executive Director of AeHIN,
