OHIE Blog

  • mHealth Alliance honors Dr.Richard Gakuba’s work in Rwanda

    The OpenHIE community would like to congratulate Dr. Richard Gakuba, of the Rwanda HIE initiative, for receiving the mHealth Alliance’s Holly Ladd mHealth Pioneer Award. On Monday December 9th, at the 5th annual mHealth Summit, Dr. Gakuba was named the …

    By: Jamie Thomas
    Posted On: December 15, 2013
  • CSD Facility Cross-Referencing

    Hi Everyone, (I wasn’t too sure which list to send this to, hope this is ok…) We’re currently adding functionality to the HIM to lookup facilities using CSD. Specifically we’re looking up facilities for validation in the normal save encounter …

    By: News
    Posted On: November 27, 2013
  • Notes and call recording from yesterday’s Connectathon Call

    Hi everyone I have attached the meeting notes from yesterday’s call which are also available online here on the Connectathon 2014 wiki page. The call recording is now available here. Source:: OHIE Standards Mailing List

    By: News
    Posted On: November 5, 2013
  • 2014 IHE Connectathon Info

    Hi All, Couple of follow up items from this morning’s 2014 IHE Connectathon call… 1. OpenHIE is a proud participant of IHE hosted events and to continue improving our alignment with standards development organizations we created a mailing list – …

    By: News
    Posted On: November 4, 2013
  • It threw the kitchen sink at us but we made it!

    “It threw the kitchen sink at us and made us work for it, but we made it!” – Wayne Naidoo (Technical Project Manager, Jembi) Wayne and Desire upgrading the Health Center Implementation On Wednesday this week, the team took on …

    By: News
    Posted On: August 9, 2013
  • Big push…2 more down!

    Monday 5, Aug 2013 I’m sitting here writing this to the sound of drums beating and imagining the dance classes happening down the road from the Jembi office in Rwanda. Symbolic too, as the team are working to a steady …

    By: News
    Posted On: August 6, 2013
  • What’s that…you’re live!? AGAIN!

    Yesterday we successfully installed and setup the Karenge Server at site which is now officially connected with the HIE in Rwanda. We also parallelized a number of activities in the field and picked-up and prepared the Avega and Gishali Health …

    By: News
    Posted On: August 2, 2013
  • Blow….puff….dust…..

    Cough…splutter…ahem. Well dusting off the blog and firing it up again to get things moving on the updates front. We are still here and working hard! Since our last post the RHEA team have been hard at work and quite …

    By: News
    Posted On: August 2, 2013
  • Year One for OpenHIE

    OpenHIE has dubbed 2013 as “the year of engineering”. This year is of particular significance because it is an opportunity for our OpenHIE subcommunities to collectively focus on the tasks of strengthening our community network of peer support, fostering our …

    By: Jamie Thomas
    Posted On: June 3, 2013
  • What is OpenHIE ?

    A common question we get is: “What is the OpenHIE initiative about?”  The short answer would be that OpenHIE is about helping resource-constrained environments leverage their electronic health information by standardizing it.  But it’s more involved than that… We’re about problem solving Different environments …

    By: Jamie Thomas
    Posted On: April 17, 2013
  • RHEA HIE workshop in a “nutshell”…

    International delegates and representatives from partnering organisations and various entities, excitedly made their way to Kigali – Rwanda, for the much anticipated Rwanda Health Information Exchange (HIE) workshop. The four-day workshop, 24th – 27th September 2012, hosted by the Rwanda …

    By: News
    Posted On: October 18, 2012
  • Click! We are LIVE!

    Click. A sound often associated with something locking into place, a switch being flipped or a concept making sense (ok the last one isn’t really a sound). So CLICK! So why am I stuck on CLICK today? There is an …

    By: News
    Posted On: September 21, 2012