Description of Session
How can you create a national health worker registry when competing databases already exist? One way is to create a shared national repository that draws a minimum data set from each database and shares back this larger, more comprehensive database back with the original systems. Sounds easy, eh? Well, the reality is anything but easy. HISP South Africa and IntraHealth International are working with the National Department of Health in South Africa to create a national health worker registry and Vincent Shaw and Luke Duncan will share their experiences from this voyage of discovery into the heart of systems interoperability. - How to create an agreed minimum data set with multiple competing stakeholders? - When to start discussions on actually sharing data to create that data set? - What should the system architecture look like? - Which technologies and methodologies to use on the software side? - What incentives (and disincentives) work on the human side? - Who gets to claim success and when? They will try to answer all these questions and more as part of a wider discussion on interoperability in the trenches of real systems operations. We expect these presenters to be added to a larger discussion on interoperability.
