Established after the Visioning Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand April 6-8, 2016

1. The Asia eHealth Information
Network: Strategic Roadmap
2016-2020
credits to Dr Steeve Ebener for some slides
Alvin B. Marcelo, MD
Executive Director
Asia eHealth Information Network
(www.AeHIN.org)

2. • Review AeHIN achievements since inception in
2011
• Present the strategic roadmap for the next 5
years
Objectives

3. 2016 Visioning Workshop

4. o Established in 2011 with support from the World Health Organization
o Started with seven professionals from 6 countries
o Now with more than 700 members from 25 countries
o Goal: support national eHealth development in Asia
About AeHIN
Shared problem in 2011: we did not have
interoperability even within Ministries of Health

7. EA:
enterprise
architecture
/blueprint
IT Governance DC,
June 2015
MA4Health
Dhaka
June 2014
mPossible

8. Vientiane
Draft Response MA4Health
Call to action
Yogyakarta
Oct 2015
FIKI
Colombo
Oct 2015
eHealthAsia

9. Dhaka,
April 26-28,
2016
MA4Health/Heal
th Data
Collaborative
Kuala Lumpur,
April 25, 2016
ArchiMate :
notation for
enterprise
architecture

10. DC,
June 2015
MA4Health

11. Increase the level and efficiency of investments by
governments and development partners to
strengthen the country health information system in
line with international standards and commitments
Call to Action 1:
• Govt to lead the formation of multi-sector eHealth
governance and management structures
• Adopt IT Governance frameworks
• Adopt a national eHealth blueprint
• Consolidate enterprise architects from Ministries
Responses to Call to Action 1:

12. COBIT5: an IT Governance Framework

13. eHealth Blueprints (enterprise architecture)

14. Regional Enterprise Architecture Council for Health
(REACH)
Total trained: 28
Number certified: 12
• Bangladesh - 1
• Philippines - 2
• Sri Lanka - 2
• Thailand – 2
• Mongolia – 2
• Malaysia - 3

15. Strengthen country institutional capacity to collect,
compile, share, disaggregate, analyze, disseminate,
and use data at all levels of the health system
Call to Action 2:
• Consider using internationally-vetted blueprints
such as the OpenHIE architectural framework
• Support the development of in-country
interoperability labs to help electronic medical
records achieve interoperability
Response to Call to Action 2:

16. Ensure that countries have well-functioning sources
for generating population health data, including civil
registration and vital statistics systems, censuses, and
health surveys tailored to country needs, in line with
international standards
Call to Action 3:
• All partners (global, regional, national and sub-
national) to collaborate and jointly develop
reporting systems)
• Understand that we all work in a continuum and
our data traverse sectors and boundaries
Response to Call to Action 3:

17. Maximize effective use of the data revolution, based
on open standards, to improve health facility and
community information systems including disease
and risk surveillance and financial and health
workforce accounts, empowering decision makers at
all levels with real-time access to information
Call to Action 4:
• Link universities to each other and share eHealth
content responsive to national and regional needs
Response to Call to Action 4:

18. Promote country and global governance with citizens’ and
community’s participation for accountability through
monitoring and regular, inclusive transparent reviews of
progress and performance at the facility, subnational,
national, regional, and global levels, linked to the health-
related SDGs.
Call to Action 5:
• Step 1: jointly define global, regional, national indicators
(response 3)
• Step 2: assist countries develop national/sub-national
M&E systems that add up to regional/global reporting
requirements
Response to Call to Action 5:

19. 1. Continue to strengthen the network (response 1 and 3)
• General meetings, collaborative projects, website,
mailing list, HingX
2. AeHIN Academy (response 4)
• Trainings, webinars, research (APUHC-AeHIN)
(support from ADB) --
3. Regional Enterprise Architecture Council for Health
(REACH) (response 1 and 5)
4. Regional Reference Interoperability Lab (including the
AeHIN GIS Lab) + Community of Interoperability Labs
(COIL) (response 2)
5. Convergence workshops: Bhutan (June 20)/Nepal (July
11?)/Cambodia/Vietnam/Laos/Myanmar/Samoa
Visioning Workshop Output (April 2016)

20. Major updates since the 4th General Meeting (Bali)
o ADB Policy briefs on health IDs, CRVS, and
Geographic Information Systems
o Support to Laos CRVS program
o Special interest groups/services
o GIS Lab
o Routine Health Information Systems
o DHIS2-implementing countries (12)
o Research (10 PhDs to work on AeHIN
topics)
o Community of Interoperability Labs (5)
o Coming soon: convergence workshops in
Bhutan and Nepal

21. Mapping of AeHIN Interest Groups

22. OpenHIE Architecture Framework

24. Summary
• AeHIN’s peer-to-peer network is an effective platform for learning especially
where resources are scarce and the domain is complex.
• Use of IT in healthcare is often dizzying, confusing, and complex. It can
overwhelm policymakers and health practitioners.
• AeHIN proposes an eHealth capacity roadmap –
• Adoption of governance frameworks (WHO-ITU, COBIT5) and standards-
based blueprint methodologies (TOGAF) can help countries navigate
through this complexity
• When Asian countries share their best practices and lessons learned –they
ride the steep learning curve together, and help each other avoid committing
the same mistakes.
• Through the network, best practices are shared and common grounds are
found paving the way for regional cooperation and interoperability.