This document summarizes a presentation on developing an interoperability maturity toolkit for health information systems. The toolkit includes a maturity model and assessment tool to help stakeholders evaluate their current status and develop plans to improve interoperability. The model has domains like leadership, technology, and data ethics, with levels describing a progression from basic to optimized capabilities. A collaborative process involved stakeholders from Ghana and Kenya to create the toolkit, which aims to promote standardized, secure data sharing and better health outcomes through cooperation. Next steps involve piloting the toolkit and developing additional components to make it a global public good.

1. Cooperability for
Interoperability
Manish Kumar, MPH
Christina Villella, MPH
Sam Wambugu, MPH, PMP
MEASURE Evaluation
December 2017
Global Digital Health Forum

2. Consultation

3. Malaria Test

4. Malaria Treatment

5. Interoperability for Better Care

6. What would this achieve?
• Collect data once; use many times
• Cooperation among stakeholders
• Use consistent/standard rules
• Sensitivity to legal, ethical, and social
requirements
• Commensurate levels of security, privacy,
and confidentiality
• Use a single set of foundational elements

7. Better Health Outcomes
Better health
outcomes
Improved
health system
Strong health
information
system

8. How would this happen?
• There is more to interoperability than
technology systems
• Cooperation among people, systems, and
organizations
• Need everyone at the table
• Policymakers, program managers, healthcare
providers, technologists, donors, etc

9. Interoperability is no small task.
HIS Interoperability Maturity Toolkit

10. • What are the pieces of the toolkit?
• Why did we choose a maturity model concept?
• How was the toolkit developed?
• What are the components of the maturity model?
• How will this toolkit be used?
• What are the next steps for the toolkit?
• More questions from you
Session Plan

11. HIS Interoperability Maturity
Toolkit
Maturity model Assessment tool
User Guide

12. • A maturity model helps assess “as-is” status with an
eye to improving it
• Describes improvement path
• Helps define metrics to monitor and measure
progress
• Offers a common framework for HIS improvement
Why a maturity model?

13. Co-creation Process
Ghana Kenya
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14. Cooperability is key.

15. Domains: Leadership & Governance

16. Domains: Human Resources
Data Ethics
and Law

17. Domains: Technology

18. Interoperability

19. Path to Maturity

20. Domains and Levels

21. Example
Subdomain: Governance structure for HIS
Level 1:
Nascent
Level 2:
Emerging
Level 3:
Established
Level 4:
Institutionalize
d
Level 5:
Optimized
No formal HIS
governing body
Formally constituted
HIS governing body
with data
governance
responsibility
Governing body
meets regularly
Government-led
governing body
monitors
implementation of
work plan
Governing body is
legally constituted
and nationally
recognized as HIS
leader

23. Maturity Model
Levels
Subdomains
Domain
Attributes

24. Assessment Tool

25. Assessment Process
Determine need for
assessment
Identify scope of
the assessment
Form assessment
oversight team
Conduct desk
review
Assemble in-
country assessment
team
Data collection
workshop
Data analysis Action planning

26. Mapping Assessment Results to
Maturity Model

27. • Results can be used for overall HIS strengthening:
• Designing or updating interoperability component for
eHealth strategy
• Prioritizing interoperability HIS resources
• Planning HIS enterprise architecture
• Developing work plans with implementing partners
• Submitting requests for funding from donors
Using Results for Action

28. What’s next?
December
2017
Version 0.5
complete
FY 2018
Pilot testing
Other toolkit
pieces
Post-FY18
Global
public good

29. For More Information
https://www.measureevaluation.org/resources/tools/health-
information-systems-interoperability-toolkit

30. This presentation was produced with the support of the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) under the terms of MEASURE Evaluation
cooperative agreement AID-OAA-L-14-00004. MEASURE Evaluation is
implemented by the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in partnership with ICF International; John Snow, Inc.; Management
Sciences for Health; Palladium; and Tulane University. Views expressed are not
necessarily those of USAID or the United States government.
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