CDC Central Initiative Technical Assistance Platform (TAP)

Multi-Country Programme

CDC Central Initiative Technical Assistance Platform (TAP)

Project Time Frame:

October 2020 - September 2025

Summary

Jembi is a prime awardee under the TAP programme and leads the Data Integration Strategies and Implementation (DISI) component. DISI aims to improve sustainable health information systems to improve patient care and programme monitoring, with an initial use case focusing on HIV case-based surveillance. The program is set up to provide shared resources, expertise and documentation across the PEPFAR community, along with capacity building initiatives and guidance on policies and governance.

Project Goals

01

Improve (individual) data management and use through:

- Supporting the implementation of metadata management tools
- Supporting the implementation of tools such as EMR, client registry, data warehouse
- Supporting the implementation of data visualization tools
- Strengthening the data use pipeline

02

Strengthen existing country-led implementations through technical assistance (TA) by:

- Supporting the migration of data and systems to newer adaptable and scalable products
- Strengthening the use and management of unique patient IDs
- Assure quality of integration and implementation work
- Harden security
- Build country and in-country implementing partner capacity to implement informatics systems
- Conduct peer programming
- Build relationships with ministries
- Prioritize initiatives at current maturity level to validate use of TAP products

03

Produce high quality products:
- Build or refine generalisable products
- Harden security
- Maintain a production style integrated reference implementation of OHRI, CDR and MPI

Improve coordination with TAP, countries, and existing communities:
- Working groups specific to products or approaches
- Document and publish success stories
- Enhance platform and processes across TAP Partners

DISI refers to the practice of centralising and integrating HIV data in a data repository for further reporting, analysis and visualisation. DISI enables healthcare professionals to effectively measure and monitor the progression and outcome of HIV through CBS sentinel events. The project started on 1 October 2020 and to date Jembi has contributed to the completion of a rapid landscape assessment for 5 OPC countries, a set of functional and nonfunctional requirements and specifications, the design and development of a DISI Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for data centralisation with an analytics and visualitation component, along with a patient identity toolkit for patient matching, linkage and deduplication. The project also includes the Global Informatics Inititive (GIC) Sandbox which is a collaborative environment to assist country implementers in creating and hosting digital health solutions using artefacts created by the CDC HQ TAP mechanism.