To complete development of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) implementation guidelines for Indonesia

As part one, important components of ANCS, building a highly interoperable system utilizing FHIR standard is the key. This system is also crucial to address emergent pandemic and nutrition needs, and maintain alignment with the deployment of new FHWs, and with the requirement for facilities and doctors to be directly engaged with a pregnant woman earlier in pregnancy, and to make the interoperability fully FHIR-based. The FHIR migration will also enable interoperability with all other app systems in the future. At the same time, we improve the capacity of health workers to utilize data for decision making processes via the new health worker training processes.

We note this initiative has received interest and support from the Digital Transformation Office (DTO) of the Ministry of Health (MoH), the National Family Planning Coordinating Agency (NFPCA), the the Ministry of Village, Development of Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration (MoVDDRT), and the Ministry of Education (MoE). The current SID collaboration with DTO also strengthens and accelerates the pathway to adopt the FHIR system in Indonesia, in order to enhance pregnancy and newborn care through joint team-based care that is well supported and connected with a highly interoperable FHW information system. This mutual collaboration between SID and DTO also strengthens the SID collaboration with HL7, the global body overseeing the FHIR standard.

Specifically, SID can facilitate more Indonesians to actively participate in attending FHIR courses through scholarships and to continue working collaboratively with partners and FHIR course alumni to build FHIR implementation guides for Indonesia and further expand the use of the guideline to other LMICs.

Action plans:

1. SID collaborates with HL7 International to provide 40 scholarships for Indonesians to attend 2-round FHIR Fundamentals Courses by December 2021

2. Involved 40 FHIR course alumni to be involved in FHIR Indonesia working group

Create working groups for developing FHIR implementation guide for Indonesia by January 2022

3. Piloting interoperable system in the context of ANC by utilizing team based care approaches in one of OpenSRP distincts in Indonesia, by December 2022

Provide evidence for a highly interoperable system in Indonesia utilizing the HL7 FHIR standard by publishing at least 1 paper and 1 scientific article by December 2022.

4. Develop a developer curriculum on FHIR Adaptation in Indonesia by December 2022.

5. Develop a non-developer curriculum on FHIR standard for global and local use by May 2022.