Recording of Closure of the VHL Virtual Meeting

Summary – Objectives of the Working Groups (WGs) 1, 2 and 3, of the VHL6 and background documents

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The working group Management and Collaboration Network (WG1) aims to discuss VHL strategic management and collaboration networks issues. To enable the participants to create mobilization in the development of health and information policies and to identify actions that may contribute to the recommendations resulting from BVS Encuentros 2011 and contextualized in eHealth Strategy and Plan of Action (2012-2017).

contribuir com as recomendações resultantes do BVS Encuentros 2011  e contextualizadas na Estrategia y Plan de Acción sobre e Salud (2012-2017) para a Região da AL&C.

Discussion topics

• Construction of national and thematic networks;
• Development of information and health policies;
• Political support National political and institutional support to the VHL and technical cooperation of PAHO and other international agencies;
• Function of Advisory Committees;
• Sustainability of VHL ;

Audience

The target of this working group are VHL coordinators, health institutions managers, information and health policy makers andries and other professionals who identify with the themes of discussion.

Languages

The official language of the meetings is Spanish.

Presentation and Recording of the third meeting of WG1

WG1 Management and Collaboration Network – Meeting of September 4th, 2012

Presentation and Recording of the second meeting of WG1

WG1 Management and Collaboration Network – Meeting of August 14th, 2012

Presentation and recording of the First Meeting of WG1 – August 15th, 201

The objective of Working Group Products and Services (WG2) is to promote a debate about the products and information services of the VHL that contribute to the access and the use of scientific and technical information at all levels of health (management, research, education and care). The discussions will be based on the recommendations resulting from the BVS Encuentros 2011 and contextualized in eHealth Strategy and Plan of Action (2012-2017) for the LA&C Region

Specific objectives

• To systematize the main identified challenges related to the quality of the products and services of the VHL;
• To characterize the identified challenges – causes, consequences, context, indicators;
• To propose ways of implementing the priority solutions, taking into account the participation of the Network;
• To identify and prioritize solutions to meet the challenges.

Participants

The audience of this GT2 are the professionals responsible for the construction and operation of the VHL and sources of information in countries and institutions, and other professionals who identify themselves with the theme being discussed.

 Language

The official language of the GT2 is Spanish.

Presentation – Final Meeting October 02, 2012

WG2 Products and Services – Meeting of September 26th, 2012

Presentation and Recording of the third meeting of WG2

WG2 Products and Services – Meeting of September 5th, 2012

Presentation and Recording of the second meeting of WG2

WG2 Products and Services – Meeting of August 15th, 2012

Presentation and recording of the First Meeting of WG2 – August 15th, 2012

The III Network of Developers and Work Group Technology meeting aims

• Strengthen the network of developers and technical staff from VHL and associated networks;
• Promote the upgrading and innovation of scientific and technical information products and services of the VHL and its associated networks collaboratively;
• Respond to recommendations of BVS Encuentros 2011 as well as the implementations challenges  related to the eHealth Strategy and Plan of Action (2012-2017).

Specific objectives 

• Identify, prioritize and implement actions that can contribute to overcome the problems identified on the evaluations and recommendations from VHL Meetings, available onhttp://bvsencuentros2011.bireme.org/?page_id=499;
• Promote the continuously development of interoperability among information sources and flows from the VHL and associated networks, as well as the accessibility and mobility of their interfaces;
• Establish the use and dissemination of standards, process and tools of collaborative and participative work for the developers from VHL and associated networks.
• Mobilize people, groups and institutions to participate in the collaborative development of information products and services from the VHL and associated networks.

Discussion topics

The following topics will be discussed according to the defined objectives and expected results of the meeting, including the recommendations from VHL Meetings 2011.

1. Content Management Systems
2. NoSQL
3. Search engines and VHL content indexing
4. Interoperability among information sources and flows from VHL and associated networks
5. Digital repositories, open data and digitalization
6. Library automation
7. Data mining and text mining
8. Accessibility
9. SaaS (Software as a Service) e IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
10. Governance, portal, open source and RedDes communication channels

 Audience

The target audience is IT professionals who use and collaborate on the development of technological and methodological solutions for VHL and associated networks. It is also welcome professionals from other knowledge areas with interest of participating on these discussions to collaborate with vision of analysis of current situation and proposals of solutions.

Language

The official language of the meetings will be Spanish. However, there may be participants speaking in Portuguese or English without simultaneously translation.

Agenda, presentation and recording of meetings of the WG3