Center Program: Global Health Informatics COPY

Empowering Global Health: Sustainable Digital Transformation with Regenstrief

The Regenstrief Institute Global Health Informatics (GHI) program is a specialized cadre of researchers, subject-matter experts, and technology practitioners from diverse backgrounds and cultures. We are committed to advancing global health equity by architecting ecosystems rooted in standards-based, architected, and artificial intelligence approaches. Our team does not merely implement technology; we leverage deep informatics expertise to ensure that digital health solutions are seamlessly integrated into clinical workflows and public health surveillance to drive data-driven healthcare and measurable health outcomes.

Through our “Informatics-as-a-Service” (IaaS) model, we provide on-demand strategic capacity to partners in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This value proposition is grounded in a philosophy of solidarity, moving beyond traditional vendor-client relationships to work as a unified force with those in resource-constrained environments. By combining sophisticated Health Information Technology (HIT) subject-matter expertise with pragmatic project management, we help worldwide colleagues operationalize strategies and open technologies—such as HL7 FHIR-based architectures—designed to thrive within local constraints.

Our Mission

To reduce health disparities for resource constrained communities through health information technologies.

Our Vision

A world where health information technology directly contributes to the sustained elimination of global health disparities.

Values

Community

We engage in global collaboration with people with diverse talents and backgrounds who are solving problems in health care.

Cultivates a robust ecosystem of cross-disciplinary experts capable of tackling multi-faceted health challenges.

Openness

Transparency and sharing are our guiding principles as we make our knowledge, resources, programs, and tools available to all.

Accelerates global innovation by reducing barriers to entry and preventing the “reinvention of the wheel” in digital health.

Humility

Those we serve are our teachers.

Ensures that technical architectures are grounded in the practical, clinical realities of the point-of-care environment.

Sustainability

Our stakeholders build local capacity as they develop, implement, and maintain effective health information systems.

Transitioning ownership to local partners ensures long-term system viability and reduces dependence on external aid.

Empowerment

We work with innovators outside and within underserved communities to eliminate health inequities.

Shifts the power dynamic toward local leadership, enabling communities to drive their own digital transformation.

Areas of Effort

Open Source Platforms

OpenMRS: Open Medical Records System

The mission of OpenMRS is to improve health care delivery in resource-constrained environments by coordinating a global community that creates a robust, scalable, user-driven, open source medical record system platform. Most deployments are run by independent groups who carry out the work on the ground with technical support and training provided by the collective OpenMRS community of contributors and implementers around the world.

The OpenMRS community has thousands of members in every part of the world. Each software release involved large numbers of these volunteers from all backgrounds.

Learn more about OpenMRS and how to get involved.

Implementation Science

AMPATH: Academic Model Providing Access to Heathcare

The mission of the AMPATH Informatics department is to provide effective and innovative information technology services to support and drive the ongoing mission of AMPATH in Western Kenya. GHI supports this mission in four key health domains: HIV care, Primary Healthcare, Maternal and Child Health, and Chronic Disease Management. Projects include:

Mobile Device Development & Support
Pharmacy Dispensing Event Tracking System
Forms Development
Data Quality/Analysis
Lab/EMR Interface
MOH/Program Report Design

Learn more about AMPATH projects happening in Kenya.

Health Information Architecture

OpenHIE: Open Health Information Exchange

The mission of OpenHIE is to improve the health of the underserved through the open, collaborative development and support of country driven, large scale health information sharing architectures. OpenHIE is a community of practice made up of diverse organizations and people that are working to meet the aspirational goal of improving health through the better use of information.

Multiple countries have begun to leverage or explore OpenHIE’s approaches, reference technologies, and community processes to support their real world use cases.

Learn more about OpenHIE, our architecture and how to get involved.