* I am playing with various names for the group. Information Services, Informatics Core, Informatics Services Core. I'll figure this one out before too long and then things will be consistent going forward. It is my second day, so go easy on me.
This week and probably over the next couple will be my educational period, I am and will be getting exposed to various elements of AMPATH as well as getting a full understanding of scope of the Informatics work. All this information will go into building a strategic plan that will serve as an initial guide for the future of the ISC.
I want the plan to accurately reflect the current state of things and capture the future direction that AMPATH is taking (moving towards primary care delivery). These things are pretty straight-forward. The plan will also make some recommendations and set forth a roadmap for the next two to five years. I understand that things change and so the roadmap should not be seen as set in concrete.
The strategic plan is just the first part and really as I think about it, a small part of what is really going to happen. There are a large number of changes that will be coming soon after this plan is accepted and this is when the real work will begin.*
* When I decided on taking this job, I did so because I thought I would still have the opportunity to get my hands dirty doing some traditional 'techie' work. As I sit here tonight, I'm not sure if I'll have the opportunity to do any such 'techie' work. Maybe I'll be able to set up a home network.
We started today just white boarding the work that is being done at the AMPATH center in Eldoret and by the end of the exercise, the white board was pretty crowed. We still need to do something similar for the outlying centers and clinics. Like yesterday, there is a lot of information to take in, organize and make sense of. The team needs to keep teaching me and I need to keep focused and learning.*
* I like writing notes in quad ruled composition books. They're the right size for this sort of thing and the quad rule pages make it easy for the talentless artist in me to sketch out diagrams. Sadly, I never got the chance to get to the university bookstore to pick up a bunch of these books before leaving the US. I need to hunt for them around Eldoret.
I think before too long, I'm going to need to get away for a day or to just to sort everything out and be in a position to take the next steps.
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