CIEL

Jon Payne of OCL and Andy Kanter of CIEL have been working together since 2010 on making the CIEL dictionary as accessible as possible for eHealth or mHealth applications in LMIC.

This release of OCL makes it possible to subscribe to the CIEL dictionary through a users existing OpenMRS instance. With OCL’s subsetting and collaborative functionalities, this represents a major step forward in making the CIEL dictionary more customizable for users.

Columbia International eHealth Laboratory (CIEL)

The Columbia International eHealth Laboratory (CIEL) grew out of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to create an eHealth program at Columbia University. Originally a collaboration between the Mailman School of Public Health's Department of Epidemiology, the College of Physician and Surgeons' Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Earth Institute, this eHealth program fostered joint work around eHealth and mHealth projects in several low and middle income countries. Part of this joint work included development of a common health data dictionary (the CIEL/MVP dictionary) and a common eHealth platform (Millennium Villages Global Network) which are now maintained by CIEL. CIEL supports innovative eHealth and mHealth work by students, faculty and the global community, using standards-based and open source software and technologies.