Can DHIS2 be used as an eMPI?

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As the title says, can DHIS2 be used as a national eMPI issuing unique patient id’s.

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Hi @DigitalDocJM

Welcome to the DHIS2 Community!

I believe it depends on your requirements and needs. The eMPIs systems seem to offer features for specific use case; however, it’s not impossible to use DHIS2 to issue unique patient id’s.

Although it’s not exactly the same question, I think this conversation will give you more insight: DHIS2 can be use as a Hospital business system?

Thanks!

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Can it be used as a patient register, to log government Identifiers for an individual and issue a unique number. It would not be linked to other systems.

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DHIS2 is not specifically designed to be a master patient index. That said, it contains much of the functionality that would be needed:

  • Create a unique profile for an individual based on country-defined fields
  • Generate a unique system ID
  • Generate a unique user-facing ID based on country-defined algorithm
  • Use a single ID across programs and systems
  • 1:1 search and match through both exact matching and referential matching
  • Identify potential duplicates through person matching

Some key areas where DHIS2 lacks functionality as an eMPI include:

  • Resolving potential duplicates through merging (under development)
  • Overview of all programs and systems where a person is enrolled (under discussion)
  • Analytics across programs for a single person (under development)

There are various countries where the DHIS2 system has become the defacto most complete MPI, particularly after the surge in use of Tracker during the Covid-19 epidemic. Some countries are using these national scale systems to move to using DHIS2 as the eMPI.

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