DAC2026 Community Innovations: Weekly Roundup 7
Welcome to the seventh Weekly Roundup of The DAC2026 Community Innovations. These roundups help you keep track of all the DHIS2 community innovations that have been accepted for the 2026 DHIS2 Annual Conference.
This week, the topics include diverse topics such as climate change adaptation in health mapping, real-time hospital alerts for emergency response, the digital transformation of national registers in Ethiopia, and cross-border interoperability for regional disease elimination.
Click here to view Climate & Health topics
- Climate resilient health service mapping via DHIS2: Lao PDR expanded HFML to function “not only as a registry, but also as an integrated platform supporting routine service monitoring, climate informed planning, and emergency response.” Included in C&H academy, click here to view the topic.
- [FR] Renforcement de la surveillance du choléra à l’ère: Cameroon integrated laboratory data into DHIS2 to strengthen cholera surveillance in the face of climate-driven flooding and water insecurity. Digital Poster, click here to view the topic.
- Unlocking Climate–Health Relationships with DHIS2: “his presentation discusses the DHIS2 Climate App, introduced in 2024, from a user perspective of just curiosity to profound insight and excitement!”. Digital Poster, click here to view the topic
Click here to view Advanced Surveillance & Interoperability topics
- Middleware-Based Interoperability for Surveillance: Sri Lanka’s implementation uses “a practical and sustainable middleware-based interoperability model for linking national morbidity statistics systems with DHIS2.” Physical Poster, click here to view the topic.
- Real-Time Hospital Disease Alerts Using DHIS2: “Natural disasters increase the risk of communicable disease transmission and place significant strain on routine surveillance systems, often resulting in delayed detection and response.” How does Sri Lanka address this significant challenge? Digital Poster, click here to view the topic.
- Senegal–Gambia Cross‑border Malaria Surveillance: A shared DHIS2 platform between neighboring countries, Senegal and The Gambia, to harmonize indicators and coordinate regional malaria elimination. Abstract track/lightning talk, click here to view the topic.
Click here to view Patient Care & Humanitarian Response topics
- DHIS2 Critical Incident Reporting for Safer Care: ICRC Developed and Implemented “a Critical Incident Reporting (CIR) solution on DHIS2 in ICRC-supported hospitals to enable secure, rapid, and standardized reporting of incidents and near-misses.” Included in a session, click here to view the topic.
- From DHIS2 Silos to Cross-Program Patient Journeys: MSF-France developed a data model that reconstructs “complete patient journeys by linking records from all services, so that each patient can be tracked from admission to discharge, and reliable indicators can be produced, while also highlighting data-quality issues.” Abstract track/lightning talk, click here to view the topic.
- MSF LIME: Rapid EMR Deployment in Humanitarian Set: MSF’s “integration seamlessly connects patient-level clinical data with aggregation tools, enabling data-driven decisions with up-to-date information flowing automatically from patient encounters to organizational dashboards.” Abstract track/lightning talk, click here to view the topic.
Click here to view Governance & Digital Transformation topics
- DHIS2 Governance Through Activity Monitoring: Learn about HISP Sri Lanka’s “custom DHIS2 Activity Monitor app based on requirements provided by the Maldives team” with features that improve “transparency and more timely follow-up for system management tasks.” Digital Poster, click here to view the topic.
- Ethiopia DHIS2 Maturity Assessment and Key Finding: In Ethiopia, a DHIS2 maturity assessment was conducted “to identify domains requiring interventions and to develop a prioritized list of DHIS2 related interventions.” Digital Poster, click here to view the topic.
- e-Register: Leveraging DHIS2 Tracker to Modernize Ethiopia’s National HMIS: Learn about Ethiopia’s digital transformation in replacing paper registers by e-Register significantly reducing costs and improving data quality. Included in a session, click here to view the topic.
- Healthcare impact of the Survive to Thrive program: Utilizing DHIS2 for WASH program evaluation in Zambia. Abstract track/lightning talk, click here to view the topic.
Join the Discussion
We hope that this roundup gave you a quick overview and encouraged you to explore the full topic posts linked above to gain deeper insights into the gigantic collaborative effort and science that is poured into these community projects.
Join the conversation: We encourage you to click on the topics above that interest you, reply with your comments, and share your own experiences. Most importantly, remember to register for the 2026 DHIS2 Annual Conference to see these innovations presented in person. 