DAC2026 Community Innovations: Weekly Roundup 2
Welcome to the second 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, we highlight how national systems are scaling to meet massive data demands in Ethiopia and Indonesia while maintaining data quality and system performance, how the community is addressing the intersection of climate and health in Bangladesh and Lao PDR, and how interoperability is being used to unify fragmented health data across Tanzania and Nigeria, and how innovations use AI and DHIS2 to improve data entry, scaling, and performance.
DHIS2 for Climate & Health
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Exploring how DHIS2 data is being leveraged to monitor and respond to climate-sensitive health outcomes.
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Heat–Health Monitoring Using Routine DHIS2 Data: “Building on over a decade of DHIS2 investment, the DHIS2–Open-Meteo integration transforms routine service data into near–real-time climate-health intelligence.” Digital Poster, click here to view the topic.
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Bridging mortality data gaps in Lao PDR using DHIS: Learn about the surveillance system in Lao PDR DHIS2 model which “[strengthens] mortality surveillance, [improves] cause of death data, and [advances] CRVS systems in resource-constrained settings.” Abstract track/lightning talk, click here to view the topic.
Scaling & Performance Optimization
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This section focuses on innovations designed to maintain high availability and optimize analytics for systems managing millions of records.
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Maximizing DHIS2 uptime, scaling beyond Hardware: Learn from Ethiopia’s one of the world’s largest DHIS2 implementations “holistic” scaling approach. Digital Poster, click here to view the topic.
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Orchestrating High-Volume Health Financing Analytics: Learn about Indonesia’s experience using DHIS2 for national health accounting to process massive datasets in under 30 minutes. Digital Poster, click here to view the topic.
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DHIS2 Tracker to Predictive Modelling using Fabric: The EpiC project’s new approach of Tracker to Aggregate “all data takes 16 minutes, allowing daily updates without impacting system performance.” Included a session, click here to view the topic.
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Supporting Positive Impacts with DHIS2
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Focusing on how routine data systems are being expanded to support mental health services and viral suppression goals.
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Liberia DHIS2 MNS Data for Decisions, Research: The integration of mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) data into Liberia’s national system to improve visibility and evidence-based planning. Included a session, click here to view the topic.
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Optimizing HIV Monitoring via VL Data, Bangladesh: Strengthening HIV monitoring by integrating viral load (VL) data into the DHIS2 based PLHIV Tracker in Bangladesh. Digital Poster, click here to view the topic.
Interoperability
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Innovations that use Interoperability and standardized metadata to unify fragmented registries and automate complex data workflows.
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DHIS2 Central Data Warehouse for Humanitarian Ops: How did the ICRC’s implementation overcome these challenges: medical and operational data were fragmented across electronic health records, parallel DHIS2 implementations, logistics systems, and manual reporting processes, causing reporting delays, data inconsistencies, limited real-time visibility, and poor scalability? Included a session, click here to view the topic.
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DHIS2–ETL Integration for National TB Reporting: The challenges and solutions Nigeria’s National TB had to consider when scaling TB reporting across more than 20,000 organization units “while ensuring data governance and quality.” Physical Poster, click here to view the topic.
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DHIS2-Enabled HRHIS for enhanced Health Workforce: “Transitioning from a custom, standalone HRHIS [Human Resources for Health Information Systems] to DHIS2 enabled sustainable scalability, richer analytics, and greater agility in responding to health-sector needs” Abstract track/lightning talk, click here to view the topic.
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From Fragmented Registers to Unified PHC: “a distributed digital solution for primary health services using DHIS2 tracker”, FHIR, metadata configurations, and custom apps to enable patient centric longitudinal tracking across decentralized systems. Physical Poster, click here to view the topic.
Operational, AI, and Data Entry Innovations
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Practical tools and field implementations aimed at improving the speed and quality of data capture at the point of care.
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SnapiForm: Practical AI to Eliminate Paper-to-DHIS: An AI-based solution that allows health workers to digitize paper forms into DHIS2 metadata via “computer vision and AI-based table and handwriting recognition”, significantly reducing manual transcription time. Abstract track/lightning talk, click here to view the topic.
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Extending DHIS2 Capture for CMO clinics: Enhancing the DHIS2 Android Capture App with SMS workflows and label printing to support high-volume pop-up medical clinics for the underserved people in U.S. communities. Abstract track/lightning talk, click here to view the topic.
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From Excel Chaos to Data-Driven MEL Using DHIS2: A case study on centralizing Maternal and Child Health monitoring from the use of a variety fragmented Excel, ODK and similar tools into using DHIS2 as the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) system. Digital Poster, 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. 