DHIS2 nomenclature

Dear friends,

I hope this doesn't sound too ridiculous for this forum: we had a (very primordial) seminar on the Nigeria's HMIS, and attendees asked why the DHIS2 acronym has the D for district, in spite of the fact that we are using LGAs as administrative units in Nigeria. I replied that DHIS2 is a global open access software, and consistency requires that the name is uniform, even though what constitutes a "district" can vary between different places.

Kindly I don't know if I can have additional insights on this.

Muktar

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The acronym DHIS has become a bit like IBM - growing out of a historical role at district level in South Africa back in the nineties, into a much broader platform twenty years later.

It is used at all levels, including village communities and global. Also used extensively outside of the health sector.

So I just refer to it as dhis2 without spelling it out.

Knut

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On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Muktar Gadanya gadanya@gmail.com wrote:

Dear friends,

I hope this doesn’t sound too ridiculous for this forum: we had a (very primordial) seminar on the Nigeria’s HMIS, and attendees asked why the DHIS2 acronym has the D for district, in spite of the fact that we are using LGAs as administrative units in Nigeria. I replied that DHIS2 is a global open access software, and consistency requires that the name is uniform, even though what constitutes a “district” can vary between different places.

Kindly I don’t know if I can have additional insights on this.

Muktar

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Knut Staring

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Dear Muktar,

A good one “IBM”, this has been a question everywhere its implemented worse in the non health sector like eduction … where Health in it has no relationship with the application.

Its recommended that users/implementers just treat DHIS2 as a platform and baptise the the implementation with the relevant name like Nigeria National Electronic Health Information System or eHMIS in some cases. We land into trouble we keep referring to it as DHIS2 as opposed to what information is collected, stored and analyzed.

Take an example of application/systems developed using MS ACCESS but you will not hear MIS ACCESS when describing such systems.

Nigeria should hold a baptism ceremony soon (:slight_smile:

Regards

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On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Muktar Gadanya gadanya@gmail.com wrote:

Dear friends,

I hope this doesn’t sound too ridiculous for this forum: we had a (very primordial) seminar on the Nigeria’s HMIS, and attendees asked why the DHIS2 acronym has the D for district, in spite of the fact that we are using LGAs as administrative units in Nigeria. I replied that DHIS2 is a global open access software, and consistency requires that the name is uniform, even though what constitutes a “district” can vary between different places.

Kindly I don’t know if I can have additional insights on this.

Muktar

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Prosper Behumbiize, MPH
Global HISP| University Of Oslo/HISP Uganda
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