FHIR Support for Aggregate Data Exchange?

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Hi DHIS2 Community,
Folks in our OpenMRS Community are wondering if some of the recent FHIR-support work happening in DHIS2 includes support for aggregate data exchange.

Could anyone direct us to documentation or info about FHIR-based aggregate data sharing to DHIS2 systems?

Thank you so much in advance! :folded_hands: :bouquet:

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Hello Grace

HISP Zimbabwe worked on a standardized way of representing a DHIS2 DataSet as a FHIR Questionnaire two years back. I remember Clifford was going to demonstrate at openHIE back in Malawi, but was a little shy :slight_smile: . I think the main innovation being to use nested items to represent disaggregation.
I dont know if anyone is using it, but I’ll ask them to come and comment on this post. I am glad you are thinking of using a Questionnare for this as personally I think the mapping makes more sense than mADX style Measure/MeasureReport.

(and thanks for highlighting the need to provide some documentation on this area of aggregate data)

Regards
Bob

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Hi Grace and Bob

We worked on a proof of concept that aimed to create a FHIR Implementation Guide from a DHIS2 instance by generating intermediate FSH representation. In the process we tried to map concepts between FHIR and DHIS2 which would allow for easier transfer of actual data. One of those mapping involved converting a DHIS2 DataSet into a FHIR Questionnaire. this would the facilitate data transfer between FHIR Questionnaire Response to DHIS2 Data Values. Which would allow the capturing of aggregate data.

We were able to generate some of the resources require by FHIR Implementation Guide including Questionnaires. We did not proceed much further that that due to other commitments.

A link to the GitHub repo GitHub - ITINordic/dhis2-ig-gen: DHIS2 FHIR Implementation Guide generator

Regards,
Clifford

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