We are currently implementing a breast cancer program across four regions in our country. At present, there is no established mechanism to track clients who have been confirmed with breast cancer. As part of our program, we aim to introduce a system to monitor these clients throughout their treatment and follow-up visits.
We are considering using the DHIS2 Tracker for this purpose, but we are unsure how to set it up effectively for longitudinal tracking of patients.
Could anyone kindly guide us on how to approach this? Any documentation, examples, or advice would be greatly appreciated.
DHIS2 Tracker is a great choice for your use case and there’s tons of real world implementations shared in the community that you can check out. You could actually check out the sessions related to tracker in this upcoming DHIS2 Annual Conference: dac2025.dhis2.org
For learning more about implementing a project yourself, I would recommend starting with these resources:
You’ve taken the first best step which is to connect with the global community. I recommend to continue posting here in the community with updates and questions as well as check out what other implementers, users, and learners are posting so you are always ahead of an issue and to reinforce your knowledge.
Thank you so much for the warm welcome and the helpful resources! I truly appreciate your guidance.
I’ll definitely explore the Tracker sessions in the upcoming DHIS2 Annual Conference—looks like a great opportunity to learn from real-world implementations. Also, thanks for pointing me to the documentation and Learning Paths tool. These will be very helpful as I get started.
Regarding the category I posted in (“Implementation - Implémentation > Interoperability”), that was actually by mistake—thanks for catching that!
Looking forward to learning and engaging more with the DHIS2 community.
Great to see you find these resources helpful, and we have many active and help community members here from Tanzania whom you might connect with in the community as you move forward in your DHIS2 journey.
Thanks @Gassim for sharing the metadata package links. I’m on that team and want to share a few more resources.
The 2022 Annual Conference featured several implementations of DHIS2 for NCDs, including two on cancer case trackers which may be of interest. This presentation included:
In Peru, a tracker for Breast Cancer Patients in Trujillo which you can read more on here.
In Rwanda, a cancer registry program in DHIS2 was developed and deployed, including an custom app to export these data into CanReg5 format for further analysis. In collaboration with CARPHA and IARC, Jamaica has recently adapted this same oncology module for reporting to their national cancer registry.
Other countries have independently developed cancer case registers in DHIS2, including Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Maldives, the last of which will present at the upcoming Annual Conference. HISP UiO are now in the process of working with WHO-IARC to analyze the common business requirements of these systems, to hopefully develop an implementation toolkit for cancer registries.
If you would like we can have a short call to review the available resources which may be a useful starting point for your project in Tanzania. Ive sent you a DM with my email.
