HL7 is for patient data so we shouldn't need to interface directly
with it. Possibly they are considering building an aggregation filter
in Mirth to produce something like SDMX from the patient data. Don't
know. I am not there to negotiate.
But you need to negotiate hard (on your side of the fence) to ensure
that what comes out of this magic box will be suitable for dhis2
consumption. That is the way with these kind of switches .. in the
end they are proxies for human negotiation 
Much like telephone
switches between phone operators for that matter.
Regards
Bob
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On 16 February 2011 21:22, Crizelle Nel <crizellenel@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,
In Botswana they are discussing developing a software tool (MIRTH) to act as
a switchboard between all health systems. For example if you want to export
data from their patient-based system (IPMS) to the DHIS 2 for example, you
would use the MIRTH interface to do it. It essentially acts as a
post-office, simply passing the data between different systems.They would like to use HL7 for MIRTH.
Have any of you done something similar in other countries?
Has anyone used HL7 before?
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Regards,
Crizelle Nel
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