Thanks for your responses Bob, Knut and Johan.
I have not yet had the opportunity to properly discuss this development with anyone (I just had a quick telephone call with Scott Merrit from BUTUSA earlier in the week).
What I can tell you though is that the Tecnhical Work Group in Botswana (which comprises of key staff from MoH, Local Government, I-Tech, BUTUSA and more) is absolutely committed to the DHIS. The long-term plan in Botswana is to interface all applicable systems (i.e. IPMS, ETR.Net, iHRIS etc.) with the DHIS so that the DHIS acts as an integrator.
I have a meeting with Scott this afternoon and just wanted to gather as much information as possible beforehand.
I’ll be sure to obtain answers to the questions you posed and to get back to you with Scott’s responses.
Regards,
Crizelle
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:
This was actually the approach taken by a team in South Africa in 2008
and early 2009 to link OpenMRS and DHIS2, though I don’t think it wasput in production.
Knut
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Bob Jolliffe bobjolliffe@gmail.com wrote:
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 negotiationMuch like telephone
switches between phone operators for that matter.
Regards
BobOn 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, youwould 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?
Regards,
Crizelle Nel
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