Hi, a quick update from SA:
HISP SA will in the new year start implementing DHIS 2 within the Botswana ministry of health. According to the time-table a workshop will be held in the second week of January and a pilot/test implementation should be running by end of January. Customization of the software, meta-data, data entry forms and reports in addition to training of administrators, managers and users will take place over a 6-month period starting from January, followed by a lower level of support for 12 months.
Botswana has relatively few “orgunits” and only 3 levels in the hierarchy. The plan is to use a single on-line server running DHIS 2 including GIS at the national level. Some facilities have had DHIS 1.4 installed for some time and the transition for those will be done gradually.
Generally the latest inventions of DHIS 2 has been well received. A lighter/more static version of the multi-dimensional model is proposed to be included in DHIS 1.4. The upcoming SDMX/OpenMRS integration which we hopefully can pull off soon is needed. I have not yet had time to demonstrate the patient/community functionality but will do so soon.
HISP AS has appointed Crizelle Nel to be the DHIS 2 resource person i SA. We have already had very constructive sessions with training and comparisons of the two systems with regard to functionality, and she’s picking up the new ways of doing things in DHIS 2 very quickly. She will definitely be a very valuable person in the process of “conveying” DHIS 2 to HISP SA.
As a result we have identified functionality which should be “ported” and included in DHIS 2, as well as functionality which could be “ported” the other way around. I have copied in links to blueprints for those interested below. Additionally, there are lots of minor improvements under way which didn’t make it into blueprints, some of these have admittedly been discussed before. Also, some functionality in 1.4 is not relevant to 2.0 due to different approaches in some areas. The ambition is to reduce the “gap” between the two applications to a minimum by the end of January.
cheers, Lars
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/eliminate-duplicate-data-values
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/merge-organisation-unit-data
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/zero-is-insignificant-dataelement-attribute
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/improve-dataentry-history-popup
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/minmax-outlier-in-dataentry-validation
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/progress-indicators
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/follow-up-on-data-values
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/archiving-data
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/catchment-population-generation
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/gap-analysis