Now published: EMR-DHIS2 integration survey report

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Dear DHIS2 Community,

In order to better understand how countries and implementations are using EMRs and how we at DHIS2 can better support interoperability with external EMRs, we recently conducted a survey on EMR usage and integrations. We’re very pleased with the responses we got, and a report on the results is now available, linked below!

The survey had two types: a longer form, which we used in direct interviews with developers and implementers in HISP groups; and a shorter form, which we shared widely with the broader DHIS2 community - you can find the announcement on the CoP here. Those who participated were granted an “Insight Contributor” CoP badge for their time. :tada:

The responses we got gave us very valuable insights into what EMRs are commonly used (including DHIS2 Tracker programs as lightweight EMRs), how implementations are performing integrations, what has been successful or not, and what aspirations there are for future developments. With this information, we get a much clearer picture of what we can do to support EMR-DHIS2 integrations, for example reference implementations that match common usage patterns and demonstrate cases that implementations intend to deploy in the future.

We’ve written up a report of our findings and next steps, which can be found in its full form here, and a summary can be found in the blog post here.

We want to share this information back with the community, since it can be helpful to compare notes on what other implementations are doing and perhaps share inspiration.

Thanks to everyone who participated!

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