This community innovation has been accepted at the 2025 DHIS2 Annual Conference
Tracking Healthcare Worker Training using DHIS2
Background: LifeNet International is a nonprofit organization that collaborates with church-founded health facilities in 6 African countries: Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Ghana, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo to enhance healthcare staff capacity through centralized and onsite training in medical and management skills. Intervention: Moodle is an eLearning platform used for training healthcare workers in LifeNet’s centralized trainings and on-site mentorships. Healthcare workers register, enroll, and complete lessons on this platform. However, Moodle is just one of several data sources for LifeNet, which resulted in fragmented data and limited real-time use for program efficiency, accountability, and learning. To address this, LifeNet and its partners an OpenHexa, an open-source integration tool to integrate Moodle with the DHIS2 LifeNet created a centralized DHIS2 data warehouse storing data collected from Moodle eLearning platform. This enhances data access and improves program operations, accountability, and learning. Moodle is an eLearning that is used by LifeNet to register healthcare workers, and enrol them in medical and management learning curricula to enhance onjob skills to improve health outcomes of the patients they serve. OpenHexa, an open-source data integration platform that pipes Moodle data into the DHIS2 warehouse for storage, transformation and visualization. Impact: Through this innovation, 3,550 healthcare workers registered: Uganda (2,871), Kenya (271), Malawi (154), Burundi (26), and DRC (244). Of these, 2,652 enrolled in at least one lesson: Uganda (2,137), Kenya (167), Malawi (125), Burundi (26), and DRC (202). A total of 1,324 completed at least one lesson: Uganda (1,103), Kenya (114), Malawi (86), Burundi (1), and DRC (20).
Primary Author: Alex Alinaitwe
Keywords:
Healthcare Worker Training, DHIS2, Moodle, OpenHexa