Webinar : ICD-11 Cause of Death App

We would like to invite you to our upcoming webinar where we discuss the new ICD-11 Cause of Death app.

The webinar is scheduled for:

Webinar Date: 2025-04-03T12:00:00Z2025-04-03T13:30:00Z

(note: the time above is being adjusted to your local time zone)

Register here

This app is a result of close collaboration with WHO and field testing with several Ministries of Health and HISP groups, and has been developed jointly between HISP Vietnam and HISP UiO.

It uses the international form of medical certificate of cause of death as its basis along with the ICD-11 coding system to codify deaths. It does this through the use of the DORIS (WHO Digital Open Rule Integrated Cause of Death Selection) API, allowing you to directly code your causes of death directly in DHIS2.

Some of the apps features include:

  • Seamless configuration. Install the app using existing tracker metadata from your own instance. If you don’t have any, it will set everything up for you.
  • Customizable data entry. Start with the international form of medical certificate of cause of death as your baseline and add sections or data elements as needed.
  • Full access to the ICD-11 coding system. This includes looking up each of the codes, viewing their chapters, and seeing their full definitions.
  • Use of the digital mortality rule engine. This allows you to use DORIS to automate the selection of your underlying cause of death.
  • Cause of death certificate generation. Generate a customized certificate for sharing death details.
  • Export to ANACoD3. Full export to ANACoD3 is available, allowing you to perform detailed analysis on your data.
  • Full translation support.

For a full overview of the features and functionality within this app, we invite you to our webinar where we will cover the features available in this app.

The app will be available on the DHIS2 app hub closer to the webinar date.

Thanks!

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We’ve had many community members asking about this app so I’m happy we have a webinar about this app because it’s definitely in use by many. Looking forward to it. Thanks!

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Sure,been long time coming

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Highly useful,right on time.Thanks @Shurajit_Dutta for sharing

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Great!

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Hello, the module is very interesting. We have been using it in our national instance for a year now. However, for 2 weeks, the coding system for ICD 11 codes has not been working. Do you have any suggestions regarding this issue ?

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Hi @Elise

The DORIS web service from WHO was having some issues, but it should be fixed now (at least I can not detect any more problems from my side and the coding system is working).

To reduce these potential disruptions, it may be of value to set up the DORIS and ICD-11 service on your own server if it is mission critical, but if you are connecting to the WHO server then you may see this downtime sometimes.

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Thank you, Indeed, the DORIS web service is back up and running, but we noticed that the maternal death section no longer appears for death certificates of women of childbearing age. Is there a link to the recent update or a way to resolve this issue?

@Shurajit_Dutta can you please provide the links to the DORIS and ICD-11 service in case we find we need to use it.

@Elmarie_Claasen

https://icd.who.int/doris/en
https://icd.who.int/icdapi

Hi @Shurajit_Dutta,
Great presentation and demo from you and @Thai. Fantastic App!

I think you mentioned that the presentation slides will be shared.
Do you mind sharing it with me please?
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Hi @Johan_Smith and everyone else, please find attached the 2 presentations from today. For those of you who signed up for the webinar, you will also receive them in your inbox.

The webinar recording can be accessed:

DHIS2 Cause of Death app - Installation & Troubleshooting.pptx (1.7 MB)
Introduction - DHIS2 Cause of Death App.pptx (6.7 MB)

Thanks!

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Hi @Elise it is not clear exactly what the issue is, though we have seen this before if the female option is not mapped correctly. Could you email myself and Thai with more details?

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Thanks a million!

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Thaknks @Shurajit_Dutta,
I am trying to do some cases using the app, but the DORIS web service is not working. I am using this URL: DHIS 2 Cause of death & Inpatient discharge during the search for ICD-11 coding tool is not reurning any results.
Please advise and let me know if there is another URL address can I use until the service is back.

Best regards,
Ayman