Welcome to the DHIS2 eRegistries Community. This is a space to discuss the use of Tracker to create an eRegistry. eRegistries differ from simple Tracker implementations in that they are designed specifically to capture structured data during a patient visit that can be used to:
- provide clinical decision support based on the WHO and national guidelines;
- create referral recommendations, with system tools for scheduling and notifying the receiving facility;
- create longitudinal health records, clearly alerting care providers of the patient’s health history and risks;
- generate targeted reminders to patients encouraging attendance, but also specific messages tailored for their unique health risks;
- generate working lists for care providers based on their patient population and areas of responsibility (e.g. a list of high risk patients requiring home visits; a list of pregnant women expected to deliver in the next month, etc.);
- remove the need for secondary data reporting or manual aggregation, as these same data points generate the necessary indicators for national programs, and feed into existing national HMIS systems;
- create an underlying health registry for various health areas, serving as a repository for analysis for research and decision making;
- populate supervision tools and provides performance feedback to care providers on areas for clinical improvement, using trend analysis and aggregate comparisons.
Resources:
- MCH eRegistry demo (eregistry.dhis2.org/demo)
- eRegistries.org
- eRegistries at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (https://www.fhi.no/en/qk/international/eregistries/)
- eRegistries: Electronic Registries for Maternal and Child Health (https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-016-0801-7)
- eRegistries: indicators for the WHO Essential Interventions for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-016-1049-y)
- eRegistries: governance for electronic maternal and child health registries (https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-016-1063-0)