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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

This was actually the approach taken by a team in South Africa in 2008
and early 2009 to link OpenMRS and DHIS2, though I don't think it was
put in production.

Knut

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> HL7 is for patient data so we shouldn't need to interface directly
> with it.  Possibly they are considering building an aggregation filter
> in Mirth to produce something like SDMX from the patient data.   Don't
> know.  I am not there to negotiate.
>
> But you need to negotiate hard (on your side of the fence) to ensure
> that what comes out of this magic box will be suitable for dhis2
> consumption.  That is the way with these kind of switches .. in the
> end they are proxies for human negotiation :-)  Much like telephone
> switches between phone operators for that matter.
>
> Regards
> Bob
>
> On 16 February 2011 21:22, Crizelle Nel <crizellenel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> In Botswana they are discussing developing a software tool (MIRTH) to act as
>> a switchboard between all health systems. For example if you want to export
>> data from their patient-based system (IPMS) to the DHIS 2 for example, you
>> would use the MIRTH interface to do it. It essentially acts as a
>> post-office, simply passing the data between different systems.
>>
>> They would like to use HL7 for MIRTH.
>>
>> Have any of you done something similar in other countries?
>>
>> Has anyone used HL7 before?
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Crizelle Nel
>> Health Information Systems Programme (HISP) Software Development Team
>>
>> Email:  crizellenel@xxxxxxxxx
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>>
>>
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Cheers,
Knut Staring