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[Crizelle Nel <crizellenel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your responses Bob, Knut and Johan.

I have not yet had the opportunity to properly discuss this development with
anyone (I just had a quick telephone call with Scott Merrit from BUTUSA
earlier in the week).

What I can tell you though is that the Tecnhical Work Group in Botswana
(which comprises of key staff from MoH, Local Government, I-Tech, BUTUSA and
more) is absolutely committed to the DHIS. The long-term plan in Botswana is
to interface all applicable systems (i.e. IPMS, ETR.Net, iHRIS etc.) with
the DHIS so that the DHIS acts as an integrator.

I have a meeting with Scott this afternoon and just wanted to gather as much
information as possible beforehand.

I'll be sure to obtain answers to the questions you posed and to get back to
you with Scott's responses.

Regards,
Crizelle
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
> >>
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> >>
> >>
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> --
> Cheers,
> Knut Staring
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