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[Saptarshi Purkayastha <sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Crizelle,

Just to add to what Bob mentioned about using HL7 Channel in MIRTH would not
 be of much use to DHIS because HL7 is primarily used to transfer individual
patient observations or patient data. In DHIS, we would like to receive the
aggregates of these observations and then import into DHIS. Although what
I've seen in some hospital settings where integration between different
systems is done using MIRTH, is that they use a tool called MIRTH Results.
In MIRTH Results, the individual HL7 is recieved, stored and aggregated
across longitudinally. This can be used as an intermediary to export to DHIS
2.

Just a suggestion on how I've seen people use MIRTH to aggregate stuff and
report. But MIRTH Results I believe is a somewhat expensive and might not be
something we want to suggest. I would like to see something open-source
doing that kind of work.

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Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA

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On 17 February 2011 06:06, Crizelle Nel <crizellenel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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