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["Laura E. Lincks" <laura.lincks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A point of service in our world is sort of like a specialty treatment
center within a facility, a hospital, etc. pertaining to HIV Testing and
Counseling.  It could be as specific as "In-patient for Adult Males" or a
general "Outpatient" or it could be "Family Planning" or "VCT". I'm dealing
with 2 issues at the moment: addressing the immediate need of a specific
country for reporting this week and devising a consistent way to set up all
countries' POSs.

For the specific country issue we are setting them up as another
organisation unit level. We can change that later if need be, but we needed
a solution now. This country has very few POS types (2 or 3) and very few
sites with POS (14-15). We have been having some confusion with categories
for this country and are in the midst of cleaning some of that up so I
didn't want to add more categories.

I agree that if POSs are not consistent across all Org Units a data set
categoriy could cause potential confusion or data entry errors.

Creating POSs as Org Unit levels below facility level is how we do it in
our Universal system. Some of our countries use other sub-facility Org Unit
levels for other purposes in their DHIS instances and deal with POS in
other ways. Data set category is one way but they also have a form where
they just extract the data and assign it to the proper POS in other systems
if need be -- not very efficient. I'm trying to determine how best to apply
a consistent structure for a Universal configuration. For now we have mixed
solutions in place.

Does DHIS have a limit in regard to the number of Org Unit levels can be
set up?

*Laura E. Lincks*
Database Manager/Developer
ICAP - Columbia University
Mailman School of Public Health
60 Haven Ave, Floor B1
New York, NY 10032
Tel: 212 304 7132

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Laura,
>
> let me ask:
>
> - What are your "point of services" ?
> - How many?
> - Are the point of services consistent across all facilities, or are there
> lots of variation?
>
> If the point of services are few and consistent across most facilities I
> would use data set categories.
>
> If they differ a lot (most likely) I would use org units.
>
>
> regards,
>
> Lars
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Laura E. Lincks <
> laura.lincks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am interested in knowing how teams are setting up Point of Service
>> sites in DHIS.
>>
>> I have thought of a couple of ways to do so:
>>
>>
>>    - Create an Organisational Unit level (POS) underneath facility level
>>    which will collect Testing and Counseling data via a data set which is set
>>    up to only be accessible to Org Units at this POS level
>>
>>
>>    - Create a data set for Testing and Counseling data and add a Point
>>    of Service Category to it. Data will be added at the Facility level: data
>>    set, reporting period AND Point of Service Type would be selected prior to
>>    adding data on the data entry screen.
>>
>>
>> I imagine this is not an issue unique to us and am curious what others'
>> solutions are.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> *Laura E. Lincks*
>> Database Manager/Developer
>> ICAP - Columbia University
>> Mailman School of Public Health
>> 60 Haven Ave, Floor B1
>> New York, NY 10032
>> Tel: 212 304 7132
>>
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> University of Oslo
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