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 <bobjolli...@gmail.com> 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 <crizelle...@gmail.com> 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: crizelle...@gmail.com >> Cell: 084 580 3342 >> Fax: 0866 509 502 >> Web: http://www.hisp.org/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Cheers, Knut Staring _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
