Integration with DHIS

This page is intended as a planning document for integration of iHRIS Manage with DHIS.

Technical Documentation for DHIS 2.0

Some information on the Database structure in DHIS 2.0.

Possibilities for Integration

It might be useful to start looking at iHRIS's ability to export data to XML. We could then possibly write some xslt transformations to transform that into something more easily consumable by DHIS2. Currently this would likely be our "native" DXF format but there are a number of reasons why we might consider evolving from there:

• some of our internal discussion around the native dxf format is here:
  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/dxf-format
• we wish to consider supportting SDMX HD (the new generation IXF) being promoted by WHO. Its intent is primarily to support the exchange of statistical data and metadata between (international) organizations it seems not as well optimized for the movement of bulk data on a routine basis as our current format.

These are two ways this could evolve:

• you export what you export "naturally"; we import what we import

naturally and we try to build the bridge with xslt. (preferred)

• you export SDMX HD and we import SDMX HD.