Interoperability

Having standardized data lists is useful for managing multiple systems. This could be for:

• development, testing and production servers of iHRIS
• district and national iHRIS systems in a decentralized iHRIS installation
• use by other systems that want to know what data lists are being used in iHRIS.
• exchange of data between systems

Standardized Lists

iHRIS Supports the following standardized lists:

• The ISCO-88 and ISCO-08, or International Standard Classification of Occupations, codes from the International Labor Organization
• ISO 3166 The standardized list of countries from ISO
• ISO 639 The standardized list of languages from ISO
• Sharing Value Sets (SVS) from Integrating the Health Enterprise(IHE) is a general mechanism for sharing standardized lists between systems

Supported Standards

• Care Services Discovery (CSD) for the exchange of health worker information, and in particular for supporting a health worker registry.
• SDMX-HD
• Sharing Value Sets (SVS) for standardized lists
• DXF2 (DHIS2 Exchange Format)
• DSML (Directory Services Markup Language)

Tutorials

• how to export standardized cadre data from a central site to be shared among regional and district installations.
• Strategies for Synchronizing iHRIS against a Master Facility List
• Linking iHRIS Facilities and DHIS Organizational Units
• How to Export Standard Data Using SVS (YouTube)
• How to Load an SVS list from a file
• How to Load an SVS from a remote service
• How to Load an iHRIS Database List into DHIS
• How to Export The Number of Healthworkers into DHIS
• Using SDMX-XD the Statistical Data and Meta-Data Exchange Format for the Health Domain

Note: There is an older document describing Data Interoperability, but it is out of date.