1. Standards based interoperability with SDMX-HD
6 April 2011
Hoi An, Vietnam

2. What problems are we trying to solve?
Varying definitions from multiple guidelines documents.
Interoperability in an heterogeneous environment.
WHO Indicator and Measurement Registry (IMR)
SDMX-HD

3. Interoperability

7. Web Service

8. SDMX-HD: Statisitical Data and Metadata eXchange format
– for the Health Domain
Developed by WHO and partners to facilitate exchange of
indicator definitions and data in aggregate data systems.

10. SDMX-HD Use WHO Indicator and Measurement Registry (IMR)
Monitoring and Evaluation
District Health Information System (DHIS2)
Country Response Information System (CRIS PEPFAR proposed)
Clinical
OpenMRS
EpiS3 (OpenEHR)
OSHIP
Human Resources - iHRIS
Logistics - OpenLMIS
Lab - OpenELIS

11. Example of SDMX-HD use for integration
Vision for HIS Interoperability AE

12. # Of health workers disaggregated by facility, cadre,
PHU6 Report (Sample)
# Of health workers disaggregated by facility, cadre,
and whether or not they are on salary
Not intended for human consumption

13. iHRIS imports codelists from SDMX-HD DSD files, mapped to
iHRIS and SDMX-HD
iHRIS imports codelists from SDMX-HD DSD files, mapped to
SimpleList using the SDMX-HD form storage mechanism:
</configurationGroup>

14. Mapping Codelists
Codelists should be mapped to existing data
</configuraitonGroup>

15. Cross Section Data Export
iHRIS has a built-in (though meaningless) XML export format.
Any view of a report can be associated with one or more XSLT.
You can choose to export XML after applying XSLT.
In particular, XSLT to transform into SDMX Cross-Sectional Data.

16. Resultant SMDX-HD Export

18. Indicators and Dimensions

19. Mapping the indicator

20. Enterprise architecture: 3 Levels
Level 1: Information
Needs, Users, Usage
Across Organisations
“Business level”
Level 2:
Software applications
& Information Systems
“Application level”
Level 3: “Data exchange level”
“Technical level”
Interoperability & standards, technical
infrastructure
Institutional use of information
Patient
records
DHIS
Data warehouse
Aggregate data
iHRIS
Open
MRS
Applications supporting use
of information
Data & indicator standards
SDMX-HD
Facility list
SDMX-HD
Data Standards and infrastructure supporting the applications

21. Links WHO Indicator and Measurement Registry
Public:
Global Health Observatory:
SDMX: ,

22. Thanks! Special thanks for valuable input:
Patrick Whitaker, Chris Seebregts, Carl Leitner