{"id":3949,"date":"2020-10-05T15:01:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T15:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2020-10-19T07:40:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T07:40:22","slug":"the-first-ever-international-digital-dhis2-conference-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/?p=3949","title":{"rendered":"ROM participates in the first-ever International Digital DHIS2 Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/dhis-2020-1024x663.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/dhis-2020-1024x663.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/dhis-2020-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/dhis-2020-768x497.png 768w, https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/dhis-2020.png 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Dereck Musooka, &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, Reach Out Mbuya Community Health Initiative (ROM) was represented at the first Digital District Health Information System version2 (DHIS2) Annual Conference organized by the Department of Informatics-University of Oslo, Norway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year more than ever, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the conference\u2018s primary goal was to bring together practitioners, partners, and donors all over the world under one virtual platform, to showcase innovative utilization of DHIS2.&nbsp; In attendance, the five-day conference had over 1300 participants from over 200 Organisations and 57 Ministries of Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DHIS2 is a system used by country Ministries of Health including; Uganda for disease surveillance, reporting, and analysis of health information. In Uganda, the system is actively used in over 5418 hospitals and health centers.&nbsp; The system has simplified analysis and reporting from the tedious manual to the auto-generated digital approach of capturing and reporting health information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reach Out Mbuya Community Health Initiative is intensively upscaling its Health Information Systems for example; ROM was the pathfinder of Point of Care Uganda Electronic Medical Records (UgandaEMR) and other Community Client Service Applications. The purpose is to improve the quality of service offered to a client. In terms of efficiency, time-saving, client follow up, client linkage, client adherence, and retention on treatment. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dereck Musooka, &nbsp; Last week, Reach Out Mbuya Community Health Initiative (ROM) was represented at the first Digital District Health Information System version2 (DHIS2) Annual Conference organized by the Department of Informatics-University of Oslo, Norway. This year more than ever, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the conference\u2018s primary goal was to bring together practitioners, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}