Thank you everyone who joined our February 2025 Round-up, I am sharing here the recording to help you recap what was presented and below are summarized notes from the call.
Agenda 1: Community Story presentation about Community Based Chronic Disease Care in Lesotho.
Agenda 2. The creative use of CHT extension libraries to configure form custom functionalities.
The SwissTPH team recently faced a challenge when configuring form styles in choices. The team had a scenario where they needed to highlight the differences between two drug doses to help ensure that the right dosages are prescribed to patients by health care workers. The team explored two options, they had to either fork CHT and change CSS or use CHT extension libraries which would help them to dynamically use javascript to get custom functionalities. The team used the 2nd option, they created a small extension libraries named hack.js which helped them to hack the user interface, the code is currently available for anyone to use. For this hack, the team used simple functions that accepts two elements (attributes). The extension libraries will replace the elements with the given HTML at runtime. Users can’t see this change in the xls form but once you render it, it replaces select option with the html form that is provided. Please read the full write up for full information. Thank you @rukshan for the great presentation and for taking time to share the creative use of Extension Libraries with the CHT community.
Agenda 3- OpenFn introduction and CHT-DHIS2 interoperability Community Squad.
OpenFn is the leading Digital Public Good that is optimized to support governments and NGOs to achieve SDG goals by automating data exchange, business processes and integrating technologies within the ecosystem. To date, the OpenFn team has managed to run about 3M workflows per year and they are handling over 40 million records across 40+ countries. The platform can integrate with any app as long as it has the API, automate critical business processes, ochrestrate workflows to run across organizations and monitor workflow automation. The workflows are easy to share, once you write your workflow on OpenFn, you have ability to sync the workflow to the OpenFn Github.
The OpenFn Team is currently working with the CHT Community to build an adaptor that supports interoperability between CHT and DHIS2. For this use case, the OpenFn platform receives a request from CHT after a form submission, transforms the data (mapping), once the mapping is completed, the event is created on DHIS2. You can read more information on CHT-DHIS2 community squad collaboration here.
We hope to see you again at the next Round-up on March 13, 2025.