Bluesquare is pleased to announce that OpenHEXA has joined the DHIS2 Technology Partners Program as a “Tier 2” Strategic Partner.
OpenHEXA is Bluesquare’s open-source data integration and analysis platform, built to help health organisations extract, process, and share data from systems like DHIS2 in a secure and automated way. It has been developed and deployed alongside DHIS2 across more than a dozen real-world projects, working directly with ministries of health, national public health institutes, and implementing organisations. The platform is a recognized Digital Public Good.
We highly value this formal recognition as a complementary platform to DHIS2, and see this new partnership as an opportunity to strengthen our collaboration with the DHIS2 community and with the other technology partners, to promote mutual learning and sharing of insights, and to act as a common voice influencing Digital Public Infrastructure discussions and initiatives.
DHIS2 and its Technology Partners Program
DHIS2 is the world’s most widely used open source health information platform, deployed in over 100 countries and used by many ministries of health, UN agencies, and implementing organisations to collect, manage, and analyse routine health data. Developed at the University of Oslo, it has become the backbone of national health information systems across Africa and Asia, and is increasingly used in other sectors such as education.
As DHIS2 adoption has grown, so has the ecosystem of complementary tools that work alongside it. To help ministries and their partners navigate this landscape, the University of Oslo’s HISP Centre launched the Technology Partners Program — a vetted list of platforms with active integrations with DHIS2.
OpenHEXA as a DHIS2 Technology Partner
In the context of DHIS2, OpenHEXA addresses a common operational challenge: sharing data from a national Health Management Information System (HMIS) with external partners in a structured, secure, and automated way.
A typical workflow looks like this. An HMIS manager defines an automated extraction pipeline in OpenHEXA, pulling routine data directly from DHIS2. Before the data is shared, OpenHEXA runs quality checks, anonymisation, and formatting. The cleaned dataset is then automatically pushed to the workspaces of authorised analysts or external BI tools, typically to perform advanced analytics and data visualisation purposes. Because OpenHEXA can be hosted on a country’s own servers, data does not leave national infrastructure before it is ready to be shared.
Real-world deployments
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, OpenHEXA serves as the data integration platform for the National Public Health Institute, centralising DHIS2 routine data alongside Mpox surveillance data and climate data for outbreak monitoring.
In Burundi, OpenHEXA automates the data flow between the country’s DHIS2 Disease Surveillance Tracker and the national HMIS, ensuring coherence between individual case surveillance and aggregated reporting.
In Ivory Coast, it functions as core data integration infrastructure for the Ministry of Health, harmonising DHIS2 data with the Performance-Based Financing system for data triangulation across programmes.
Across Burkina Faso, Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, DRC, Mali and Niger, OpenHEXA powers the National Malaria Data Repositories, integrating DHIS2 data with malaria surveillance, climate, supply chain, campaign and other key malaria data to support subnational national malaria programs with data-driven decision making.
More details on the integration are available on the DHIS2 website: dhis2.org/technology-partners/openhexa
Want to explore OpenHEXA for your DHIS2 setup? Contact us and we will be in touch.
