OpenHEXA is an open-source data analysis & integration platform for public health projects. It has been built to facilitate the analysis and processing of data (and health data in particular) coming from different sources. It allows users to:
- Explore data coming from a variety of sources
- Schedule data pipelines for extraction & transformation operations
- Perform collaborative data analysis in interactive code notebooks
- Easily connect their data to third-party visualization tools
OpenHEXA also provides flexible access control capabilities: administrators have the possibility to control who can access a specific data source and what operations can be performed on it.
The platform has been designed to be open (easily extensible) and affordable.
Our primary users are health data professionals :
- Decision-makers in ministries of health
- Data specialists in ministries of health
- Data scientists, data analysts, and academic researchers
OpenHEXA is used in nine countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The majority of our users today are members of ministries of health at the central level who use OpenHEXA to analyse routine results. They are mostly M&E specialists and data managers. In some countries where OpenHEXA is deployed, data integrated by OpenHEXA is visualized at the health district level (for example, the routine Malaria data in the Democratic Republic of Congo). The use of OpenHEXA now extends to international partners such as NGOs and academic research teams, such as UNICEF, the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, or the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute.
Software Application
MIT
D2 | D2 Data interchange and interoperability
D6 | D6 Health management information systems (HMIS)
D7 | D7 Knowledge management systems
B5 | B5 Learning and training systems
B6 | B6 Logistics management information systems (LMIS)
E2 | E2 Public health and disease surveillance system
B8 | B8 Research information systems
N/A
Interoperability Layer
All maturity model assessments are self-reported by the funded organization leading the software development of the global good.
https://github.com/BLSQ/openhexa/wiki/Installation-instructions
Architectural Documentation URLhttps://github.com/BLSQ/openhexa
Issue Tracking URLhttps://github.com/BLSQ/openhexa/issues
Troubleshooting URLhttps://github.com/BLSQ/openhexa/wiki/User-manual
User Guide URL Functional Spec URLOpenHEXA has a growing community of around 250 people, from various countries across Africa and Europe. The community is primarily composed of :
- Health data managers
- Epidemiologists
- IT developers
- Statisticians
- Health Ministry Deciders
The community is engaged mainly through the organization of workshops with partner countries and organizations. During those workshops, participants are trained to use the platform and invited to provide regular feedback about the different features of the tool.
OpenHEXA is supported mostly through implementation funding and investment by the company. Key funders over the last 5 years include The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Global Fund and The World Bank.
