News & Updates

What is OpenHIE (Health Information Exchange)? And what does it mean to the iHRIS community?OpenHIE is a framework that allows for sharing information across different health information systems. For iHRIS users, it’s an opportunity to contribute to and access a much bigger picture of their nation’s eHealth landscape. One of the major components of OpenHIE is a national health workforce registry. A Health Worker Registry (HWR) serves as the...

On May 6, Capacity Plus hosted its third knowledge-sharing and dissemination event, Better Data, Stronger Health Workforce: The Open Source iHRIS Approach. Held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, the event showcased iHRIS, the leading open source software for tracking and managing data on the health workforce.Through a combination of presentations by USAID and Capacity Plus, interactive roundtable discussions, software demonstrations...

My family has always valued the art of storytelling and maintaining our oral history through generations. I remembered that as I stood in line for lunch one day at the DHIS2 & iHRIS Interoperability Academy in Monrovia, Liberia, this month, when one of the data managers from Cape Mount County remarked, “Data tell stories.” The academy was the first of its kind, the beginning of what I hope is a long story about harnessing the power of health...

Capacity Plus has published a new technical brief, Establishing and Using Data Standards in Health Workforce Information Systems, co-authored by iHRIS team members Dykki Settle, Michael Webba Lwetabe, Amanda Puckett, and Carl Leitner. Human resources information systems are successful when they support policy and management decisions and when those decisions lead to better health care. However, success depends on the quality of the human...

Health workforce management and planning is serious business, but it can be fun too! Health decisions-makers at the Botswana Ministry of Health recently cut loose during their annual Back-to-School Day. Capacity Plus ’s Twaha Kabocho [from the iHRIS team] was in the country and captured the photo below. Twaha visited the Ministry for several weeks to teach HR managers and data clerks how to use the open source iHRIS software. The Ministry is...

The Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG) has begun using the iHRIS software to improve management and support of over 13,500 health workers posted in its health facilities across the country.With 184 facilities primarily located in hard-to-reach locations—where half the population of Ghana lives—CHAG is a significant provider of health care in the country. According to Samuel Nugblega, CHAG’s technical adviser on leadership, governance...

To ensure that the right health workers are in the right places with the right skills to deliver high-quality family planning, HIV/AIDS, and other essential health services, countries require current, accurate data on human resources for health. Join Capacity Plus and USAID for a knowledge-sharing and dissemination event on iHRIS—the leading open source software for national health workforce information systems. Participants will experience the...

iHRIS User - Level 1 eLearning Course is now available via the eLearning program hosted by Capacity Plus’s HRH Global Resource Center. The course is free and requires only that you register with the Global Resource Center. The iHRIS User - Level 1 eLearning Course provides instructions on how to set up and manage human resources data in the iHRIS Manage database. Information on managing employee and job applicant data, as well as training data...

Note: This is a reblog of a post originally published on the Capacity Plus blog.To improve the population’s access to high-quality health care, countries require current, accurate data on their health workforce. Togo is one of 19 countries using iHRIS, the leading open source software for national health workforce information systems.“iHRIS is used in Togo in order to identify health workers across the country,” says Kadjanta Tchaa of the...

This interview is one in a series introducing the people of iHRIS to the global iHRIS community. To nominate someone to be featured, please leave a reply below. Rosaline Hendricks is the iHRIS Human Resource Information Systems Advisor in Namibia. This interview is the second part in a two-part series.Interview by Adam Gori Part II I'm curious to know why you do this work. What motivates you?I shared with you that what gets me excited about IT is...