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Rosaline Hendricks is an iHRIS human resource information systems advisor in Namibia. iHRIS (pronounced "iris") is IntraHealth's open source software suite that helps countries around the world track and manage their health workforce data. The following is an excerpt of a post that originally appeared on the iHRIS Blog. Q: What do you like about IT? A: I like the fact that you can use it to optimize processes that normally take a very long time...

The newest iHRIS application, iHRIS Train , is now supported on TranslateWiki , a community that translates open source software into languages other than English. Version 4.2 of the iHRIS Suite is also supported. The TranslateWiki community has been helping to translate the iHRIS software into several languages, primarily Chinese, Ukrainian, Dutch, and German. Learn more about our translation efforts and how you can contribute .

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 first part in a two-part series. Interview by Adam Gori Part I Tell me where you're from and about your role in the iHRIS community. I grew up and went to primary school in a small...

A longer version of this post was originally published on the Global Health Workforce Alliance Members’ Platform . Capacity Plus is the featured member in March. We encourage you to join and contribute to the discussion. The World Health Organization recognizes a key component to achieving universal health coverage is “ a sufficient capacity of well-trained, motivated health workers .” For many countries, successfully managing the distribution of...

This is an excerpt of a post that originally appeared on the iHRIS Blog . Oluchukwu Ifele is a nurse by training, with a focus on nursing education and midwifery. She’s part of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, a regulatory body for nurses and midwives that promotes excellence in nursing education, research, administration, and practice. She supervises the clerical staff members who use IntraHealth International’s open source iHRIS...

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. Oluchukwu Ifele is a registered nurse and a supervising administrator in Nigeria’s Nursing and Midwifery Council. She began using iHRIS in 2010. Interview by Adam Gori Tell me about your background and what you do now. I am a nurse by training with a focus in nursing education and a...

The global agenda is clear: universal health coverage. And as we heard at the Third Global Forum on Human Resources for Health , a strong, qualified health workforce is essential to achieving this goal. But how do we create a strong global health workforce that can provide care to all 7 billion of us? One of the keys is information—reliable, accurate information on health workers’ skills and qualifications. Data on individual health workers’...

Health workforce managers have a new tool they can count on to better know and manage their health workforce. iHRIS Train, which manages data on the education of health professionals—both before entering the profession and while in service—is the latest application in the growing iHRIS lineup of workforce management software . iHRIS Train sheds light on a critical area of the health workforce picture. This tool collects and reports data on the...

The global agenda is clear: universal health coverage. And as we heard at the Third Global Forum on Human Resources for Health , a strong, qualified health workforce is essential to achieving this goal. But how do we create a strong global health workforce that can provide care to all 7 billion of us? One of the keys is information—reliable, accurate information on health workers’ skills and qualifications. Data on individual health workers’...

We are pleased to announce the release of Version 4.1.9 of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify, health workforce information solutions. iHRIS Manage supports Ministry of Health and other service delivery organizations to track, manage, deploy, and map the health workforce. iHRIS Qualify enables professional councils and associations to maintain a database of registered and licensed health professionals to support increased quality of care. Several new...