News & Updates

iHRIS team lead Dykki Settle is co-author of an article appearing in the November 2013 Bulletin of the World Health Organization. The theme for the bulletin is "human resources for universal health coverage." The article, "Leveraging information technology to bridge the health workforce gap," makes recommendations for how information and communication technologies can be used in training, deploying, supporting, and empowering front-line health...

Dykki Settle leads IntraHealth International and the IntraHealth-led Capacity Plus project’s efforts in health worker informatics, bringing a health worker-centered approach to the availability and use of high-quality information. Data, data, data—they’re the fuel that powers any robust national health care system. They can propel a country toward the Shangri-La of universal health coverage—or they can hold one back. IntraHealth’s Dykki Settle...

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. Kayode Odusote is regional HRIS advisor to CapacityPlus. He promotes the use of iHRIS for health-workforce development and planning in Africa in general and in the West Africa region in particular. He is also the chief executive officer of Foundation for Sustainable Health Development, an...

Can a mentoring relationship between nations expedite implementation of the iHRIS open source software for tracking and managing health workers?With that in mind, Robert Nguni of Capacity Kenya recently traveled to neighboring Uganda for a week-long visit to learn about strategies successfully put into practice by the Uganda Capacity Program.I interviewed Nguni, senior manager of HRIS in Kenya, along with Ismail Wadembere, HRIS manager, and...

The potential for using health workforce data to improve access to quality health services just got greater. Care Services Discovery, a profile of data standards and guidance for organizing and identifying health facilities, health care organizations, health workers, and health services, was recently published by Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise, a global initiative to improve the way health information systems share information. The...

The African Palliative Care Association (APCA), which works to reduce unnecessary pain and suffering from life-limiting illnesses across Africa, has endorsed the iHRIS free, open source health workforce information software. APCA announced the endorsement during its fourth triennial conference held September 17-20 in Johannesburg, South Africa.Commenting on the iHRIS software, APCA Executive Director, Dr. Emmanuel Luyirika said, “As APCA is...

This week, a post by global development communications expert David J. Olson in the Huffington Post, "Years of Investments Finally Put Health Workers on the Global Stage," mentioned iHRIS as an example of how development aid is supporting health workers, the backbone of any health system. Here is the quote: And in Ghana, I saw IntraHealth's CapacityPlus project helping the Ministry of Health to introduce a health workforce information system...

September 25, 2013, 4:00 p.m. EDT Practical Health Workforce Informatics in Low-Resource SettingsDurham, NCiHRIS developer Carl Leitner will discuss various components of routine health workforce information systems employed in low-resource settings, as well as architectural models and standards that allow these systems to interoperate within the larger health information system. He will present the health information system being deployed in...

It was a great opportunity to attend the first iHRIS Academy 2013. I was one of the representatives from Botswana; other African countries that attended the academy were Namibia, Malawi, Rwanda, Nigeria, Liberia, and Tanzania. The aim of the training was to bring together the iHRIS implementers, system administrators, and other stakeholders that have iHRIS systems running in their countries to equip them with the relevant skills of developing...

Want to learn more about our open source health information software, iHRIS? On Tuesday, September 10, from 11:30a.m.-12:45p.m. EDT, Team Lead Dykki Settle will be speaking at a webinar in a series sponsored by the NonProfits Organization Knowledge Initiative (NPOKI), "Connecting the Information Dots." Dykki Settle will present the open source iHRIS software for capturing, maintaining, and reporting health workforce information. The webinar is...