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Code-Bounty/eHealth Fellow – Namibia iHRIS Manage Customization for FBO: Intern support Background IntraHealth Namibia has been supporting Human Resources Information System (HRIS) strengthening in Namibia since 2008. We have been working with the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) and various stakeholders to support the establishment of a national HRIS focusing on the health workforce. IntraHealth is now looking at implementing iHRIS...

BackgroundCapacity Plus, the USAID global flagship project for Human Resources for Health, has been globally supporting human resources information system (HRIS) strengthening. In the Latin American and Caribbean region, Capacity Plus is working with various organizations to support the establishment of national HRISs focusing on the health and social workforces. This eHealth Fellowship will provide key IT expertise in assessing and providing...

BackgroundCapacity Plus, the USAID global flagship project for Human Resources for Health, has been globally supporting human resources information system (HRIS) strengthening. In Ghana, Capacity Plus is working with various stakeholders to support the establishment of a national HRIS focusing on the health workforce. This Senior eHealth Fellowship will implement the customizations requested by the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria...

CapacityPlus Technical Brief #2. By Kayode Odusote, Carol Bales, Sarah Dwyer, and Dykki Settle.The West African Health Organization (WAHO) is implementing a regional approach to strengthening health workforce information systems, leveraging resources from Capacity Plus, other USAID-funded projects, donors, and global organizations. This technical brief provides an overview of this approach, highlights lessons learned, and provides recommendations...

Global health workforce issues have only recently received focused attention in the field of international development. In 2006, the World Health Organization identified 57 countries that had a health workforce crisis, defined as having less than 2.3 doctors, nurses, and midwives per thousand population. That same year, while working on the Capacity Project, we visited some of these health workforce crisis countries to see what tools and...

Code-Bounty/Senior eHealth Fellow – Ministry of Health Ghana iHRIS Manage Customizations BackgroundCapacity Plus, the USAID global flagship project for Human Resources for Health, has been globally supporting human resources information system (HRIS) strengthening. In Ghana, Capacity Plus is working with various stakeholders to support the establishment of a national HRIS focusing on the health workforce. This Senior eHealth Fellowship will...

This blog entry was originally posted on the CapacityPlus website. Global health workforce issues have only recently received focused attention in the field of international development. In 2006, the World Health Organization identified 57 countries that had a health workforce crisis, defined as having less than 2.3 doctors, nurses, and midwives per thousand population. That same year, while working on the IntraHealth-led Capacity Project, we...

IntraHealth Tanzania sent a delegation of staff and partners to Namibia earlier this year to learn about that country’s experiences implementing a large-scale human resources information system (HRIS). Tanzania’s HRIS is a customized version of iHRIS Manage. Namibia built its own system and implemented it with support from IntraHealth.The Tanzania delegation noted several lessons learned from the Namibian experience deploying the HRIS in the...

Seeing success is believing in success. That sums up the response of the delegation of staff and partners IntraHealth Tanzania sent earlier this year on a study tour to learn from colleagues in Namibia about their experiences implementing a large-scale human resources information system (HRIS). What an opportune moment it was to borrow experience from Namibia, where IntraHealth is also implementing an HRIS—and one that has made decisive progress...

We are pleased to announce a major new release of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify. Version 4.1 of the software enhances health data security and enables updating of health worker records at the district and facility level, improving data quality. Individual health workers can even update their own records using a new "self-service" option. Download it now. Supporting decentralizationA country’s Ministry of Health commonly distributes HR functions...