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Code Bounty: XML Representation of Field Data Scope of Work 1. Background and Objectives Capacity Plus, the USAID global flagship project for human resources for health, has been globally supporting human resources information system (HRIS) strengthening. XML representation of field data would create a standard way of representing form field data safely as structured xml. It would be used by the custom reporting module whenever export as XML is...

SCOPE OF WORKiHRIS English to Arabic Translations 1. Background and Objectives CapacityPlus, the USAID global flagship project for human resources for health, has been globally supporting human resources information system (HRIS) strengthening. In order to establish an effective regional HRIS presence in Arabic speaking countries where we have not implemented iHRIS or supported an existing HRIS, our documentation requires translation.The...

It seems like every other day the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council receives reports about patients who have been conned or harmed by unscrupulous people posing as medical personnel and operating unregistered and unlicensed clinics. In response to this troubling problem and building on the launch of an electronic human resources information system (HRIS), the Uganda Capacity Program has successfully launched an SMS service to...

Code Bounty: Decentralized iHRIS DocumentationSCOPE OF WORK 1. Background and ObjectivesThe Ministry of Heath in Ghana has piloted the iHRIS Manage software in the Northern Region and the Tamale Teaching Hospital. They intend on having a decentralized iHRIS system consisting of the 10 regions as well as the national teaching and referral hospitals. They wish to aggregate the data collected at the regional level to a national site. 2...

We are pleased to announce the release of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify 4.0.18.Part of the iHRIS Suite of software, iHRIS Manage maintains health worker deployment, performance, and attrition information while iHRIS Qualify tracks training, certification, and licensure.Since the 4.0.15 release, we added several new features and enhancements to improve the usability and data quality of the software, including: A new checkbox display for entering...

Professor Kayode Odusote works with countries in West Africa to effectively track, manage, and plan their health workforce using our open source iHRIS software. He recently traveled from his home country of Nigeria to share his successes and lessons learned at several meetings. Until last December, Professor Odusote was the director of human resources for health for the West African Health Organization (WAHO). While working for WAHO, he...

This blog entry was originally posted on the CapacityPlus blog. We know that most “year in review” articles are published in January, coinciding with the new calendar year, but with IntraHealth’s global project, Capacity Plus, wrapping up its second fiscal year, we thought we’d post a summary of accomplishments. Following the “release early, release often” philosophy that encourages user feedback, we published 11 new releases of iHRIS Qualify and...

A new Capacity Plus Voices, “ Improving health systems with the power of open source,” highlights the value of free, open source health information systems such as our iHRIS Suite.Read the publication to find out how Dr. Alvin Marcelo plans to use iHRIS along with other health applications, like DHIS 2 (a district health management system), to improve health outcomes in the Philippines. Dr. Marcelo believes these applications can work together to...

We know that most ‘Year in Review’ articles are published in January, coinciding with the new calendar year, but the year that’s been consuming our thoughts just ended. Capacity Plus’s second fiscal year wrapped up in June and, since we've been concentrating on iHRIS development over the last year for our year-end reporting, we thought we'd post a summary of our accomplishments.Following the ‘release early, release often’ philosophy that...

Last month, our iHRIS team lead, Dykki Settle, participated in the Ethiopian eHealth Standards and Interoperability Workshop in Addis Ababa at the invitation of the World Health Organization. The workshop was hosted by the Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia and the WHO.In collaboration with development partners, the Ministry of Health has already embarked on several eHealth initiatives, including health management information systems...