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Kabelo Bitsang, iHRIS administrator for the Botswana Ministry of Health, learned to maintain and customize the iHRIS software through studying documentation online, working with Capacity Plus developers both in-country and remotely, and attending a training in Ghana. He came from a Microsoft Windows background and learned to work in a Linux environment, the required operating system for iHRIS. “I mostly learned from trial and error and just...

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Growing up in Nigeria, Kayode Odusote liked figuring out how things work. As a young boy, he would often purchase Radio Shack do-it-yourself kits and assemble them.Years later he became a neurologist and professor, and more recently served as director for human resources development at the West African Health Organization (WAHO). WAHO is an umbrella organization of 15 member countries, and one of Professor Odusote’s key aims was to help these...

The first iHRIS eLearning course is now available!Capacity Plus’s HRH Global Resource Center recently announced the launch of its eLearning program. The GRC will now offer free courses developed by technical experts in the fields of HRH, health informatics, and health service delivery to build the capacity of country-based users in critical skills development. The first course developed for the GRC eLearning program is an iHRIS administrator...

This blog was originally posted on the CapacityPlus blog. Kabelo Bitsang, iHRIS administrator for the Botswana Ministry of Health, learned to maintain and customize the iHRIS software through studying documentation online, working with developers both in-country and remotely through with IntraHealth International’s global project Capacity Plus, and attending a training in Ghana. He came from a Microsoft Windows background and learned to work in a...

We are pleased to announce the release of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify 4.0.15.Since the 4.0.12 release, we have introduced several new features and enhancements to make implementation and administration of iHRIS easier, including: A simpler method for producing standardized forms based on OpenOffice documents (documentation can be found here) Faster report generation. We have also fixed the following reported bugs: Nightly command report...

Mali is the newest country in West Africa to adopt Capacity Plus’s iHRIS software, a suite of Open Source tools for tracking, managing, and planning the health workforce. Capacity Plus supports the West African Health Organization (WAHO) in strengthening health workforce information in the region and implementing the iHRIS software in interested countries.Like other countries in the region, Mali has a critical shortage and maldistribution of...

The Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council recently launched a registration website that makes it easy for employers and managers of health professionals and the public to check on which medical officers are licensed to work in the country. This registration information is derived from the Council’s iHRIS Qualify system, our licensure and certification software.Every day, an updated Excel file of registered doctors and dentists is...

Last month, the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council (the Council) introduced a web-based system for registering all the medical officers and dentists in the country. This new system will make it easier and faster for employers, managers of health professionals, and the public to check on a health care provider’s professional standing. The web system also makes it possible to find out which clinics are registered and approved, who owns...

Capacity Plus is teaming up with other organizations and projects to improve health information – including data on the health workforce – in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).On April 11, Professor Kayode Odusote, former director of human resources development of the West African Health Organization (WAHO), represented the project at The Meeting of Technical and Financial Partners Involved in the Field of Health in Accra...