News & Updates

The University of Dar es Salaam’s first eLearning newsletter features an article about the university’s support of Tanzania’s iHRIS Manage system, and highlights several benefits.A team of faculty and students from the Computer Science Department is partnering with the IntraHealth-led Tanzania Human Resource Capacity Project to support and customize iHRIS Manage for Tanzania. As part of this work, they have adapted the system to meet needs in...

Today, Dr. Alvin Marcelo, director of the University of the Philippines Manila National Telehealth Center, will present iHRIS Manage to the country’s Secretary of Health at a “Connectathon." iHRIS Manage is designed for managing the health workforce—a Ministry of Health, district health office, or health care facility can use it to manage and analyze information about employed health workers and applicants. It is part of the larger iHRIS Suite of...

iHRIS software, developed by IntraHealth’s Capacity Project and supported by its global project Capacity Plus, can now be translated into numerous languages through Translatewiki, a platform that brings together translation and language communities with free and Open Source software projects. iHRIS is a suite of tools to supply health-sector leaders with information to track, manage, and plan the health workforce. It is designed for use by...

I used to work at the Registrar of the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council where I was the custodian of all information pertaining to the Ugandan nursing cadre. I often felt humbled when people, including those from high-ranking organizations, would come to me seeking data. Too often though, I felt helpless and guilty knowing that the data I gave them was inaccurate. I would sit among heaps of paper, data piled up from the 1930s when the Council...

Translation of the iHRIS software beyond English has expanded and is now available through Translatewiki. Translatewiki is a platform that brings together translation communities, language communities, and free and open source software projects, like iHRIS.iHRIS is specifically designed for use by Ministries of Health, professional health councils, and other organizations in low-resource countries. Since the software is open source, these...

We recently announced new versions of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify. The 4.0.12 versions introduce new data management tools for cleansing data, an important step for aggregating data into meaningful reports. The new tools include a safe way to delete data and the ability to share standardized data lists across multiple iHRIS installations.New features help ensure consistent data quality. Based on user feedback, we modified the standard...

We are pleased to announce the release of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify 4.0.12.This 4.0.12 release introduces several new features to make implementation and administration of iHRIS easier, including: A new mechanism to add extra field validations via ‘hooks.’ For example, this is now used to validate dates entered into the disciplinary action module and the workplace incident module. An easy way to remap the id of a form safely – this is useful...

The iHRIS developers recently added new documentation and resources to our wiki. Specifically, they added technical documentation to the ‘ How To’s, Technical Overviews, and Tutorials’ section. New Resources on the wiki include: Enabling iHRIS translations Changing the banner, logo, and other branding in iHRIS to represent your organization Exporting relationships and reports to a new module Exporting and updating form caches Creating an...

Last month, Human Resources for Health published “ Tracking and monitoring the health workforce: A new human resources information system (HRIS) in Uganda,” which identifies trends and gaps in the Ugandan health worker training system. The analysis is based on data from the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council’s iHRIS Qualify system, which tracks health worker certification and licensure information. iHRIS Qualify is part of the iHRIS Suite of open...

Our Dykki Settle, HRIS team lead for Capacity Plus, served on a panel titled, Building an eHealth Workforce, at the recent Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Bangkok, Thailand. IntraHealth International partnered with the Rockefeller Foundation to present the side session, which focused on developing and supporting an eHealth workforce to implement eHealth technologies, including human resources information systems, in countries...