News & Updates

The United Nations Foundation and Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership released a new paper, “Health information and health care: The role of technology in unlocking data and wellness,” in collaboration with the mHealth Alliance. The paper includes a chapter coauthored by Capacity Plus’s Dykki Settle.The paper examines critical bottlenecks in data collection and transfer among three key health sectors—disease surveillance, supply chains...

Capacity Plus recently created two new iHRIS overviews, to quickly orient readers to our iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify software: iHRIS Manage: A tool for managing the health workforce iHRIS Qualify: A tool for tracking health professionals and their qualificationsThe overviews provide a summary of the software products, including benefits and key features.The project also created overviews for other tools related to the project’s technical...

This post was originally published on the IntraHealth International blog. It is by our Informatics Team Lead, Dykki Settle.Last month, I wrote mHealth: the Possibilities of the Personal about the importance of capitalizing on people’s personal attachments to and investments in their cellphones as a key to making mHealth programs scalable and widely successful. Then I went to Accra, Ghana for the mHealth Africa Summit, which gave me the...

Capacity Plus Voices #1 is now available! This is the first in the new series (there was a Voices series for the former Capacity Project), and I’m excited that it’s about our partnership with the West African Health Organization (WAHO) to strengthen HRIS in its member countries.I love the Voices series by Sarah Dwyer, our communications manager, because she uses people’s own words to share the impact of the project's work. Since I work in Chapel...

Dykki Settle, informatics team lead for Capacity Plus, presented at the ‘ Sub-Regional Workshop on Health Information Systems and Epidemiological Surveillance in the Economic Community of West-African States Region’ on November 24 in Dakar, Senegal. The workshop was sponsored by the West African Health Association (WAHO) and brought together representatives from all 15 member countries to promote developing national health information systems...

Yesterday our Dykki Settle, Capacity Plus informatics team lead, joined approximately 80 other stakeholders in Accra, Ghana for the mHealth Africa Summit: The Promise of mHealth in Africa. They are from the health, telecommunication, ICT, finance, academic, and development fields, and are gathered to explore using mobile technology to improveto improve public health, research, and training with education applications and delivery systems in...

An article in the October edition of the Christian Social Services Commission (CSSC) newsletter recognizes the impact of the iHRIS software in Tanzania. CSSC, the largest faith-based organization in the country, is partnering with the IntraHealth-led Tanzania Human Resource Capacity Project (THRP) to implement iHRIS Manage in the private sector. The article reports on a September meeting of CSSC representatives and other stakeholders to review...

The HRIS Strengthening work of the Capacity Project and Capacity Plus was recently named among the " Top 25 Open Access and Open Source Medical Projects." The list was posted on A Hearty Blog, a blog aimed at nurses that strives to provide readers with "the best news and information related to maintaining a healthy heart, mind, and body."The post is timely as many health workers, including nurses, switch to electronic and online patient medical...

Working in the field of global health we often hear the global health workforce shortage: we don’t have enough doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists, community health workers in developing countries. This is true, but what we hear less about is how we manage and support the people we do have, which is also crucial and one of the main charges of the Uganda Capacity Program. One way the Uganda Capacity Program is helping to manage and support the...

The HRIS implementation team for Capacity Kenya (CK), has championed the use of iHRIS in Kenya and because of their efforts we are excited to soon have a fully integrated system for HRH for policy, planning, and management throughout the country.iHRIS work in Kenya began in August 2009 when iHRIS Manage was implemented to help HR Managers better track the location and skills of their health workers. Drawn from Kenya’s two Ministries of Health, 43...