News & Updates

We are pleased to announce the release of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify 4.0.3.New enhancements in the 4.0.3 versions include: The ability to search records by recent changes Improved translation tools Increased interoperability with other health information systems software, such as District Health Information Systems (DHIS), through: A pluggable authentication module (system administrators, please read the important documentation at http://open...

Carl Leitner, iHRIS developer, recently traveled to Botswana to further the HRIS strengthening work initiated by the Capacity Project and transitioned to the South African Human Capacity Development (SAH-CD) Coalition. As SA-HCD will end in September, a key purpose of his trip was to build local informatics capacity and ensure sustainable HR information systems (HRIS) for Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Nursing Midwidery Council of Botswana...

One of our HRIS Advisors, after receiving an emergency email from a country asking for help restoring lost HRIS data, wrote, “Too often we see backup plans that are insufficient or exist only on paper, not actually in practice. We have also seen backup plans which are followed for a period of time and then abandoned due to busy staff or a false sense of security due to a period of time with no system catastrophes.”Indeed, an HRIS contains...

A few months ago, we produced a Flash-based 'touch,' or guided, demo for iHRIS Manage. The demo starts with informational slides that advance automatically. At any time, a viewer can choose to explore iHRIS Manage further, and touch/click through three common scenarios at his/her own pace. The guided demo can now be accessed on our website and clicked through with a mouse. It can also be downloaded and uploaded to a computer with a touch screen...

Uganda is committed to strengthening its health workforce information and using that information to make informed decisions. The new Uganda Capacity Project (UCP), an IntraHealth-led Capacity Project Associate Award, has outlined ambitious goals to support this effort. One goal in the next five years is to ensure all the country’s 85 districts each have a human resources management system. This builds off of the efforts of the Capacity Project...

On February 18, the Triangle Global Health Consortium's (TGHC) will host a discussion on the impact of open source technologies on global health. Dykki Settle, HRIS team lead, will join Paul Jones of the University of North Carolina and Ed Hammond of Duke University for a panel discussion about the contributions open source systems have made to health systems in the developing world.Visit the TGHC's site for more details. You can also follow the...

The IntraHealth-led Tanzania Human Resource Capacity Project (a Capacity Project Associate Award) recently hired a new HRIS Advisor. The new hire will be seconded to the Prime Minister’s Office of Regional and Local Government (PMO-RALG). The PMO-RALG is a key partner for strengthening HRIS in Tanzania’s public sector, and the project is assisting with HRIS implementation at PMO-RALG’s 137 district offices.The HRIS Advisor will serve as the...

The Pakistan Nursing Council (PNC) recently launched new online resources, including a customized iHRIS Qualify system! Implementation of the new registration system, along with a new website containing useful information about the council and registration process, was funded by USAID’s Technical Assistance for Capacity Building in Midwifery, Information and Logistics (TACMIL) project. Development and deployment were addressed in country by...

Scott Todd of IMA World Health visited the HRIS team in Chapel Hill last week. IMA is a nonprofit faith-based organization that provides health care services and supplies, and has field offices in Tanzania, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Southern Sudan, and Kenya. The organization also helps build and strengthen health care systems on the community, regional and national level. IMA is a key partner on the Capacity Project and on the new...

The iHRIS developers and other HRIS team members recently added new documentation to our wiki. Specifically, we added technical documentation to the 'How To's, Technical Overviews, and Tutorials' section.A few weeks ago we added an overview of custom reporting. This article includes information on creating relationships between data forms, developing a new report, and creating different report views. You can read the article here.This week we...