News & Updates

This week, the HRIS team is preparing for an upcoming meeting in Thailand – the Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2010 Global Health Information Forum on January 27-30, 2010. Dykki Settle, HRIS team lead, will attend the forum and will present a poster on Global HRIS Strengthening. Our communications team is now helping us design the poster, which will focus on the five-step HRIS strengthening process and iHRIS software, while highlighting results...

The HRIS Team continues to support the HRIS strengthening efforts of the West African Health Organization (WAHO). As we reported a few weeks ago, WAHO is currently piloting the iHRIS Manage software in the Northern Region of Ghana, one of the 15 countries the organization serves, to explore its ability to collate and analyze routine HRH data and to determine indicators for decision-making. The first phase of the pilot is underway at the Northern...

Kenya is implementing iHRIS Manage to track health workers in the country’s health sector. A technical working group (TWG), mandated by health sector stakeholders and with technical assistance from Capacity Kenya project, is leading the initiative. The two ministries of health -- Ministry of Medical Services (MoMS) and Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation (MoPHS) -- were identified as the first sites for implementation. So far, iHRIS Manage...

WHO, in collaboration with USAID and the World Bank, recently published the Handbook on Monitoring and Evaluation of Human Resources for Health: With Special Applications for Low and Middle Income Countries. The handbook aims to strengthen countries’ technical capacity to accurately monitor their health workforces. According to WHO’s website, the new tool “offers health managers, researchers and policy makers a comprehensive and standard...

Two months ago, the HRIS team received a contact through our website. The form was submitted by a professor in Burkina Faso who wrote he was interested in the iHRIS Suite and asked if there were plans to release a French version. After much follow up and communication, this seemingly simple inquiry has turned into an exciting opportunity to provide HRIS strengthening support for an entire region of Africa.The professor is Kayode Odusote, the...

We are pleased to announce the release of iHRIS Qualify and iHRIS Manage 4.0.2.This is a major upgrade for iHRIS Qualify, as it is migrating to the more sophisticated data structure that was introduced with iHRIS Manage 4.0. It is a minor release for iHRIS Manage.New enhancements in the 4.0.2 versions of both products allow users to: Upload resumes and photos Support decentralized data management Easily read data from other databases Include a...

A group of software developers from IntraHealth, Health Metrics Network, and Health Information Systems Programme (HISP) are collaborating to improve the interoperability of internationally-recognized Open Source health information systems (HIS). Currently, the group is conducting a pilot activity to easily integrate health worker data in iHRIS Manage with facility-level data in District Health Information Systems (DHIS). iHRIS Manage is an Open...

A locally led and initiated iHRIS developer training course, with focus on customization and localization, was conducted in Tanzania on October 28–31. The event was funded by the Tanzania Human Resource Capacity Project (THRCP), a new Capacity Project Associate Award led by IntraHealth, and facilitated by the University of Dar Es Salaam (UDSM). Over twenty local developers attended, from both Mainland and Zanzibar Ministries of Health and Social...

IntraHealth was recently awarded the follow-on to the Capacity Project – a five-year, $300 million global USAID cooperative agreement to strengthen the health workforce. The new agreement, currently called the Human Resources for Health and Quality Services (HRHQS) Project, will focus on collaborating with global organizations to increase the size, quality, and range of health services in countries facing severe shortages of health workers and...

Namibia recently completed a Data Centre in the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS), reaching another milestone in the country’s plan for HRIS strengthening. The new Data Centre will enhance the security, reliability and availability of the Ministry’s HR Information Management System (HRIMS). This system tracks health professionals working in the public sector and captures data on their training, certification, licensing and deployment...