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One of the iHRIS software developers recently ran across an article by Darren Wilkins that advocates for free and Open Source software (FOSS) in Africa and cites the iHRIS software as an example of an Open Source initiative already underway in several African countries.In 'Running a Windows-based computing platform may be too costly for Liberia- It is time to start using Open Source Software,' Wilkins argues that FOSS is crucial to Liberia’s...
New 4.0.1 versions of iHRIS Qualify and iHRIS Manage are currently being tested for release later this month. This is a major upgrade for iHRIS Qualify, as it is migrating to the more sophisticated data structure of iHRIS 4.0. New enhancements in the 4.0.1 versions include: Ability to upload resumes and photos Link to standardized ISCO job codes in iHRIS Manage Support for decentralized data management Ability to easily read data from other...
I am pleased to announce that a new resource about our HRIS work in Uganda is now available! The IntraHealth publication, From Kampala to the Districts: Linking Data, Saving Lives, examines how the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council and the Ministry of Health are using data to support the country's health workers and improve health care in the districts. Many voices from Uganda combine to tell the story, including the voices of two very...
On September 23, the Capacity Project held its end-of-project event, “It Takes a Workforce: Improving Global Health Services,” at the World Bank in Washington, DC. Project leadership and staff joined Pape Gaye, president and CEO of IntraHealth International, and key representatives from USAID, global partner organizations, ministries of health and other organizations. The event included plenary presentations, break-out sessions for discussion...
On September 3, the Capacity Project’s Dykki Settle presented “Open Source for Global Health” as a so-called Hot Topic at the CDC Public Health Informatics Network conference in Atlanta. Settle highlighted the Project’s iHRIS Suite of Open Source software for human resources for health (HRH), and discussed how it can leverage other systems—such as the OpenMRS medical records system and the OpenROSA mHealth framework—to improve health service...
A conversation recently started between our iHRIS development team and others in the Open Source community about a potential new software product. For now, we’re calling it ‘iHRIS Collect,’ and it would be a new tool to quickly design and deploy a data collection survey.Here is how we think it could work: An administrator would log into iHRIS Collect and use a web-based tool to define the forms/fields he/she wants to collect. For example a basic...
A new publication about HRIS strengthening in Namibia is now available. "Connecting Regions, Leading the Way:Sharing Health Worker Information in Namibia," is part of the Voices from the Capacity Project series. Kautoo Mutirua, a leader in HRIS strengthening in Namibia, explains how a pilot program to expand HRIS to the regions is helping the Ministry of Health make evidence-based decisions about the country's health workforce.This publication is...
Forward momentum of iHRIS Manage implementation has continued in Rwanda. Rwanda’s in-country HRIS Specialist, Solange Tuyisenge, was excited to report that all districts now have online access to iHRIS Manage. She noted that this development has not come without challenges, as the ICT infrastructure is not sufficient in many district hospitals. Some of these hospitals have irregular internet connectivity, which is problematic for routine system...
Last week, Health Affairs published an article that projected a shortage of 818,000 doctors, nurses, and midwives in 31 sub-Saharan African countries by the year 2015. To come up with this figure, the authors examined both the estimated health worker demand (1.163 million) and compared it with the estimated supply (371,000). When looking at these numbers, it immediately becomes clear why this article is garnering attention in the HRH field—the...
On July 16, the Uganda Ministry of Health’s Resource Center held an event to launch Vision 2012—a framework for developing and implementing a national health information system (NHIS). The event introduced several e-health systems encompassed by the NHIS, including the Ministry’s human resources information system (HRIS) and knowledge management portal, both supported by the Capacity Project.Uganda’s HRIS consists of a training, certification and...
