News & Updates

IntraHealth invests in iHRIS and a full spectrum of digital solutions to support universal health access. Learn more about our progress through our news and updates.

iHRIS Manage and Qualify 3.0: The Long Road to Releasing Software

As I have promised, we are releasing versions 3.0 of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify this month. We will start by posting new live demos on this website and stable release versions of the code on our Launchpad hosting site . We'll follow that up with complete packages that you can download from this website, which will make it easier to install and try out the software. Writing information systems is hard and sometimes frustrating work. As soon as...

Capacity Project’s HR Software Upgraded at Uganda Health Councils

In Uganda, the country’s four professional health councils recently upgraded to version 3.0 of the Capacity Project’s iHRIS Qualify software, which tracks training, certification and licensing of health workers. Version 1.0 was installed in the councils last year. The newest version integrates more easily with iHRIS Manage, the Capacity Project’s HR management software, and offers increased capabilities for searching, reporting and customization...

From Data to Decisons in Swaziland

On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, February 20th - 22nd, members of the public sector human resources for health staff in Swaziland gathered in Ezulwini Valley to understand the importance of using data for decision making. Participants represented both regional health facility and central level interests and provided a well-rounded picture of the needs for data for better decisions and planning within the public health sector. On day one of the...

What Is Health Workforce Planning?

One of the components of the Capacity Project's suite of HRIS software is a workforce planning and modeling program, iHRIS Plan. The purpose of this software is to provide a user-friendly way for workforce planners and health policy makers to project their health workforce supply and needs and model interventions that would close the gaps between the two. Health workforce planning is a complex subject that requires analysis of a large amount of...

iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify Versions 3.0 Coming Soon -- Documentation Updated

We hope to announce by the end of this month the release of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify version 3.0. Most of the changes in version 3.0 are to the structure of the software, which will make it easier for developers to customize the software and for system administrators to manage it without our technical assistance. One big change is the addition of configurable modules to each system. This enables system administrators to install new modules...

Kenyan Developers Modify HR Software to Meet Country Needs

In Kenya, a team of local developers has customized the Capacity Project’s iHRIS software to meet the requirements of the Ministry of Health (MOH). The iHRIS suite is released under an Open Source license that allows anyone to copy or change the source code and redistribute it for free. The local developers, contracted by the Capacity Project/Kenya, downloaded and studied the code for iHRIS Manage (a human resources management system) and iHRIS...

Human Resources for Health Data Collected in Southern Sudan

One of the Capacity Project’s objectives in Southern Sudan is to establish a national human resources information system (HRIS) that provides current data for health workforce planning and management. A key challenge has been connecting data from the ten states to a central database housed in the Ministry of Health (MOH). In Fall 2007, the Project strengthened and restructured an existing Access database to include information from paper-based...

Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council Launches iHRIS Qualify System

The Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council held a launch event in December for its fully functioning human resources information system (HRIS). Council staff and high-level officials viewed a demonstration of iHRIS Qualify —a training, certification and licensure tracking database created by the Capacity Project and piloted at the Council—and learned how to generate reports, such as a breakdown of nurses who have graduated but have not become...

Helen Lugina, HRIS Champion

Helen Lugina is the coordinator for the Human Resources Development and Capacity Building program of the East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community (ECSA-HC). Based in Arusha, Tanzania, ECSA-HC is an inter-governmental organization, currently consisting of 10 member countries. ECSA-HC’s mandate is to improve the quality of health care delivery in member countries, working mostly through advocacy and policy development. Dykki Settle...

Linking Up: Creating a Complete Picture of Swaziland's Health Workforce

The Capacity Project has published an article in the Voices series about the HRIS strengthening work that has been done in Swaziland: In Swaziland, a dwindling health workforce has been dealing with a heavy patient workload, providing care to the country’s high number of HIV-affected citizens and delivering services to meet other pressing needs. Health professionals have watched many of their colleagues move away from the public sector or migrate...