iHRIS Manage

Dykki Settle, HRIS team lead, published an article in the new issue of Global Health magazine on the role of information and communications technology in health systems strengthening. You can access the article here.

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 ... [More] registration process, was funded by USAID’s Technical Assistance for Capacity Building in Midwifery, Information and Logistics (TACMIL) project. Development and deployment [...] [Less]

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 ... [More] , Southern Sudan, and Kenya. The organization also helps build and strengthen health care systems on [...] [Less]

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 ... [More] custom reporting. This article includes information on creating relationships between data forms, developing a new report, and creating different report [...] [Less]

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 [...]

IntraHealth entered a competition held by Seacom – the large company that recently connected the east side of Africa to high speed internet – to answer the question, “What could Africa do with more broadband?” IntraHealth and the IntraHealth OPEN ... [More] Initiative responded to the question by creating a short video featuring Pape Gaye, IntraHealth International’s President and [...] [Less]

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 [...]

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. ... [More] The two ministries of health — Ministry of Medical Services (MoMS) and Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation (MoPHS) [...] [Less]

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’ ... [More] technical capacity to accurately monitor their health workforces. According to WHO’s website, the new tool “offers health managers, [...] [Less]

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 [...]