iHRIS Manage

CapacityPlus recently created two new iHRIS overviews, to quickly orient readers to our iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify software: iHRIS Manage: A tool for managing the health workforce iHRIS Qualify: A tool for tracking health professionals and their ... [More] qualifications The overviews provide a summary of the software products, including benefits and key features. The project also created overviews for other [...] [Less]

This post was originally published on the IntraHealth International blog. It is by our Informatics Team Lead, Dykki Settle. Last month, I wrote mHealth: the Possibilities of the Personal about the importance of capitalizing on people’s personal ... [More] attachments to and investments in their cellphones as a key to making mHealth programs scalable and widely successful. Then [...] [Less]

CapacityPlus Voices #1 is now available! This is the first in the new series (there was a Voices series for the former Capacity Project), and I’m excited that it’s about our partnership with the West African Health Organization (WAHO) to strengthen HRIS in its member countries. I love the Voices series by Sarah Dwyer, our communications [...]

Dykki Settle, informatics team lead for CapacityPlus, presented at the ‘Sub-Regional Workshop on Health Information Systems and Epidemiological Surveillance in the Economic Community of West-African States Region’ on November 24 in Dakar, Senegal. ... [More] The workshop was sponsored by the West African Health Association (WAHO) and brought together representatives from all 15 member countries to promote [...] [Less]

CapacityPlus’s new iHRIS software product, iHRIS Retain, is being coded in-country by two developers in Uganda, Stephen Ocaya and Nobert Mijumbi. This Open Source software is designed to help cost interventions to retain rural health care workers ... [More] , and is based on the World Health Organization’s global policy recommendations for rural retention. There are many ways health workers [...] [Less]

Yesterday our Dykki Settle, CapacityPlus informatics team lead, joined approximately 80 other stakeholders in Accra, Ghana for the mHealth Africa Summit: The Promise of mHealth in Africa. They are from the health, telecommunication, ICT, finance ... [More] , academic, and development fields, and are gathered to explore using mobile technology to improveto improve public health, research, and training [...] [Less]

This post was originally published on the IntraHealth International blog.               Working in the field of global health we often hear about the global health workforce shortage: we don’t have enough doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists ... [More] , community health workers in developing countries. This is true, but what we hear less about is how we manage and support the [...] [Less]

An article in the October edition of the Christian Social Services Commission (CSSC) newsletter recognizes the impact of the iHRIS software in Tanzania. CSSC, the largest faith-based organization in the country, is partnering with the IntraHealth-led ... [More] Tanzania Human Resource Capacity Project (THRP) to implement iHRIS Manage in the private sector. The article reports on a September [...] [Less]

The HRIS Strengthening work of the Capacity Project and CapacityPlus was recently named among the ”Top 25 Open Access and Open Source Medical Projects.” The list was posted on A Hearty Blog, a blog aimed at nurses that strives to provide readers with ... [More] “the best news and information related to maintaining a healthy heart, mind, and body.” The post is timely as [...] [Less]

The HRIS implementation team for Capacity Kenya (CK), has championed the use of iHRIS in Kenya and because of their efforts we are excited to soon have a fully integrated system for HRH for policy, planning, and management throughout the country. iHRIS work in Kenya began in August 2009 when iHRIS Manage was implemented to help [...]