iHRIS Manage

Friday was the last day of the Western African HIS Unconference and Training Workshop, and what a wrap-up for the week it was! The day began with a joint presentation by Patrick Whitaker and Bob Jolliffe on using SDMX-HD as the means for transferring data between different components of an integrated health information system. Bob [...]

Thursday was the last full day of training. In the iHRIS tract, we started with an amazing presentation by Dr. Ly from Mali. We have not been working with the MOH in Mali, and we learned earlier this week that he found the iHRIS software, and together with his team was able to customize it [...]

Today, Wednesday, is our second day of training. We have one more full day tomorrow, and hopefully more on Friday. I think we all could have easily spent two weeks here based on everyone’s interest and enthusiasm. What is particularly amazing to me is the engagement of the HR Managers and HR [...]

Today is Tuesday and the second day of the unconference, where everyone really focused on training. We split into three main tracts for the training: one on DHIS , one on iHRIS and one on openMRS and open ELIS . As this is a western [...]

Today is the first day of the workshop. I have already met several people that I have only talked to online. I am also excited to meet many new people interested in what we are doing. Dorohty Gordon, the Director-General of the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence (KACE) in ICT, opened the session with [...]

I am waiting at the airport for my flight to Accra and I am very excited about the upcoming health information system (HIS) unconference hosted at the Kofi Annan Centre for Excellence – AITI with support from WAHO and HMN . [...]

Open Source and Global Health UnConference Focuses on Health Information Systems in West Africa September 20–24, Accra, Ghana The West African Health Organization (WAHO), WHO, the University of Oslo, Health Metrics Network (HMN) and the IntraHealth ... [More] International-led USAID-funded CapacityPlus project have joined forces to organize an “unconference” in Accra, Ghana, next week to strengthen health information systems [...] [Less]

CapacityPlus has been working closely with the West African Health Organization (WAHO) and its Director for HR Development, Professor Kayode Odusote, to provide virtual assistance for its HRIS strengthening in member countries. WAHO recently ... [More] completed a pilot of iHRIS Manage in Ghana and is now supporting the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria to implement [...] [Less]

The University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) received awards for their exhibit at the 34th Dar es Salaam International Trade Fare on July 7, also known as Sabasaba (‘saba’ means ‘seven’ in Swahili). The exhibit included several innovative works created or ... [More] supported by UDSM affiliates, and showcased Tanzania’s customized iHRIS Manage software. UDSM won two [...] [Less]

Last year, the Tanzania Human Resource Capacity Project (THRP) began partnering with the University of Dar-es-Salaam – Computer Science Department to ensure support and sustainability of the country’s iHRIS Manage software implementation and other ... [More] HRIS strengthening activities.. In the first year, eight seniors from the department worked with THRP to customize the system, work with the [...] [Less]