iHRIS Plan

Carl Leitner, iHRIS developer, presented a paper and participated in a panel at the first international Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH) on April 11 in Atlanta, GA. The workshop brought together over 150 international researchers ... [More] and practitioners from Computer Science and Health/Medical informatics fields and was part of the larger weeklong SIG-CHI conference. [...] [Less]

The Tanzania Human Resource Capacity Project (THRCP), a Capacity Project Associate Award, recently received a formal request from the Mission Mikocheni Hospital (MMH) for technical assistance to implement iHRIS Manage. The MMH, located in Dar es ... [More] Salaam, is a nonprofit NGO, whose goal is to offer medical services to anyone regardless of color, belief, social status, [...] [Less]

When Carl Leitner, iHRIS developer, was recently in Botswana, he also made time for a one day trip to Lesotho. The purpose of both trips was to ensure sustainability of the HRIS strengthening work funded by the South African Human Capacity ... [More] Development (SAHCD) Coalition, a Capacity Project Associate Award that will end in September. While in Lesotho, [...] [Less]

We are pleased to announce the release of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify 4.0.3. New enhancements in the 4.0.3 versions include: The ability to search records by recent changes Improved translation tools Increased interoperability with other health ... [More] information systems software, such as District Health Information Systems (DHIS), through: A pluggable authentication module (system administrators, please read the important documentation at [...] [Less]

Carl Leitner, iHRIS developer, recently traveled to Botswana to further the HRIS strengthening work initiated by the Capacity Project and transitioned to the South African Human Capacity Development (SAH-CD) Coalition. As SA-HCD will end in ... [More] September, a key purpose of his trip was to build local informatics capacity and ensure sustainable HR information systems (HRIS) for [...] [Less]

One of our HRIS Advisors, after receiving an emergency email from a country asking for help restoring lost HRIS data, wrote, “Too often we see backup plans that are insufficient or exist only on paper, not actually in practice. We have also seen backup plans which are followed for a period of time and then [...]

A few months ago, we produced a Flash-based ‘touch,’ or guided, demo for iHRIS Manage. The demo starts with informational slides that advance automatically. At any time, a viewer can choose the option to explore iHRIS Manage further, and touch/click ... [More] through three common scenarios at his/her own pace.  The guided demo can now be accessed on our website and clicked through with a mouse. It [...] [Less]

Uganda is committed to strengthening its health workforce information and using that information to make informed decisions. The new Uganda Capacity Project (UCP), an IntraHealth-led Capacity Project Associate Award, has outlined ambitious goals to ... [More] support this effort. One goal in the next five years is to ensure all the country’s 85 districts each have a [...] [Less]

On February 18, the Triangle Global Health Consortium’s (TGHC) will host a discussion on the impact of open source technologies on global health. Dykki Settle, HRIS team lead, will join Paul Jones of the University of North Carolina and Ed Hammond of ... [More] Duke University for a panel discussion about the contributions open source systems have made to health [...] [Less]

The IntraHealth-led Tanzania Human Resource Capacity Project (a Capacity Project Associate Award) recently hired a new HRIS Advisor. The new hire will be seconded to the Prime Minister’s Office of Regional and Local Government (PMO-RALG). The ... [More] PMO-RALG is a key partner for strengthening HRIS in Tanzania’s public sector, and the project is assisting with HRIS [...] [Less]