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A lot has happened over the last few months with HRIS strengthening! New projects have started up, decisions have been made about how to move forward to meet country goals, etc. We’re currently updating the Where We Are Working section of this site ... [More] , to reflect recent progress and accomplishments. Please check out the Kenya and Namibia success stories. We [...] [Less]

I am pleased to announce that a new resource about our HRIS work in Uganda is now available! The IntraHealth publication, From Kampala to the Districts: Linking Data, Saving Lives, examines how the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council and the Ministry ... [More] of Health are using data to support the country’s health workers and improve health care in the districts. [...] [Less]

On September 23, the Capacity Project held its end-of-project event, “It Takes a Workforce: Improving Global Health Services,” at the World Bank in Washington, DC. Project leadership and staff joined Pape Gaye, president and CEO of IntraHealth ... [More] International, and key representatives from USAID, global partner organizations, ministries of health and other organizations. The event included plenary [...] [Less]

On September 3, the Capacity Project’s Dykki Settle presented “Open Source for Global Health” as a so-called Hot Topic at the CDC Public Health Informatics Network conference in Atlanta. Settle highlighted the Project’s iHRIS Suite of Open Source ... [More] software for human resources for health (HRH), and discussed how it can leverage other systems—such as the OpenMRS [...] [Less]

A conversation recently started between our iHRIS development team and others in the Open Source community about a potential new software product. For now, we’re calling it ‘iHRIS Collect,’ and it would be a new tool to quickly design and deploy a ... [More] data collection survey. Here is how we think it could work: An administrator would log into iHRIS [...] [Less]

A new publication about HRIS strengthening in Namibia is now available.  “Connecting Regions, Leading the Way:Sharing Health Worker Information in Namibia,”  is part of the Voices from the Capacity Project series. Kautoo Mutirua, a leader in HRIS ... [More] strengthening in Namibia, explains how a pilot program to expand HRIS to the regions is helping the Ministry of Health [...] [Less]

Forward momentum of iHRIS Manage implementation has continued in Rwanda. Rwanda’s in-country HRIS Specialist, Solange Tuyisenge, was excited to report that all districts now have online access to iHRIS Manage. She noted that this development has not ... [More] come without challenges, as the ICT infrastructure is not sufficient in many district hospitals. Some of these hospitals [...] [Less]

Last week, Health Affairs published an article that projected a shortage of 818,000 doctors, nurses, and midwives in 31 sub-Saharan African countries by the year 2015. To come up with this figure, the authors examined both the estimated health worker ... [More] demand (1.163 million) and compared it with the estimated supply (371,000). When looking at these [...] [Less]

On July 16, the Uganda Ministry of Health’s Resource Center held an event to launch Vision 2012—a framework for developing and implementing a national health information system (NHIS). The event introduced several e-health systems encompassed by the ... [More] NHIS, including the Ministry’s human resources information system (HRIS) and knowledge management portal, both supported by the Capacity Project. Uganda’s [...] [Less]

The migration of health workers continues to be a hot topic in the healthcare world. The WHO’s 2006 World Health Report cited a global shortage of 4.3 million health workers. This shortage is concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, which has 25% of the global burden of disease but only 3% of the world’s health workforce. The [...]