iHRIS Qualify

While Africa has not developed the extensive wired infrastructure of the “Global North,” they have managed to leapfrog wired technology to an unprecedented adoption of mobile phones.  According to the UN Foundation, fully 64% of mobile users are in the developing world, and 80% of the world’s population now live in an area with mobile [...]

The HRH Global Resource Center is a global library of human resources for health (HRH) resources focused on developing countries that was developed by the Capacity Project. The collection contains many valuable resources on information systems ... [More] , including information system development and human resources information systems. These resources includes journal articles, reports, statistics, presentations, briefs, conferences, [...] [Less]

On February 5, the Capacity Project’s Dykki Settle, Informatics Director, and Luke Duncan, Senior Systems Developer,  presented the iHRIS software suite’s training management module at a Training Management Systems Summit in Arlington, VA. The module ... [More] is compatible with the Project’s iHRIS Manage software (an HR management system) and iHRIS Qualify software (a training and licensure tracking [...] [Less]

In the early 1980s MIT programmer Richard Stallman decided to build a replacement to the very expensive, proprietary UNIX computer operating system and make it completely free. His idea of what free meant extended the boundaries a bit when he formed ... [More] the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and included in his mission statement, “availability of source [...] [Less]

With Tanzania field support funding the Capacity Project recently launched the first installation of our new HRIS appliance. The appliance, pictured below, is a small computer without a traditional screen, keyboard, or mouse. A network administrator uses the small LCD screen and few buttons on front to install the appliance on the LAN [...]

The need for better information on health workers is critical to addressing not just the oft-challenged health worker crisis, but to deal with any and all health issues, on every level from local communities to the entire world. There are many efforts undertaken around the world to improve the availability, analysis and use of health worker [...]

Here is an update on our development calendar for the first part of 2009. The highest priority feature on our schedule right now is import/export data. This would allow decentralized use of iHRIS, such as installing the Windows versions in districts ... [More] that can then exchange data with a centralized server version. Several countries are currently implementing [...] [Less]

The critical need for strong information systems to manage and deliver better data about national health resources is widely acknowledged by development agencies, donors, the World Health Organization, the World Bank and USAID. Others have attempted ... [More] to provide human resource information systems (HRIS) for developing countries, with little success. Understanding these failures has informed the [...] [Less]

In January, an evaluation was performed in Uganda to assess the Capacity Project’s HRIS strengthening work thus far. A team of evaluators conducted qualitative interviews with over 20 key informants involved in improving the country’s HRIS at the ... [More] central and district level, including representatives from Capacity Project Uganda, the Health Workforce Advisory Board (HWAB), the [...] [Less]

IntraHealth International launched a new initiative yesterday: IntraHealth OPEN. This project will help put the latest advances in open source technology into the hands of Africans to solve the most critical public health issues of our day. Major ... [More] recording artists from around the globe have released a series of remixes in support of IntraHealth OPEN, [...] [Less]