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New Publication Highlights Value of Open Source Health Applications 16 August 2011

A new CapacityPlus Voices, “Improving health systems with the power of open source,” highlights the value of free, open source health information systems such as our iHRIS Suite.
Read the publication to find out how Dr. Alvin Marcelo plans to use iHRIS along with other health applications, like DHIS 2 (a district health management system), to improve [...]

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New Article Identifies Gaps and Opportunities in Ugandan Health System Using iHRIS Software 3 March 2011

Last month, Human Resources for Health published “Tracking and monitoring the health workforce: A new human resources information system (HRIS) in Uganda,” which identifies trends and gaps in the Ugandan health worker training system.
The analysis is based on data from the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council’s iHRIS Qualify system, which tracks health worker certification and licensure information. iHRIS [...]

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Made it to Rio, with a Little Help from our Friend 12 July 2010

The International Conference on Research in Human Resources for Health was recently held on June 9-11, 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The conference program was developed around three themes:

Human resources for health information systems and allocation models
Health labor market supply-demand dynamics
Human resources for health analysis and planning methodologies.

The CapacityPlus HRIS team was excited about [...]

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