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 [...]
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 and practitioners from Computer Science and Health/Medical informatics fields and was part of the larger weeklong SIG-CHI conference. [...]
IntraHealth President Pape Gaye and Assistant Director of Communications David Nelson have published a commentary in Human Resources for Health: “Effective scale-up: avoiding the same old traps”. In it, they discuss common pitfalls experienced in implementing training programs for health workers. HRIS strengthening is addressed as an activity that can actually impact and improve training [...]
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