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Utilizing Health Workforce Information and Mobile Phone Technology in Uganda 3 January 2012

The Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners’ Council (UMDPC) recently launched a new mobile directory, which provides information Ugandans can use to seek health services from qualified health workers at qualified facilities. By combining health workforce data with mobile phone technology, the system also allows council staff and health facility managers to easily verify health professionals’ [...]

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iHRIS – A Year of Development 8 August 2011

We know that  most ‘Year in Review’ articles are published in January, coinciding with the new calendar year, but the year that’s been consuming our thoughts just ended. CapacityPlus’s second fiscal year wrapped up in June and, since we’ve been concentrating on iHRIS development over the last year for our year-end reporting, we thought we’d post a summary [...]

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HIS Milestone Reached! Health Information Systems Prove Interoperability Success at HIS Unconference and Training Workshop 28 September 2010

Friday was the last day of the Western African HIS Unconference and Training Workshop, and what a wrap-up for the week it was!
The day began with a joint presentation by Patrick Whitaker and Bob Jolliffe on using SDMX-HD as the means for transferring data between different components of an integrated health information system. Bob [...]

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