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Leading the Way: The Health Workforce's Role in Country Ownership

... and others—has shown marked improvement in expanding health services to the population and deploying health workers to rural ... Health Worker Retention Tool Retaining Community Health Workers in Ethiopia Guidelines for Forming and ...

Blog - jennifer - June 2013 - 0 comments

iHRIS Health Workforce Information System Helps India Improve Health Service Delivery

... like many countries, is embracing the goal of universal health coverage —that all people can affordably access the health ... obstetricians and anesthesiologists are in great demand at community health centers. Jharkhand’s principal secretary of health reviewed ...

News - Sarah Dwyer - July 2014 - 0 comments

No Health Care without Health Workers

... the post-Millennium Development Goals aim of universal health coverage, major external donors will find themselves increasingly ... to care in rural areas. Teams using auxiliary nurses, community health workers, and other health workers can deliver high-quality ...

Blog - Sarah Dwyer - June 2013 - 0 comments

Bounties: A New Approach for iHRIS Development, Implementation, and Sustainability

... an exciting new approach to expanding the global iHRIS community. They are utilizing “code bounties” as a way to get more ... a suite of open source tools for managing and supporting health workers. Even though I’ve worked with the iHRIS team for years, I ...

Blog - Carol Bales - January 2012 - 0 comments

CapacityPlus Launches Technical Brief Series with Population Growth and the Global Health Workforce Crisis

... Brief Series with Population Growth and the Global Health Workforce Crisis Capacity Plus ... A Global Health Workforce Perspective Community Health Workers: Meeting the Need for Family Planning in West and ...

News - Sarah Dwyer - December 2011 - 0 comments

Special Event Showcases the iHRIS Software for Strengthening the Health Workforce

... and dissemination event, Better Data, Stronger Health Workforce: The Open Source iHRIS Approach . Held at the National Press ... to enhance the core iHRIS software while a global community of developers now provides country customization support and ... Interoperability between and beyond Health Worker Information Systems (Carl Leitner, Capacity Plus ) Expanding ...

News - Carol Bales - July 2014 - 0 comments

Universities and Global Health: Key Themes and Challenges

... I attended the Consortium of Universities for Global Health’s annual conference in Washington, DC. Here are some of the key ... diseases, mental health, women and girls, and community health workers were also discussed frequently. Concerns on ... Related items: Transforming Health Worker Education: Implementing Options to Eliminate Gender Discrimination ...

Blog - Carol Bales - April 2013 - 0 comments

Nineteen Countries Save $149 Million with Open Source Health Workforce Information Systems

... resources information system, to support over 810,000 health worker records. It would cost more than $149 million in licensing fees ... sustainability, Capacity Plus created a global iHRIS community intended to become self-sufficient in supporting iHRIS users. The ...

News - Sarah Dwyer - March 2014 - 0 comments

Uganda Launches National Health Workforce Information System Built on iHRIS

On February 7, the Uganda Ministry of Health (MOH) and USAID/Uganda jointly launched the country’s Human ... health workforce. Indeed, even finding one health worker’s record was difficult. Now, the councils maintain electronic ... in Uganda Growing the Global iHRIS Community, One Bounty at a Time Health Worker Information Systems ...

News - Carol Bales - February 2012 - 0 comments

mHero Updates Health Workers on Ebola in Real Time

... are joining forces to help Liberia’s Ministry of Health and Social Welfare communicate with health workers in real time as the ... worker data from any CSD-compliant data source, such as a community health worker registry, and offers a consistent source of health ...

News - Sarah Dwyer - September 2014 - 0 comments