HR Information Systems

CapacityPlus Overview: End-of-Project Event

david — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 18:31:54 +0000

CapacityPlus Overview: End-of-Project Event

Author's name:

Kate Tulenko

September 2015 (All day)

CapacityPlus Overview: End-of-Project Event

An overview presentation on the project's results and lessons learned delivered at the CapacityPlus end-of-project event in Arlington, Virginia, on September 17, 2015.

Strengthening the Health Workforce for Improved Services: Results and Lessons Learned from CapacityPlus 2009-2015

david — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 17:38:18 +0000

Strengthening the Health Workforce for Improved Services: Results and Lessons Learned from CapacityPlus 2009-2015

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

September 2015 (All day)

CapacityPlus Final Report

The CapacityPlus final report details the project’s achievements in supporting country-led progress in health professional education, human resources management and leadership, use of health workforce data for decision-making, health workforce retention and productivity, professionalizing under-recognized cadres of health workers, monitoring and evaluation, and addressing gender equality in health systems.

Using Health Workforce Data to Improve Access to Services

david — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:36:48 +0000

Author's name:

Carl Leitner, Dykki Settle, Kate Tulenko, David Potenziani, Michael Drane, Luke Duncan, Amanda Puckett, and Alfredo Fort

September 2015 (All day)

CapacityPlus Legacy Series #3

CapacityPlus expanded use of the open source human resources information systems platform, iHRIS, to enable countries to use data to make decisions to more effectively recruit and deploy health workers for increased access to services and to track health worker qualifications and education pipelines; the iHRIS software is now used in 20 countries to manage almost a million health worker records at a potential cost savings of over $275 million when compared to commercial software.

The Health Workforce Information Ecosystem: Strengthening Connections between Health Workforce Information Domains and e/mHealth Technologies

Sarah Dwyer — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 18:20:40 +0000

Author's name:

Dykki Settle, Carl Leitner, and Luke Duncan

November 2014 (All day)

The Health Workforce Information Ecosystem

Health workforce information systems have been proliferating in countries to address different health workforce needs, including management systems in the public and private sector, regulatory information systems including professional council registration and licensure, and training information systems. However, these different systems are not reaching their full potential due to failure to work as an interoperable whole. Presented at the GETHealth Summit in Dublin, Ireland (November 13–14, 2014), this poster describes work to develop a new data exchange standard, Care Services Discovery. This technology is open and collaborative, available for support by a wide variety of technologies, including iHRIS, DHIS 2, and UNICEF’s RapidPro platform. Open source technologies and open standards approaches make a formidable combination to address information needs.

Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS): A Review across States of India

Sarah Dwyer — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:42:07 +0000

Author's name:

Dr. Manju Shukla, Shalini Verma, Madhuri Narayanan, and David Potenziani

June 2014 (All day)

HRIS: A Review across States of India

India faces critical human resources shortages for key cadres such as doctors, specialists, nurses, and midwives. Other key challenges include suboptimal deployment of staff exacerbated by a skewed urban-rural distribution, gaps in certain specialties, and inefficient use of staff due to poor rationalization of tasks. Lack of comprehensive, reliable, and up-to-date data and an absence of commonly agreed definitions and analytical tools make the task of managing the health workforce more difficult. This study reviewed human resources information systems (HRIS) across all 28 states and 7 union territories to assess their purpose, scope, coverage, software technology, usability, and sustainability. The study points out the need for a national HRIS framework to move all states to a web-based platform with common technologies and data structures.

Better Data, Stronger Health Workforce: The Open Source iHRIS Approach

david — Mon, 05 May 2014 19:30:10 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

August 2014 (All day)

Better Data, Stronger Health Workforce

An overview of the free open source iHRIS platform of health workforce information tools and software. The iHRIS software suite consists of five interoperable applications that allow health workforce leaders and managers to plan, develop, and manage a health workforce efficiently and effectively to meet national or institutional health objectives.

iHRIS Train: An Open Source Tool for Managing Health Worker Training

Carol Bales — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:37:15 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

January 2014 (All day)

iHRIS Train Overview

An overview of iHRIS Train, open source software for managing data on the education of health professionals. iHRIS Train is part of the iHRIS software for health workforce management.

“That’s Improvement!”: Uganda Focuses on Health Workers

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:55:13 +0000

Author's name:

Carol Bales and Sarah Dwyer

September 2013 (All day)

Uganda video and related stories

In this short video, meet three Ugandan health workers who love their jobs. Agnes, Habiba, and Alex find joy in serving their clients, but they face many challenges—and there are simply not enough health workers to meet the demand. To improve health services, Uganda is focusing on the people that provide quality care. These efforts are paying off and service delivery has improved. Other countries can access the tools and approaches that Uganda has successfully used. The related website section includes stories, photos, and links to resources.

Championing a Regional Approach to Health Workforce Planning and Management

Sarah Dwyer — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:09:19 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus/IntraHealth International

August 2012 (All day)

Championing a Regional Approach to Health Workforce Planning and Management

This profile of Professor Kayode Odusote draws on CapacityPlus’s technical brief, West Africa’s Regional Approach to Strengthening Health Workforce Information. It is part of the Aspen Institute’s Council Conversation Series: Stories and Solutions.

iHRIS Manage: A Tool for Managing the Health Workforce

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 01 May 2013 20:15:33 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

May 2013 (All day)

iHRIS Manage Overview

An overview of iHRIS Manage, the HR management component of the iHRIS Suite. Using iHRIS Manage, decision-makers at the Ministry of Health, a district health office, or a health care facility can collect, manage, and analyze detailed information about employed health workers and applicants.

iHRIS Qualify: A Tool for Tracking Health Professionals and Their Qualifications

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 01 May 2013 20:15:04 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

May 2013 (All day)

iHRIS Qualify Overview

An overview of iHRIS Qualify, the health professional training, licensing, and certification component of the iHRIS Suite.

Outils de rétention des prestataires en milieu rural

Sarah Dwyer — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:23:16 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

March 2013 (All day)

Outils de rétention des prestataires en milieu rural

Beaucoup de pays éprouvent des difficultés à attirer et à retenir un nombre et des types de prestataires de soins suffisants capables de dispenser des services de qualité en milieu rural et dans les zones éloignées. Pour faciliter l’appropriation des approches au niveau des pays et plaider pour l’utilisation de données dans le cadre de la prise de décision, le projet CapacityPlus financé par l’USAID a développé deux outils : les outils d’enquête de rétention rapide et le logiciel iHRIS Retain qui va de pair avec ce document et qui a été développé en collaboration avec l’Organisation mondiale de la santé.

WHO Country Assessment Tool on the Uses and Sources for Human Resources for Health (HRH) Data

Sarah Dwyer — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:16:49 +0000

Author's name:

World Health Organization

October 2012 (All day)

WHO Country Assessment Tool on the Uses and Sources for HRH Data

There is widespread recognition of the need for accurate, timely, and effective human resources for health (HRH) data to inform the development of policies on HRH. However, many countries have weak information systems that can generate these data. This diagnostic tool contains questions intended to gather information on the uses, type, and quality of data on HRH at the institutional level in countries. The resulting information can then be used to identify priorities and develop strategies to strengthen human resources information systems at the district, regional, or national level. CapacityPlus contributed to the development of this resource through the WHO Health Workforce Information Reference Group (HIRG).

West Africa’s Regional Approach to Strengthening Health Workforce Information

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:31:11 +0000

Author's name:

Kayode Odusote, Carol Bales, Sarah Dwyer, and Dykki Settle

April 2012 (All day)

CapacityPlus Technical Brief #2 (PDF)

CapacityPlus Technical Brief #2 (Interactive Version)

The West African Health Organization is implementing a regional approach to strengthening health workforce information systems, leveraging resources from CapacityPlus, other USAID-funded projects, donors, and global organizations. This technical brief provides an overview of this approach, highlights lessons learned, and provides recommendations for other regions and countries to adopt the approach.

Access the interactive version or the PDF. Also read the related news. If you have any questions, please contact us.

Using Routine Human Resources Information Systems to Manage, Measure, and Monitor the Health Workforce

Sarah Dwyer — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:30:27 +0000

Author's name:

Dykki Settle, Carl Leitner, Carol Bales, and George Blair

December 2011 (All day)

Using Routine HRIS

This paper examines the effectiveness of USAID’s and IntraHealth International’s approach to using routine HRIS to strengthen the health workforce in low-resource settings. It appears as a chapter in a book containing all the papers presented at the International Conference on Research in Human Resources for Health, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 9-11, 2010. The book, O trabalho em saude: Abordagens quantitativas e qualitativas (eds. Célia Regina Pierantoni, Mario Roberto Dal Poz, and Tania França), is available at http://www.obsnetims.org.br/adm/arq/livro/2141551.pdf (7 MB).