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Non-Internet-dependent (offline) versions of the IntraHealth-led Capacity Project’s iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify software programs have been publicly released on the Project’s HRIS Strengthening website feature. iHRIS Manage is a human resources management system and iHRIS Qualify is a training, certification and licensure tracking database. The offline version of iHRIS is intended to be used in locations where Internet access is unavailable or very slow. It can be installed on a Windows computer without requiring a server and supports decentralizing HR information management. Data from the offline version may be made available for the central server-based version of either iHRIS Manage or iHRIS Qualify using a data import and export feature. Offline iHRIS Manage will be piloted and tested in several Rwanda districts over the next few months.

The OBOJ Foundation, which supports the open source software community through fund and awareness raising events, honored IntraHealth International with an event on June 14. This fundraiser, which ran from 11:00 am to sundown, included live music and the “best barbeque in the Triangle” (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, USA). IntraHealth has developed open source solutions to strengthen health care human resources information systems and additional open source initiatives are planned. (More . . . )

The IntraHealth-led Southern Africa Human Capacity Development (SAHCD) Coalition is improving the health workforce productivity through facilitated quality improvement interventions, pre- and in-service training as well as strengthening result-oriented leadership in Southern Africa. SAHCD has also adopted a web-based information system to monitor and evaluate the progress of health facilities in Southern Africa. Aspects of this work were presented at the 46th East, Central and Southern African (ECSA) Conference of Health Ministers. (More . . . )