1. iHRIS: Open Source
HR Information
Solutions
Amanda Puckett BenDor and Carl Leitner
RHINO Forum
May 10, 2016

2. How to you use health worker information?
• To help understand
who is your
workforce, where
they are working
and what are their
skills
• Make interoperable
with other HIS data
to strengthen health
systems

3. What is iHRIS?
• iHRIS is open source
software used
manage health
workforce, training,
and regulatory
processes
• Works with other
parts of the health
information system
• Links to Health
Worker Registry

4. How is iHRIS used for Routine Data Collection
• Supports human resource management
business processes by supporting day-to-day
management of health worker information
(training, hiring, deployment)
• Facilitates routine
reporting of staffing
levels to HMIS

5. How is iHRIS unique from other software?
• Open source
• Designed for LMIC uses cases
• Highly customizable
• Standards compliant
• Global technical support community
• Adheres to Digital Development Principles – before they existed!

6. iHRIS and the HIS Architecture
Interoperability with other systems
– OpenHIE Health Worker Registry
– DHIS 2
– Part of mHero

7. What is the impact of iHRIS?
From this….. To this.

8. Impact of Routine iHRIS Use
• Cost Savings
– $232 million saved by using iHRIS, plus $51 million in annual license fees
– Millions saved around the world, identifying and eliminating ghost workers
and redundant staff and positions
• Advocacy
– Uganda used iHRIS data in 2013 to advocate for a $20 million recruitment
fund, filling more than 7,200 identified vacancies
• Workforce Planning
– Uganda uses iHRIS Train to better manage the training of nearly 30,000
health students
• Regulation
– Uganda Medical Council used iHRIS Qualify to increase re-licensure
compliance from less than 100 to more than 2,700 doctors – increasing
revenue from USD $100,000 to more than $500,000 per year
• Deployment for better services and efficiency
– The state of Jharkhand, India used iHRIS to identify & address staffing
shortages in OB/GYN & clinical officers in 60% of their facilities providing
services to 900,000 additional people
– Malawi MOH found only 4 mechanics serving 700 drivers in their motor
fleet. Increased recruitment to avoid moving people and tools throughout
country

9. iHRIS Manage
iHRIS flagship application,
Manage is the health workforce
management application
deployed in the most countries.
Key Users:
Ministries of Health, FBOs, Health
facilities administrators, and
private employers
Key Features:
• Personnel records
• Manage vacancies and
applicant records
• Upload scanned documents
and images
• Customizable Reports
Countries: 20

10. iHRIS Qualify
iHRIS’s second most deployed
application, Qualify is used by
health professional councils to
administer regulatory and
licensing processes.
Key Users:
Medical and Dental Councils,
Nurse and Midwifery Councils,
Laboratory Technician Councils
Key Features:
• Tracks out migration
• Tracks CPD
• Maintains employment
history
• Customizable Reports
Countries: 4

11. iHRIS Train
iHRIS Train emerged from the
expressed demand and
development effort of the global
iHRIS community. At first it was
primarily an in-service training tool
but recently became pre-service
institutional application as well.
Key Users:
Medical Schools, NGOs,
Government sponsored training
centers
Key Features:
• Maintains student, faculty and
staff records
• Assigns students and faculty to
courses
• Calculates and maintains
student report cards
• Customizable Reports
Countries: 4

12. iHRIS Community
Google
Group
Slack
Channels

13. Spread and Use of iHRIS Software

14. More examples of routine iHRIS Implementation
• iHIRS Nigeria – Supporting MLSCN with CME
– MLSCN version iHRIS Qualify linked to Moodle to track CPD including
payment for relicensing and courses
– Health Workers can track their own information
• Working with FBOs in Namibia
– Manage at 6 FBO Hospitals 800 HWs, though working to consolidate 4 CHS
hospitals into one instance. Consolidation through the HW Registry.
• Scale in DRC
– Over 11,000 health workers in two provinces in the system
– Used to identify ghost workers, retirement of health workers
• Setting up in Guinea
– iHRIS Manage installed in February 2014 during Ebola outbreak
• Scaling in Liberia
– iHRIS part of the national HIS Policy and Strategy in rebuilding the health
system
– 10,000 records in national instance; decentralization to the 15 counties is
underway

15. iHRIS and mHero
• mHero is a two-way
communication system allowing
Ministries of Health and health
workers connect via SMS
• Health Worker records from iHRIS
allow targeted communication
• mHero being scaled in Liberia
and soon to be piloted in Sierra
Leone and Mali
• Harnesses the Principles of Digital
Development

16. How many Zika
positive tests have
been confirmed?
25 Positive
cases in Zone
four – 3rd
week of
February
What kind of disease
agent causes Zika?
1)Bacteria 2)Virus
3)Toxin 4)Parasite
2) Virus
Could you
confirm that
you are an RN
and In Zone 4?
Yes, I am an
RN and in
Zone 4
Project II
mHero : Two-Way Health Worker Communication

17. mHero and Routine Data Collection
• Assists in data
collection of
informal indicators
that are not in HMIS
• Example: In Liberia,
being used to
collect data on
mental health care
services

18. Thank you!