CapacityPlus Contributes to eHealth Workshop in Ethiopia

Last month, our iHRIS team lead, Dykki Settle, participated in the Ethiopian eHealth Standards and Interoperability Workshop in Addis Ababa at the invitation of the World Health Organization. The workshop was hosted by the Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia and the WHO.

In collaboration with development partners, the Ministry of Health has already embarked on several eHealth initiatives, including health management information systems, electronic medical records, human resources information systems (HRIS), and telemedicine. The Ministry organized the workshop as a step toward developing appropriate health informatics standards and an architectural framework to ensure interoperability and scalability of these initiatives, as well as to focus on capacity-building of Ministry staff to foster sustainability.

Settle demonstrated our iHRIS Suite of free, Open Source software for planning and managing the health workforce:...