iHRIS Data Result in Savings for Kenya ’s Kilifi County Health Sector

December 15, 2017The county is now saving over $150,000  per year, thanks to data discrepanciesrevealed by  iHRIS.In Kenya, the health workforce data provided through the integrated human resources information system (iHRIS) is turning fortunes around.When Kenya decentralized its health system management from one national hub to 47 individual county governments in 2013, young county departments of health found themselves struggling. They needed to identify, track, and monitor their workforces while facing looming staff shortages, labor disputes, and high recurrent expenditures in the form of salaries and allowances.Kilifi County was no exception.In 2013, the county relied on Excel data sheets to summarize its human resources for health (HRH) information. These data were static, unreliable, and only accessible to a few individuals, causing human resources officials to fall back on information stored haphazardly in personnel files or staff returns submitted monthly from health facilities that were not always accurate.It wasn ' t until April 2017 that the county began to fully appreciate the value of iHRIS.This constrained the county ’s planning, budgeting, and forecasting for its health workforce.Four years later, things are different in Kilifi, thanks toiHRIS, open source software built byIntraHealth International to manage health workforce data.Kilifi County adopted the system as a result of over three years of collaboration with IntraHealth, led by our USAID-fundedHuman ...
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