Kenya Now Uses iHRIS Software to Manage PEPFAR Health Workforce

January 08, 2020The government of Kenya is now using IntraHealth’siHRIS software to manage 25,000 health workers contracted through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).IntraHealth already supports national and county governments in managing Kenya’s 67,000 public sector health workers using iHRIS through the USAID-fundedHumanResources for Health KenyaMechanism. But now that use is expanding.HIV testing, care, and treatment in Kenya is heavily PEPFAR-funded. As part of USAID’s Journey to Self-Reliance, which emphasizes localization, the government of Kenya is increasing support and management of its health workforce—and it’s using iHRIS to do so. The free, open source software helps countries around the world track and manage their health workforce data to improve access to services." With reliable data in iHRIS, planning and budgeting can ensure PEPFAR staff are absorbed into the government payroll, " says IntraHealth’s iHRIS manager, Francis Mbate.Previously, PEPFAR collected personnel data using spreadsheets, then aggregated them for analysis. But this system was problematic.“The challenge with this model is that it introduces a lot of data entry errors,” Mbate says.“And it’s time-consuming, since the data must be aggregated at a single source.”But iHRIS allows users to upload their data while the system validates the entries and ensures high-quality data output. Then the software agg...

Source: IntraHealth International - January 8, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbishopp Tags: Kenya Human Resources for Health (HRH) Kenya Program HIV & AIDS Digital Health Technology HRIS Health Workforce Systems Health Workers Source Type: news