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BROWSING: April 2008

Capacity Project HRIS Team Members Present iHRIS Software at Berkeley Conference 28 April 2008

On April 5, Dr. Pamela McQuide and Dykki Settle gave a presentation of the Capacity Project’s iHRIS Suite of software products at the 2008 Berkeley Conference on the Global Health Workforce: From Evidence and Research to Public and Health Care Industry Policy. The presentation, “Measuring and Monitoring the Health Workforce using Open Source Tools,” explored [...]

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Harnessing Open Source Software in African Healthcare Information Systems 23 April 2008

Open Source Software (OSS) is distributed under a license that gives users the freedom to run, study, modify and redistribute the code without restriction. Linux’s operating system, Apache Web server, MySQL database and PHP hypertext processing language are examples of common OSS in use today.
OSS can be easily customized to meet specific needs and can [...]

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Tanzania expresses strong interest in iHRIS Manage 18 April 2008

During a March and April 2008 visit to Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar several groups expressed interest in iHRIS Manage. First, Zanzibar is now running a customized version of the software on their new server. They requested assistance with additional customizations and intend to send three people to PHP training with Capacity’s funding [...]

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