iHRIS Plan Features List

Features Planned for Version 1.0 (July 2008)

Version 1.0 is intended to be an early pilot of iHRIS Plan. This pilot will be tested in Namibia and reviewed by workforce planning experts. Version 2.0 features will be prioritized based on their feedback.

  • Define one or more pools of human resources by health worker cadre based on current health workforce data
  • Project workforce supply for any number of years by specifying the number of health workers projected to leave or join the workforce each year
  • Project health workforce targets based on population change
  • Generate models showing the gaps between actual workforce changes and project workforce needed over time
  • Project costs of needed health workers
  • Print models or export data in an Excel-compatible format
  • Issue password-protected logins to allow only authorized users to access the data
  • Log username, data and time when data are entered or changed for auditing purposes

Features Planned for Version 2.0 (2009)

  • Wizard interface to guide new users through creating a projection
  • Extensive on-screen help
  • Incorporate current training data into the health worker pool to improve projected health worker supply
  • Define interventions such as changes in HRH policies and model interventions' effects on the workforce
  • More robust reports including a workforce plan template
  • Windows (offline) version

Requested Features

These features have been requested but not have been scheduled for development. They will be prioritized based on feedback to Version 1.0.

  • Enforce dual data entry to reduce data entry errors
  • Validate data at the point of entry to reduce data entry errors
  • Provide guidance to help users with making credible assumptions where data are lacking
  • Enable users to input more data, if available, and generate more complex, robust and sophisticated projections by adding in other components of the WHO HRH Workforce Projection Model
  • Add support for other projection models
  • Project one-time workforce needs such as a facility opening
  • Provide alternate paths for short-term, detailed projections and long-term projections showing larger trends
  • Analyze health workforce data by gender, age, public or private sector, geographical location, facility or institution type
  • Project the health workforce at the regional level
  • Project in-service and pre-service training capacity
  • Project needs for targeted services
  • Model the impact of demographic, epidemiological or labor market changes on the health workforce
  • Save models showing different combinations of interventions
  • Compare actual results to projected models
  • Link results to maps
  • Assign roles to users to control who can enter, correct, manage and model data

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The information provided on this website is not official U.S. Government information and does not represent the views or positions of the U.S. Agency for International Development or the U.S. Government. HRIS Strengthening is a program of the Capacity Project, a USAID-funded global project designed to strengthen human resources for health. The Capacity Project partnership is led by IntraHealth International, Inc.