Table 5 Key digital and governance features of HRHIS in Kenya
Digital solutions | Governance/leadership |
|---|---|
• iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Train track human resources and training • Includes community health workers and volunteers • rHRIS is the regulatory HRIS at the health professional councils • DHIS2 tracks health management information • Integrated personnel and payroll database (IPPD) used for hiring personnel and paying staff • NHWA standards-based indicators track SDGs • WISN used to determine health workers required by facilities based on actual workload • iHRIS, rHRIS, DHIS2, IPPD interoperable at county level; rRHIS and iHRIS Train interoperable | • Key policies: Kenya Health Sector HRH Strategy; applying Third Global Forum on HRH commitments; guidelines for sharing specialists across counties; Health Act 2017 for eHealth and mHealth; Ministry of Labor guidelines for recruitment and hiring of health workers • HRH Unit and Director at county level • Master training program to train and coach management team in areas of HRH data analysis and decision-making, WISN, budgeting, planning, and forecasting • Work councils established to deal with workforce labor issues • HRH Stakeholder Coordination Forum with interministerial, intersectoral, and county members uses data from NHWA and is a model for creating a multi-stakeholder platform County HRH Maturation Evaluation Tool provides key markers in transition from donor funding |