African Health Ministers Commit to eHealth

Last month, a number of African health ministers recommitted to making more investments in the health sector, building greater health research capacity, accelerating the response to noncommunicable diseases, and employing eHealth technologies to improve the efficiency, quality, and use of health services, among other things. These commitments were made in the form of eight resolutions that resulted from the 54th Conference of the East, Central, and Southern African (ECSA) Health Ministers. The conference was sponsored by the East, Central, and Southern African Health Community (ECSA-HC).

One of the resolutions focuses on the innovative use of health information technologies and systems and is particularly relevant for CapacityPlus. CapacityPlus strengthens human resources information systems (HRIS) and develops and supports the iHRIS Suite of open source software that supplies health leaders with information to track, manage, and plan the health workforce...