Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP): Web Developer Roster

Job Description

The incumbent will be initially stationed at the prospective location. S/he could be posted anywhere in India as per the Project needs.

Overview of the Programme

WHO India Country Office collaborates with the Government of India and relevant stakeholders within the framework of the collaborative Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS), to actively support the development and implementation of national health policies, strategies and plans aiming at promoting access to and utilization of affordable and quality health services and improving financial protection against health-related risks.

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare - Government of India (MoHFW), with WHO technical support, has developed and implemented a web-enabled, near real-time electronic information system, called the Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP). The vision of IHIP is an essential part of India’s National Digital Health Plan. IHIP is designed to serve as a single, centralized mechanism to integrate health information across all health and health-relevant data from various national programs and entities.

Underlying Values and Core Functions of WHO

WHO’s mandate revolves around six (6) leadership priorities specifying (i) advancing universal health coverage (ii) health related sustainable development goals (iii) addressing the challenge of non-communicable diseases and mental health, violence and injuries and disabilities (iv) implementing the provisions of the International Health Regulations (2005) (v) increasing access to quality, safe, efficacious and affordable medical products (vi) addressing the social, economic and environmental determinants of health.

The South - East Asia Region (SEAR) of WHO is made up of 11 countries, with over 1.8 billion people, with India’s population of 1.3 billion. All the Member States of WHO/SEAR (Bangladesh, India, Bhutan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Indonesia, Maldives, Timor Leste, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Thailand), share the common value of the highest attainable standard of health as a fundamental human right. All of WHO actions are based on this and rooted in the underlying values of equity, solidarity and participation.

Mission of the WHO Country Office for India

The mission of WHO India is to improve quality of life of the 1.3 billion people in India by supporting the government in eliminating vaccine preventable and other communicable diseases, reducing maternal and neonatal mortalities, promoting healthy lifestyles, addressing determinants of health, preparing and responding to health emergencies and strengthening health systems for UHC.

WHO Country Office for India has supported the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to design, develop and deploy the Integrated Health Information Platform. Currently under IHIP three modules are functional:

Health Management Information System (HMIS): It is a Government to Government (G2G) web-based Monitoring Information System that has been put in place by MoHFW to monitor the National Health Mission and other Health programmes and provide key inputs for policy formulation and appropriate program interventions.

Integrated Disease Surveillance Program (IDSP): This is the module developed within IHIP which enables real-time disease surveillance and reporting from any electronic device for 33+ major outbreak-prone diseases.

Malaria (VBDC) module: IHIP module to monitor the malaria cases & control activities.

The current vacancy is to strengthen the IHIP IT team support to the MoHFW.

Description of Duties:

The incumbent will work under the overall guidance of the WHO Representative, Deputy Head of WHO Country Office for India, direct supervision of National Professional Officer (High Threat Pathogens) and overall supervision of Team Leader - (Health Security and Emergency Response). S/he will have the following responsibilities in her/his assigned area of work:

Provide technical support for day-to-day operations, maintenance and of all aspects of the application development and user credential management for Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) and related software modules including:

• Work in close coordination and under guidance of IHIP IT team to understand the IHIP architecture & functionalities and to use the same for development of new applications;
• Work closely with IHIP coordinators to understand the business process analysis;
• Write simple, reusable, testable & maintainable code with a focus on performance;
• Design, develop & deploy the new Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) applications;
• Track source code changes with Version control systems and follow agile development process and closely work with peers and Team Lead for seamless source code integration across team members;
• Provide support for day-to-day operations, maintenance, issues resolution, bug fixation, and of all aspects of the application development and user credential management for IHIP applications;
• Manage program-specific user credentials, creation of new users;
• Design and maintain the Helpdesk ticketing system and timely resolution of issues reported working at second level (L2);
• Develop APIs to facilitate data exchange between ABHA, PMJAY, eHospital System, MyHealthRecord, HFM dashboard, DISHA dashboard etc.;
• Update relevant master tables and information of public and private health facilities Update and maintain master geographic information system layers;
• Update all technical notes and documentations on all aspects of mobile and computer applications change management including version tracking of the assigned IHIP applications;
• Provide program-specific field technical support as necessary;
• Other related duties as deemed essential to support IHIP lead technical architect; and
• Undertake any other activities / tasks as assigned by the supervisors.

Qualifications, experience, skills and languages

Education :

Essential : Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or Computer applications or any related field

Desirable : Post graduate degree in computer science or in any of the fields related to the functions of the post

WHO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from accredited institutions. The list can be accessed through this link: http://www.whed.net/

Experience :

Essential : At least one year of demonstrable experience in project development with any national level health information systems or similar information system.

Desirable : Experience in application design, development, deployment & troubleshoot; Applicants having experience in working with government health departments, other health actors and working with UN agencies shall be at an advantage.

Competencies :

• Teamwork
• Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences
• Communication
• Producing results
• Moving forward in a changing environment

Functional Skills and Knowledge:

• A full stack JAVA/Angular developer having a broad knowledge of current web development technologies and design tools in the field, and new software and other web programming languages and programs including use of HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, AngularJS, amCharts, Leaflet etc.;
• Excellent understanding of IHIP platform or similar health information platforms and web/mobile-based application development and ability to identify and fix software bugs; and
• Ability to independently develop applications including but not limited to JAVA/J2EE, Springboot, Geoserver, Apache Tomcat, Docker, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, SQL Developer, PGADMIN, DBeaver, Putty and Jasper Reports and other tools.

Language Skills

Essential: Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English and working knowledge of at least one other national language will be an asset.

The deadline of applications is on 25 September 2022.