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The Philippines to Introduce Personal Controlled Health Data |
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futuregov.asia |
| Source Date: |
Tuesday, January 08, 2013 |
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ICT for MDGs
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Philippines |
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Jan 15, 2013 |
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Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) will introduce a Personally Controlled Health Records (PCHR) and allow its members to access and manage their own health information.
Commencing this year, the PhilHealth will release specification for the PCHR to enable the shift in health data management. This initiative is expected to recreate a patient-centric care as well as stimulating a new business sector on health data stewardship.
The PCHR will be owned by the patients and co-managed with their health providers such as hospitals and clinics. The new data system will empower patients to take care of their own health data and use it for better decision making. The system will be designed as a secure repository for health information for individuals and their families—an important compliance requirement of the recently passed Data Privacy Act 2012.
“Disease prevention and health promotion especially of our sponsored members are important to us at PhilHealth. The national government through the Department of Health has invested on the premium of more than 5 million families nationwide. We wish to empower our members to take charge of their family’s health and make informed decisions through proper data management,” says Dr Eduardo P Banzon, President and CEO of PhilHealth.
The PhilHealth is a tax-exempt government owned and controlled corporation under the Department of Health that to ensure a sustainable universal health coverage for the Philippines.
In April 2012, the PhilHealth launched the Primary Care Benefit (PCB) to its sponsored programme members, organised groups, and overseas workers in which it will eventually be rolled out for all types of members, to ensure access of all the members to health care services.
The PCB is now available at PCB providers including government health centres, rural health units and outpatient departments of government hospitals. Private health care providers will be brought in once the PCB is expanded to all member types.
Today, 5.2 million families under the National Household Targeting Survey are enrolled in more than 1,600 PCB providers around the archipelago.
Electronic reporting system is one of the innovations required to be in the PCB. In 2012, the PhilHealth partnered with the University of the Phillippines’ IT Development Centre, and University of Oslo to implement the District Health Information System (DHIS2). The DHIS2 serves as the receiving system for reports from the PCB providers.
The PhilHealth allocated more than PH₱ 3 billion (US$ 73.4 million) into developing the DHIS2 e-reporting system for the PCB in 2012 with its providers expected to submit reports electronically.
For the new PCHR, Dr Alvin Marcelo, Chief Information Officer of the PhilHealth faced challenges with resources and a requirement to implement the system in three months. He choose to partner with the academe for a fast implementation with a free and open source reporting system that would receive reports from the PCB providers.
“We selected DHIS2 because of its long history of success in Africa and for easy access to its core developers in Oslo, India, and Vietnam. The University of the Philippines provides local technical support and ready expertise in systems administration. With DHIS2, PCB providers can submit their data by logging on to the PhilHealth’s DHIS2 server from their Internet-connected computers including mobile phones,” added Dr Marcelo. “This year, the PhilHealth with the PCHR, we will simplify case management and equip individuals and their families to be more responsible for their health.”
The PCB e-Reporting system is the PhilHealth’s response to Health Agenda’s mandate of the President Benigno Simeon Ninoy Aquino, Jr to use ICT to make the health sector more efficient.
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