DOST distributes ‘health tablets’ in Mindanao

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MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has distributed tablet devices in Mindanao that contain a health information support system to help local officials make better health-related decisions.

The ceremonial turn-over of the tablets dubbed as eHATID (eHealth TABLET for Informed Decision-making) was one of the highlights of the DOST’s Science Nation Tour roadshow MIMAROPA leg.

The eHATID LGU project is funded by the DOST’s Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD) in partnership with Ateneo de Manila University. It aims to support LGUs with the use of an Electronic Medical Record mobile application that generates reports for the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation and Department of Health. The tablet is said to ensure a more efficient patient record system that will save time and effort for both health workers and patients.

The device features a dashboard for real-time visualization through charts and graphs of the aggregated patient information in the LGU. It also features a mayor-doctor communication system as a channel for decision-making and sharing of health information. A health worker can also use the tablet offline to input patient records and then synch the encoded information later to a government cloud facility.

The island-province of Marinduque was the first in the region to fully adopt the eHATID LGU project which targets to deploy the tablet to 450 municipal and city LGUs by the end of 2015.

The project is a spin-off from the eHealth Tablet, which was piloted in ten sites two years ago. The current eHATID integrates the PhilHealth’s outpatient benefit package and claims system in the software.

Credits to: Jose Bimbo F. Santos | Interaksyon.com