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7. 7. Comm Community-Based Comm unity-Based Injur Injury Injur Sur Surveillance Sur eillance Trac ac acking ac king System System (Philippines) (Philippines) Project Budget Grant Awarded: US$ 22,642 Supplementary Grants The implementing organization contributed US$ 8,127. The Pasay City Health Office contributed US$ 2,095, and Smart Communications contributed US$ 130. Project Purpose Improve health care delivery in the public health sector in the Philippines through the development of a computer-based information system for public health centers. Project Objectives The general objective of a low cost electronic information system is achieved through the following steps: 1) Design and develop an extensible and customizable computer-based information system for the local health unit level using open source tools; 2) Design and develop professional training program for community health workers; and 3) Engage community in child injury prevention activities Target Audience The prospective users are community health workers in Pasay City, and the local government officials who will be receiving the health reports generated by the system. These reports will be useful for decision-making at the local level. Community Health Information and Tracking System Project Output Software for the Computer-based Information System for Health Centers, Curriculum for introducing the concept of health information systems, Administrator’s manual and various training programs for health workers. Hardware & Software The open source software used were: Linux operating system, PHP Hypertext Pre-processor, Apache webserver, MySQL database management system. A generic architecture for modular enterprises (GAME) was also developed to make further expansion of the CHITS easy for any developer with a modicum of training in scripting languages. Impact The overall impact is positive because it has made data collection, consolidation and presentation easier for the local health centers. They are now more amenable to looking at their data and interpreting their outputs and reports. The Project Team The CHITS team from Medical Informatics Unite of University of the Philippines was led by Associate Prof. Herman D. Tolentino, MD, with team members: Alvin B. Marcelo, MD, Inocencio D.C. Maramba, MD, MSc, Portia F. Marcelo, MD, MPH, Malou San Juan, MD, Ma. Irene Sy, MD, MPHC, Armand Lee, MD, Marvin Yoingco, MS (cand.), Ariel Betan, MA, MS (cand.). The partner organizations are Pasay City Health Office under Dr. Pilar Perez, and Infocom under Ferry Tolentino. Contact Address Medical Informatics Unit, College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila, 547 Pedro Gil Street, Ermita, Manila 1000, Philippines. E-mail: hermant@l-manila.com.ph Website: http://www.chits.info CHITS project team. Left to right: Ariel Betan, Marvin Yoingco, Alison Perez, HermanTolentino, and Cito Maramba (Alvin Marcelo not shown) www.chits.info 32
Lo Low-cost Lo w-cost Inf Infor Inf or orma or ma mation ma tion System System f ffor f or Healthcar Healthcare Healthcar e Deli Deliver Deli er ery er A busy day at the health center Project Background Setting up responsive communitybased health information systems is a challenge for any national system integrating information technology in healthcare. The Community Based Child Injury Surveillance System project aim was initially to create a data collection system using short messaging service with mobile phones. The project started 1997 when the Medical Informatics Unit (MIU) of the University of the Philippines Manila was created to monitor the implementation of a local area network of the UP College of Medicine. Since its inception, the MIU has developed several information system projects in support of efficient and effective health care information systems. In 2002, the MIU developed software to integrate the disease surveillance systems of six countries in the Mekong Basin. The members thought doing the same with the public health information systems in the Philippines would be a good idea. So the following year MIU developed a proposal for an SMS-based child injury surveillance system to integrate the community health workers into the community. MIU called the project the Child Injury Telephony-based Surveillance System (CHITS) and submitted the proposal to PANASIA for funding. The original project started with a technology-driven agenda, but the problems in the community needed a much broader approach with wider community support. The project team changed the specifications to address those requirements and designed a extensive system architecture to bridge the public healthcare and primary care information systems. Instead of a mobile phone based system, the project team created a computer-based information system that primarily serves the needs of the health center facility and secondarily that of the national public health system. The project was renamed CHITS (Community Health Information and Tracking System) and was redesigned to circumvent issues associated with the original strategy such as constraints in economics (cost of sending messages) and existing national and local health policies (only government health centers can submit official health data). Using community immersion, systems analysis, joint rapid application development, onsite technical assistance and grassroots-oriented training,CHITS was piloted in two of the thirteen health centers in Pasay City. CHITS had two major components: 1) an extensive and customizable software engine for health facilities, and 2) a training program for health center staff and community health workers. The project team selected one poor urban community from Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines for this project. Community health workers in CHITS team at work Pasay City, are among the beneficiaries of this project. . Local government officials who receive the health reports generated by the system also benefit from the CHITS program. The officials can use the reports for governmental and local community level decisions. 33 Community Health Information and Tracking System
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