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Healthcare IT

Philippine city to implement health information tracking system

By Adrienne Valdez | 12 September 2011

Quezon City Health Department launched the Php 8.5 million (about US$200,000) Community Health Information Tracking System (CHITS) developed by the University of the Philippines, with the memorandum of agreement signed today.

CHITS is to aggregate relevant health information from 5 health districts, 7 lying-in clinics, 3 social hygiene clinics, and 63 health centres without using papers, folders and envelopes. This enables more than 3 million residents to have their consultation and health care services record stored and retrieved electronically.

Quezon City Health Department, City Health Officer Dr Antonieta Inumerable said in an official statement, “We can easily address the problem in a click of a button; unlike before, when we had to call our district supervisors to submit reports. Now they can concentrate in the monitoring and easily apply preventive measures.”

CHITS has programmes that could store data on typical health centre services such as consultation, maternal and child health, immunization, anti-tuberculosis, dental, family planning, leprosy, laboratory and notifiable diseases.

“We are improving the systems of the city government, moving towards digitisation, and the health department is part of that. The project took about a year of preparation; we wanted the system to suit the needs of our city,” City Mayor, Herbert Bautista told FutureGov in an interview.

The system also features a PhilHealth module which monitors health services rendered to its members and dependents. It automatically generates reports that are compliant with the Department of Health’s Field Health Service Information System, and a drug inventory system for Quezon City’s health department.

The automation of Quezon City’s health information system is aligned with the national government’s five-year Philippine Digital Strategy 2011-2016 which aims to use information and communications technology in promoting efficiency in the delivery of public service, including health care.

Through this project, “most populous city in the Philippines” is the first urban city to automate its entire health department in the country.

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