LGUs in Negros Oriental recently got a dose of a different kind of medicine.
Municipal and city health officers and other local government unit representatives received tablets–the electronic kind–from the Department of Science & Technology through the Ateneo de Manila University.
The hand-held computers were awarded during a deployment and training activity conducted by the AdMU team held July 3at the Bethel Guest House here.
The training was for the second and last batch of participating LGUs consisting of Amlan, Bais City, Basay, Guihulngan City, Jimalalud, San Jose, Sibulan, Zamboanguita.
The 17 other LGUs had received their tablets during a similar activity held in May.
Two tablets per LGU have been deployed–one for the local health officer and one for the local chief executive. The devices have a special mobile application that allows for the entry and retrieval of public health information via an Internet cloud (computerized databases).
The devices and software are part of a technology package under AdMU’s DOST-funded project called eHATID LGU, which stands for eHealth TABLET (Technology-Assisted Boards for LGU Efficiency & Transparency) for Informed Decision-Making.
eHATID LGU is the enhanced version of eHealth TABLET, a tablet-based electronic medical record system and a local health dashboard which was piloted in 2013 to 10 selected municipalities nationwide. The eHealth TABLET application is primarily used for patient data encoding and retrieval.
In 2014, AdMU began enhancing the system as a Health Information Support to LGUs through an Electronic Medical Record mobile application that can generate reports for the PhilHealth Primary Care Benefit package 1 and field health service information.
Now called as the eHATID LGU, this project is targeted to be deployed in 450 municipalities and cities nationwide including the DOST priority sites, LGU sites of the eHealth TABLET project, and the identified sites of the project partners (i.e. PhilHealth and the LGU Leagues).
In Negros Oriental, Bacong LGU so far has registered online the highest number of patients (235) and consultations (286).
The national topnotcher is San Jose LGU of Antique, an eTABLET pilot LGU, with 4,958 patients and 6,720 consultations reported. (DOST)
