On February 20, 2019, President Rodrigo Duterte signed the passage of the Universal Health Care (UHC) Law or Republic Act No. 11223. The UHC Law aims to ensure that all Filipinos will be guaranteed quality and affordable health care while being protected from financial risks and hardships. The UHC Law mandates that every Filipino citizen…
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In 2030, a patient will enter a clinic to have his regular check-up. Upon entering the clinic, the receptionist nurse will bring out her phone and ask the patient for a copy of his ID for the ID number. The nurse will just scan the ID using an application she downloaded online for free. She…
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In 2015, during a Regional Interoperability Meeting hosted by the Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN) in Manila, Philippines, representatives from ministries of health agreed that to attain full interoperability among health information systems, there is a need to form an interoperability lab in each country. A health interoperability laboratory is a facility focusing on the…
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Part of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Digital Health Impact Framework(DHIF) project is the application of DHIF model in four digital health initiatives: Strategic Affordability Model Immunization Information Systems (IIS) Model – Country Level Immunization Information Systems (IIS) Model – Urban District Immunization Information Systems (IIS) Model – Rural District In these models, they used…
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User manuals with lots of examples can be helpful. The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Digital Health Impact Framework (DHIF)User Manual is a combination of techniques and examples taken from six illustrative models: SMS for maternal and child health mHealth for telemedicine for a current patient catchment area mHealth for telemedicine with an expanded catchment areas…
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