The Department of Health (DOH) together with the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) hosted the 5th Philippine eHealth Summit last June 3, 2016 at the Philippine International Convention Center, Pasay City. With the theme “eHealth Philippines: Big Data, Big on Privacy”, the event became a platform for information dissemination and sharing of the current eHealth related development in the country. Furthermore, concerns on data privacy and big data in relation to the implementation of Data Privacy Act of 2012 and health information exchange, proposed e-health bill and the next 6-years health research agenda were tackled.

This also became a venue to gather information technology and medical practitioners nationwide in order to present the next steps to sustain the Philippine eHealth Strategic Framework and Plan.

During his opening remarks, Dr. Montoya, Executive Director of Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD) highlighted technologies such as RxBox and eHatid. He emphasized that the council supported these technologies to reach out to every Filipino in the country-side.

There were parallel and plenary sessions to further elaborate the objective of the event. Dr. Peter Sy from UP Diliman presented “Health Information Exchange, Big Data Research and Data Privacy” during the panel discussion. In the parallel sessions, topics were Healthcare Analytics and Data Privacy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking, Transparency and Right to Privacy presented by Dr. Pedro P. San Diego, Jr. of Philippine Heart Center for the session Health Data Analytics and Data Privacy; eHealth Bill for the 17th Congress presented by Ms. Crispinita A. Valdez of Department of Health for the session eHealth Bill and Assessment of the ICT in Health Research Agenda, 2011-2016 and Drawing up the Medium-Term eHealth Research Agenda, 2017-2022 presented by Dr. Alvin D. Marcelo of UP Manila for the session eHealth Research Agenda, 2017-2022.

The event also became a venue to award the winners of the #ThinkOpenHealth Hackathon Event which was conducted last April 16-17 at the Asian Institute Management (AIM) Conference Center.

This year’s eHealth Summit was participated by Dr. Warlito C. Vicente, Regional Health Research and Development Consortium XI (RHRDC XI) Chairperson and Mr. Gregorio Candelario, from Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) and member of the consortium’s ICT Technical Working Group.

A one-day training and pre-test activity spearheaded by the Research Information and Utilization Committee Division (RICUD) of PCHRD-DOST (Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Health Research and Development) was conducted last May 24, 2016 at the Waling-Waling Hall 1, Mindanao Training & Resource Center (MTRC), Davao Medical School Foundation,Inc. This is part of the monitoring system developed by the Philippine National Health Research System (PNHRS) based on its 5-year strategy map. The main objective of the said activity was to get feedback from the researchers in order to develop effective tools. These tools will be in the form of questionnaires which will aid in getting the whole picture of the status of health related researches in the region and the alignment of the consortium’s plan to the system plan.

The meeting was formally opened by Dr. Victoria Lupase, Chair of Research Information and Utilization Committee of RHRDC XI. She pointed out the need of such tool in gathering baseline data and the effort RIUC exerted during the preliminary stage of its preparation. On the other hand, Ms. Merla Opeña, Chief of RICUD of the PCHRD-DOST presided the said meeting. Ms. Opeña said that the forms that will be generated will be used not just for the PCHRD but also for other institutions (e.g. NEDA, CHED, etc.) asking the same information as well. It will also be done annually to ensure continuity and to keep all the information up to date.

 

The project’s consultant, Dr. Ophelia P. Saniel of UP Manila College of Public Health introduced that four forms to the attendees which are intended for the consortium, institution, researcher and research project respectively. The participants were then divided into 3 groups to discuss. Each group was given the opportunity to give feedback, clarify and suggest changes in order to make the form more effective.

 

RHRDC XI is just one of the four consortium that was chosen for this pre-test activity before it will be made available to all. The output of the pre-test activities will be consolidated as part of the System report which will be presented during the PNHRS Week celebration on August 9, 2016.

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