Pasay City adds two more health centers running on CHITS
San Pablo and MIA Health Centers join CHITS family
Pasay City's MIA and San Pablo join CHITS family.
Pasay City, Philippines – Two health centers, San Pablo and MIA, has joined the list of CHITS-installed health centers in this city that is now running on an electronic health record system that is the Community Health Information Tracking System or CHITS.
The automation of the two health centers was a collaboration between the Center for Health Development-Metro Manila (CHD-MM) of the Department of Health (DOH), University of the Philippines Manila – National Telehealth Center (UPM-NThC), and the Pasay City Health Office. The 4 workstations for each health facility were provided by the City Health Office while the training and other expenses were shouldered by the CHD-MM in cooperation with the UPM-NThC.
With the installation of CHITS in San Pablo and MIA, this brings to 10 out of 14 health centers in Pasay City that are now enjoying the benefits of having an electronic health record system for their constituents.
“On our first test run last August 11, we were able to admit 42 patients and 22 of them were general consults,” said San Pablo physician-in-charge Dr. Carl Antonio. “Mas mabilis and okay ang CHITS (It was faster and okay using CHITS).”
Hardware and software installation; and CHITS training in San Pablo and MIA were simultaneously conducted last August 2010 with the help of the City Health Office led by Dr. Marie Irene R. Sy (Medical Officer V), Rosendo Pantino (PHN II), Josie Tresvalles (PHN I), Rosario Panesa (PHN I) and UPM-NThC’s CHITS Coordinator Noel Bañez.
“Sa umpisa, may resistance pero may willingness to follow (At first there was resistance in using CHITS but there was willingness to follow),” expressed MIA’s Public Health Nurse Rutchell Dimapilis. Nakita din namin ‘yung convenience of the system (We saw the convenience of the system),” added Dr. Leslie Joy Tolentino of MIA Health Center on the use of CHITS in their health facility.
In May 2010, Pasay City had M. Dela Cruz and Kalayaan Health Centers join the roster of CHITS-installed health facilities in their city.
