More Pasay health centers join CHITS family
June 1, 2010 5:38 am | by Noel Banez, RN | Posted in Features
M. Dela Cruz and Kalayaan Health Centers now running on CHITS.
Public Health Nurse II Rosendo Pantino (right) facilitates CHITS orientation to Kalayaan and M. Dela Cruz health care workers.
In May 10, 2004, the Community Health Information Tracking System or CHITS was pilot-tested in Pasay City. Six years after, health centers in M. Dela Cruz and Kalayaan join the roster of Lagrosa, Malibay, Doña Marta, Villamor, San Isidro, and Doña Nena as health centers in Pasay City which are now running on the electronic medical record system developed for government health centers.
Logistics and training was spearheaded by the Pasay City Health Office led by Dr. Peachy Sy with Public Health Nurses Rosendo Pantino (PHN II) of Lagrosa and Josefa Tresvalles (PHN I) of Malibay facilitated the orientation and workshop for the health care workers of M. Dela Cruz and Kalayaan.
The CHITS orientation gathered the health care workers from both health centers at the conference room of the Doña Marta Health facility last May 31, 2010. The orientation consisted of an overview on CHITS, attributes of good data quality interspersed with games which enable them to develop team work.
“Nangangapa pa kami ‘nung una (Initially, we were clueless),” admits Dr. Charito Julaila of Kalayaan Health Center on the first day of their five-half days of CHITS training. “Pagkatapos malaman namin ‘yung 6 basic steps, okay na kami (After we learned the 6 basic steps, we were fine.) The health care teams were taught the CHITS basic steps on patient registration, family folder assignment, household head designation, consultation, and PhilHealth number assignment.
After the health care workers learned the basic rudiments of CHITS, the succeeding days of their training were devoted on the use of the Maternal Care, Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI), and the National Tuberculosis Program (NTP) modules. They utilized the workstations installed in their health centers as they encoded patients and practiced the modules with the assistance of the city’s public health nurses which include Rosendo Pantino, Josefa Tresvalles, Rotchie Paneda; Noel Bañez of UP-NThC and software developer Earl Justin Garcia.
Implementation of CHITS in the health care centers were initiated as soon as the training was done. “Nalilito kami ng konti pero mabilis ‘yung system. Exciting siya kasi napapabilis lahat (We were a little bit confused but the system is fast. It is exciting because it speeds up everything),” enthuses Charito Lechico (PHN I) of M. Dela Cruz Health Center. “Magaling nag-train din sa amin kaya nakaya namin (Our trainers were good. That is why we were able to cope with it.)”
With 8 out of 14 health centers in Pasay City that are currently running on CHITS, Dr. Sy is optimistic that they will be able to install the system in all of their health centers to render quality, effective patient record system and delivery of health care to their residents.
