CHITS featured in Municipal Mayors Forum at Asian Development Bank
September 8, 2010 8:00 am | by Noel Banez, RN | Posted in News
UPM-NThC offers CHITS to local chief executives
Dr. Alvin B. Marcelo, Director of UPM NThC presents CHITS to local government executives during the eGov4MD forum at the Asian Development Bank. (Photo courtesy of ePaniqui Online)
Mandaluyong City, Philippines – The Community Health Information Tracking System or CHITS, an e-Gov application for government health centers, was showcased in the 2nd Forum on E-Governance for Municipal Development (e-Gov4MD) at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Headquarters last September 6-7, 2010.
The two-day forum gathered more than 300 delegates of local government executives, planners, treasurers from 60 municipalities as well as CIOs, IT companies and professionals in the country. The theme echoed on “Achieving Good Governance through ICT-Enabled Public Administration.”
University of the Philippines Manila – National Telehealth Center’s Director Dr. Alvin B. Marcelo presented the electronic health record system for government health centers that is CHITS on the second day of the forum as part of the 3 e-Gov applications featured in the panel discussion. He discussed the benefits of CHITS to local government units and how it will also serve as a platform for telemedicine and e-Learning. The other two systems featured were the Local Governance Performance Management System by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) which aimed at local government service monitoring, and the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) which focused on poverty assessment.
At the end of the panel discussion, forum host Mayor Miguel C. Rivilla of Paniqui, Tarlac expressed, “My municipality of Paniqui, Tarlac will be forever grateful to Dr. Marcelo for having us chosen as one of the sites for CHITS.” He referred to a project launch of CHITS in the province of Tarlac last June 2010.
The e-Gov4MD Forum and General Assembly also witnessed the Aquino administration’s effort to invest in ICT as echoed by Vice-President Jejomar C. Binay who closed the forum: “We should make e-Governance as the cornerstone to empower our people.” He also expressed his hope that “civil societies to build bridges between public-private partnerships to be catalysts of change and the engine of national development and growth.”
E-Governance for Municipal Development (e-Gov4MD) was organized by the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP), Mayor’s Development Center (MDC), Chief Information Officers Forum (CIOF), and the Chief Information Officers Forum Foundation (CIOFF), and was supported by the Asian Development Bank.
