Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
DENTISTS
20000
16000
DOCTORS MEDICAL
14000
MIDWIVES PROFESSIONAL
12000
NURSES PROFESSIONAL
10000
OPTOMETRISTS AND
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8000
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OPTICIANS
6000 PHARMACISTS
2000
TECHNICIANS MEDICAL X-RAY
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CAREGIVERS AND
CARETAKERS
Where do they go?
• Traditional Markets: Middle East, North
America
• New Markets: Europe especially UK,
Netherlands, High Income Asia
• Emerging Markets: Japan and Nurse
Education abroad
Proposed solution to the situation
• Regulate the outflow of health professionals
• Increase health budget, improve the salaries &
working conditions of health
workers/professionals
• National Health Service Act (2-year service in
the Philippines)
• Compensation from receiving countries
• Bilateral agreements with Receiving Countries
• Establishment of Health professional registry
• Development of new career opportunities
IT in Health care another
solution…
• improving health services through IT
• Improved health through data for evidence-
based decision-making
• Better measurement, through strengthened
health information and statistical systems
• Network to unify partners and resources for
improved health information
• Better data - better decisions - better health
On going projects in IT
• Regulatory – BFAD, Drug testing..
• Service delivery – Hospital operation,
Blood Bank, Filariasis, Malaria, disease
registries, surveillance systems..
• Governance- Procurement & Logistics
Management, e-NGAs, KM tools, Work &
Financial Plan Health Atlas, Local Health
System, GIS, HR..
VALDEZ, 2007
Health Information
System
• Public health data Comprehensive
• Hospital data Approach
•Disease Surveillance
•Health Accounts
Health
•Censuses Information
•Vital Statistics System
(ICT)
•Survey Data
•Regulation Data
•Administrative Data
•Qualitative Data such as Good
Practices
•Journals, Manuals, other gray
materials
VALDEZ, 2007
Activities Undertaken
• Establishment of Philippine Health Information Network
(PHIN)
• Customization of Health Metric Network (HMN)
assessment tool
• Central office inventory of existing ISs
• NEC started integration of Disease Surveillance
Systems
• BLHD spearheading skills development &
documentation of good practices
• Draft framework for ISs technical integration
• Development of the Knowledge Management (KM) for
Health Strategy
• KM tool kits defined and started development
• Health portal (interactive website)
Philippine Health Information
Network
• DOH • DILG
• NSO • WHO
• NSCB • GTZ
• PCHRD • JICA
• UPCM • Academe
• POPCOM • Medical societies
• National Nutrition
Council
• FNRI
PIHIS Strategic Framework
Data Beneficiaries
National Other Government Private Research Other
DOH Academe
Government Agencies Organizations Groups Stakeholders
Information Access
Health
Health Regulation
Health
Governance
Systems
DOH Data Systems
Health Program Warehouse Health Service
Management
Delivery Systems
Systems
Information Access
Standard Data Indicators, Definitions,
Formats, Transmission Protocols, Policies
and Guidelines
Standard Source of Data
Providers
Service