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    This document discusses building an ecosystem to provide sustainable eHealth capabilities in the Philippines. It faces challenges like a lack of local technical expertise. The solution involved north-south collaboration between MIT and a Philippine college, allowing students to work on health IT projects. This helped build skills while developing systems for organizations. The college also partnered with a local IT company, creating a pipeline of trained staff to work on further projects. These components helped address technical and cultural challenges while developing tailored systems for various health organizations in the Philippines over time.

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    This document discusses building an ecosystem to provide sustainable eHealth capabilities in the Philippines. It faces challenges like a lack of local technical expertise. The solution involved north-south collaboration between MIT and a Philippine college, allowing students to work on health IT projects. This helped build skills while developing systems for organizations. The college also partnered with a local IT company, creating a pipeline of trained staff to work on further projects. These components helped address technical and cultural challenges while developing tailored systems for various health organizations in the Philippines over time.

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    Building an Ecosystem to

    Provide Sustainable
    eHealth
    Technical Capability
    for the Philippines

    Jose Eugenio Quesada


    Context: The Need and the Challenges
    • The Need:
    – The Philippine government program to implement
    eHealth services on a national scale
    • The Challenges:
    – The lack of preparedness of Health Care Organizations to
    apply Information Technology on a technical,
    organizational, and cultural perspective.
    – The lack of local technical capability to develop,
    implement, and maintain I.T. Solutions for Health Care
    Organizations
    Technology Transfer through North-South Collaboration

    • Lack of familiarity with needs and opportunities


    – Mr. Quesada discovered GNU Health in 2012 when looking for an Open Source EMRS
    for a project for the Air Force General Hospital

    • Difficulty finding appropriate partners


    – Mr. Quesada established a partnership with GNU Solidario, and became a local
    partner for the Philippines.

    • Issues of Trust
    – Collaboration was started when Mr. Quesada met Dr. Luis Falcon, and ideas and plans
    were exchanged.

    • Communication and coordination challenges


    – Language barriers, disparate time zones, geographic distance, varied cultural norms

    • Financing-related issues
    – The Lean Startup methodology was used in order to sustain the project.
    Academe Collaboration with local Health Care Organizations

    • Asia Pacific College (APC) and its Project Based Learning (PBL) track
    – APC established its PBL track in 2001
    – Through the PBL track, students worked with real clients in various industries
    – The students built Information Technology solutions to address needs of
    their clients
    • Several Health Care Organizations were taken on as clients through PBL
    – Air Force General Hospital (AFGH), Philippine General Hospital (PGH)
    Department of Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) , Navotas City Hospital
    • I.T. Solutions applied to each Health Care Organization
    – GNUHealth for the Air Force General Hospital
    – SANA for PGH and the LGU
    The Information Technology needs of the Health Care Organizations

    • Air Force General Hospital of the Philippine Armed Forces


    – Requirement: The Medical Records department wanted an electronic
    medical record system to facilitate submission of reports required by the
    Department of Health (DOH) and the hospital management
    • Department of Otorhinolaryngology of the Philippine General Hospital
    – Requirement: The ENT department wanted to use SANA to capture patient
    information, including taking pictures of the affected area of the patient
    – The Philippine General Hospital had already implemented OpenMRS
    • Navotas City Hospital, the first Public Hospital for the City of Navotas
    – Navotas City Hospital was in need of a complete Hospital, Health, and
    Eletronic Medical Record System
    – Consultants from U.P. Manila recommended GNU Health as the Information
    System for the hospital
    Challenges Faced and Lessons Learned from Projects with local HCO’s

    • Challenges faced in the Air Force General Hospital project


    – Low levels of Information Technology skills and capability of the staff and
    management
    – Lack of knowledge and expertise by the students in Healthcare, and in GNUHealth

    • Lessons learned
    – Information Technology capability and skills need to be built up over a period of time
    – An organization cannot be expected to immediately adapt a new and complex
    technology if it is not ready for it

    • Challenges faced by the PGH-ENT dept and LGU project


    – Lack of experience by the students in customizing SANA to the project requirements
    – Lack of time with in the PBL track to complete the customization of SANA

    • Lessons Learned
    – A local, trained I.T. Provider should be ready to continue the projects
    Academe collaboration with a Local I.T. Company

    • In 2008 author started an Information Technology company


    – The company was staffed with students of the Professor, current and
    graduates.
    – Students from APC interned and worked at the company to gain experience
    in customizing, building, and implementing systems.
    – It was through this pipeline of training students first in school, then as
    interns at the author’s company, then hiring the most qualified students that
    a pipeline of trained technical manpower was establish ed to service the
    needs of the local I.T. industry.
    Local I.T. projects with Health Care Organizations
    • In 2010, the author set up Integrated Open Source Solutions (iOSS)
    as a corporation, and operations of the company expanded into
    doing many I.T. projects, both in the healthcare and various other
    industries.
    • Healthcare related projects of iOSS
    – A Hospital Information System (HIS) built from scratch for a 25 bed provincial
    hospital, Our Lady of Rosary hospital in Macabebe, Pampanga
    – An Electronic Medical Record System [EMRS] built from scratch for
    Noordhoff Craniofacial Foundation Philippines, Incorporated [NCFPI]
    – Localization, Customization, and implementation of GNU Health, and Open
    Source Hospital, Health, and Electronic Medical Record System for the
    Navotas City Hospital.
    Components for Building an Ecosystem
    • North-South collaboration
    – Massachusetts Institute of Technology SANA project with Asia Pacific College
    – Partnership and collaboration of iOSS with GNU Health (GNU Solidario)
    • Academe collaboration with local healthcare organizations
    – Asia Pacific College projects with the Air Force General Hospital, Philippine
    General Hospital ENT department, and Barangay Maybunga health clinic
    • Academe collaboration with local I.T. companies on healthcare projects
    – Asia Pacific College collaboration with Integrated Open Source Solutions for
    pipeline of trained I.T. manpower, and eHealth related projects.
    • Local I.T. companies work on I.T. projects with healthcare organizations
    – Integrated Open Source Solutions work on several eHealth related projects
    Conclusions:
    The Challenge of establishing and
    building relationships

    • North-South Collaboration
    • One Point Person
    • Meet HCO’s “Where They Are At”
    • Technical
    • Organizational
    • Cultural
    • Phases of HCO in I.T.
    •Imperative Need
    •Introduction
    • Absorption
    • Adoption
    • Institutionalization
    Some Pictures of current and past projects

    Air Force General Hospital EMRS Project Navotas City Hospital GNU Health
    Implementation Project

    Navotas City Hospital

    PNP NCRPO EMRS Project


    Thank You!

    Questions?
    Joe Gene Quesada
    Asia Pacific College
    Integrated Open Source Solutions

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