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PH Health Informatics

The document discusses health informatics in the Philippines, including education programs offered by universities, integration into nursing education, and training programs conducted by organizations. It also covers the establishment of PHIN to promote collaboration among health organizations and the DOH's National eHealth Strategic Framework to support universal healthcare through ICT.

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PH Health Informatics

The document discusses health informatics in the Philippines, including education programs offered by universities, integration into nursing education, and training programs conducted by organizations. It also covers the establishment of PHIN to promote collaboration among health organizations and the DOH's National eHealth Strategic Framework to support universal healthcare through ICT.

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HEALTH INFORMATICS

IN THE PHILIPPINES
De La Salle University, the
EDUCATION University of Santo Tomas,
St. Luke's College of
Medicine, and Ateneo de
Manila University offer
courses and programs in
health informatics as part of
their curriculum.

The Philippines has


integrated health
informatics into nursing
education, with a landmark
policy issued by the
Commission on Higher
Education in 2009.

Various seminars and training


programs are conducted by
institutions like the National
Telehealth Center (NTHC) to
educate students and
healthcare professionals on
health informatics.

Other organizations and


institutions, such as the Asian
Institute of Management, The
Medical City, and My Health
Clinic, provide training
programs and telemedicine
ENABLING eHEALTH services to healthcare
professionals.

PHIN was established in


The development of 2005 to promote
eHealth in the Philippines collaboration among
has been made possible different organizations
through collaboration involved in health
among various sectors, information. It aims to
including government create a comprehensive
agencies, academia, and and coordinated health
the private sector. and nutrition information
Networks like PREGINET system and improve the
have played a vital role in use of information and
facilitating high- communications
bandwidth internet technology (ICT) in
exchange. healthcare.

Orgs like the Philippine


Medical Informatics DOH has prepared a
Society and the National eHealth
Informatics Nurses Society Strategic Framework
of the Philippines are (2010-2016) to support
actively involved in universal healthcare
promoting health through the use of ICT. It
informatics in the country. emphasizes capacity
They advocate for open- building among the
source development, health workforce and the
knowledge sharing, and need to build ICT
the use of ICT in infrastructure.
healthcare.

Fernandez-Marcelo, P. G., Ho, B. L., Faustorilla Jr, J. F., Evangelista, A. L., Pedrena, M., & Marcelo, A. (2012). Emerging eHealth directions in the Philippines. Yearbook
of Medical Informatics, 21(01), 144-152.

Marcelo, A. B. (2007, January). Health Informatics in the Philippines. In Medinfo 2007: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics;
Building Sustainable Health Systems (pp. 2481-2483). Amsterdam: IOS Press.

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