Projects
RxBox
RxBox is a telehealth system designed to provide better access to life-saving health care services in isolated and disadvantaged communities nationwide.
It is a multi-component program (biomedical device, electronic medical record system and telemedicine training) designed to provide better access to life-saving health care services in isolated and disadvantaged communities nationwide. It is one among the Department of Science and Technology’s efforts for a “Smarter Philippines”. It is also an ICT (Information and Communications Technology) innovation designed to support the Department of Health’s call for Kalusugang Pangakalahatan or Universal Health Care.
It is a multi-component program (biomedical device, electronic medical record system and telemedicine training) designed to provide better access to life-saving health care services in isolated and disadvantaged communities nationwide. It is one among the Department of Science and Technology’s efforts for a “Smarter Philippines”. It is also an ICT (Information and Communications Technology) innovation designed to support the Department of Health’s call for Kalusugang Pangakalahatan or Universal Health Care.
What can the RxBox do?
The RxBox is a telemedicine device capable of capturing medical signals through built-in medical sensors, storing data in an electronic medical record (Community Health Information Tracking System –CHITS), and transmitting health information via internet to a clinical specialist in the Philippine General Hospital for expert advice. It also catalyzes improvement in the local referral system by facilitating teleconsultations (audio- video conferences) within the National Telehealth Service Program. The RxBox can reduce the overall cost of healthcare by enabling health workers to diagnose, monitor and treat patients within the rural health facility, thanks to medical sensors inside the box!
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Community Health Information Tracking System (CHITS)
CHITS is an electronic medical record system built for and by the health workers. It is a secure and integrated electronic medical record system that reduces patient waiting time through efficient data encoding and records retrieval. It allows immediate and direct transmission of reports to the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation for faster processing of reimbursements to support the delivery of more responsive quality healthcare services for everyone, everywhere, at any time.
CHITS captures data at point of care capable of generating health dashboards reports on demand and immediate and direct transmission of electronic reports to national health insurance for claims reimbursements.
The Hearing for Life (HeLe) Project
The Hearing for Life Project, with official title, Increasing the Rates of Newborn Hearing Screening with Novel Technologies and Telehealth, is a collaboration among the University of California Davis and the University of the Philippines Manila (UPM) National Telehealth Center (for eHealth and telemedicine), UPM Philippine National Ear Institute (newborn hearing screening program), and the University of California Berkeley and UP Diliman Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute (device development and engineering) to provide the following:
A cost-effective hearing screening device with telehealth capability to be deployed to public primary health care facilities across the country,
A computer-based training module for training of health workers in remote communities,
A telereferral system that promotes service delivery network offering health care services in an integrated and coordinated manner within a province or a citywide health system.