Strategy 2: “Bayanihan” concept in information work
Strategy 5: Harnessing resources for sustainability through “bandwagon effect”
The Child Injury Surveillance System, now renamed Community Health Information Tracking Systems, or CHITS, is currently composed of close to 40 software components together with lookup data libraries. It includes ICD10 Diagnosis Coding with its own search engine, and the majority of modules was developed within a span of 3 months of intense software development activity. A separate research is being carried out to map reasons for encounter to ICPC-2 . The Child Injury Surveillance Module is now part of the this bigger application and is appropriately integrated into the “big picture” at the community level. This change in the project specification also effectively increased the contribution of the Medical Informatics Unit and the University of the Philippines when converted to financial value, in the overall funding picture. The original SMS portion of the project has been expanded to include clinical reminders which serves several modules. The module, Clinical Reminders, enables health center staff to send SMS messages generated from system templates to patients for follow-up and medication intake reminders. This appears to have the greatest use in three modules: Child Care for vaccination follow-ups, Maternal Care for prenatal follow-ups and anti-tetanus vaccinations and the National TB Program for the DOTS treatment protocol. The original proposal called for an SMS-based data collection system.