CHITS - A Finalist in the Stockholm Challenge 2006
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The project on Community Health Information Tracking System (CHITS) in the Philippines, initiated as an ICT R&D Grants Programme, is this year's finalist in the Stockholm Challenge under the "Health" category. CHITS was carried out to improve health care delivery in the public health sector through the development of a computer-based information system for community health centers using open source software and local capacity building.
The Community Health Information Tracking System (CHITS) is an extensible, modular system that leverages existing routine health information systems (vertical programs) in public health to serve as a starting point for implementing comprehensive information system integration. Through CHITS, community-based health information is made available not only to public health agencies requiring community level information but also to the community itself which generates the information. It enables the community to use this information for local decision-making.
As a system, it consists of the following:
- A software development platform called Generic Architecture for a Modular Enterprise (GAME) that allows developers to create plugin, uploadable modules to the CHITS intranet application.
- The CHITS application itself, which is a modular, multilingual, computerized patient record.
- Training modules for the different stakeholders: community health workers, municipal/physician health officers and city health officers and staff.
- Modules to integrate the different Philippine vertical public health programs: EPI, Maternal and Child Health, National TB Program, Philhealth Indigent Program, National Notifiable Diseases, Electronic Report/Graph Generation for the different modules and others
- In addition, it has modules for Electronic Patient Records, Health Center Calendar and Appointment System, SMS Clinical Reminder System
Winners of the Stockholm Challenge Award 2006 will be announced on 11 May 2006.
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