Capiz Province Embraces Hospital Informatics, Rolls out Electronic Medical Records

Governor Victor Tanco and PHO Sam Delfin graced the formal turn-over of computers from UP Manila National Telehealth Center to Mambusao General Hospital and Bailan District Hospital last October 7, 2010.

The turn-over was part of the Cost-benefit Analysis of Hospital Computerization project of the PanAsia Networking and Coolaboration on eHealth Applications (PANACeA) funded by the International Development Research Centre of Canada. The CBA aimed to quantify the value of automating patient registration vis-a-vis the costs that accompany it. It employed the free and open source  OpenMRS as the software behind the system.

Governor Tanco committed to hire a province-wide health informatics coordinator and to implement OpenMRS in all of the other three district hospitals. He also agreed to provide Internet to both hospitals as a preparation for the connection of OpenMRS to Philhealth.