Project Description

Electronic Documentation Community or E-DocMUnity, the goal of this project is to improve the quality
of care, make documentation or application easier, to improve the flow of information quality and
enhance the users the users experience in managing the records. E-DocMunity helps people, to locate
records easily, collaborate more efficiently, and update records without multiple copies in various
different locations. The primary aim of E-DocMunity is to facilitate seamless care for clients by providing
a way to capture and access real-time client data. EHRs can improve interprofessional communication,
coordinate care among providers, and foster effectiveness and efficiency in care. E-DocMunity can help
eliminate gaps in care that can arise from the inability to share information across institutions and/or
geographic boundaries. These systems provide access to longitudinal and comprehensive health records
of clients, along with documentation and other clinical tools to support care provision by individual
healthcare providers and teams.

Goals and Objectives:

Background (Rationale)

Community Health Nursing combines primary health care and nursing practice in a community
setting. CHN and FHSIS documentation is imperative in determining factors and provides
information relevant in providing care to the community setting such as potential health risks and
health status of the community, the health care intervention provided, problems and addressed
solutions that are required for health care. With the aid of advancement in technology, the project
Electronic Documentation or the E-DocMunity aims to help nurses deal with documentation of data
in an advanced setting through the use of computer and mobile technology, it helps the data which
are the household surveys and familiy health information system to be processed in a graph or
tallied which will collate informations needed and the questions for the survey is already indicated
and the user will just type the responses of the respondents. The purpose of the project is to make
the forms accessible on our mobile devices such as tablets or phone especially when going to the
community thus, it aids in saving time and secure relevant informations to avoid data loss.

RRL
With the advent of time and technology, health care is now being delivered in a more dynamic,
complex but easier and faster way. Due to the ever changing environments, continuously changing
medical treatments, changing regulations and protocols, growing population and increasing demands
of an efficient healthcare system, it is imperative that clinical information is made readily available
for easier access. With these presenting factors, computer systems are being devised to collect, store,
retrieve, analyze and communicate health status and health care information. It can aid in collecting,
storing, retrieving and analyzing patient care data when the systems are based on concepts from
informatics. Appropriately designed and deployed computerized systems of information can
transform patient care data into clinically relevant and useful information and knowledge.
Health sector is one of the largest consumer oriented fields which can device substantial benefits
from the computerization. Last few years have been continually witnessing an increasing number of
health professionals and set ups using electronic and information technology to improvise the
delivery of healthcare at different levels such as primary care, ambulatory care and tertiary level care.
With the tremendous advances in medical science the challenge for nursing continues to be the
integration of many specialized resources in the care of patients. Nursing decisions are often limited
by access to necessary information available from these specialized sources; thus ease of access in a
timely manner to all pertinent patient information is necessity.
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Information is highly imperative to actualize knowledge-based decision-making at all levels of health
care. Indeed, valid and reliable information is fundamental precondition for a more effective,
efficient and equitable health care system.
The use of ICT for health or e-health is recognized as one of the key enabling strategic instruments
supporting and facilitating the achievement of the national health system goals. As early as 1987, the
DOH had operationalized this strategy by establishing an office responsible for ICT and management
information system (MIS) headed by a director-level officer. The current KMITS of the DOH leads
ICT/MIS activities.
The Integrated Hospital Operations and Management Information System (iHOMIS) is one of the
tools implementing the integrated hospital operations and management strategy of the DOH. As of 31
March 2016, the iHOMIS was used in 91 DOH and LGU hospitals. The iHOMIS functions as an
electronic medical record, hospital information system and health information system. It captures
patients’ medical histories and encounters. It records patients’ vital signs, diagnoses, laboratory
results, medications and hospital bills, among others. It generates information 140 for decision
support and reports on diseases. The iHOMIS is used as PhilHealth’s electronic system for
membership verification, claims processing and status verification.
The Integrated Clinic Information System (iClinicSys) is used at the primary level in health centres.
For the two-year period 2013–2015, the users of iClinicSys increased by an average annual rate of
34% with 376 users registered by the end of 2015. The iClinicSys has a patient consultation module
that captures vital signs and doctor’s orders and an e-prescription module that prepares prescriptions
for patients. It later links post-prescription inventories with the National Online Stock Inventory
Reporting System (NOSIRS). A health programme module records the health service provided by
name of the programme, e.g. malaria. Specific functionalities of the iClinicSys include scheduling
patients, tracking vaccinations and verifying recipients of the 4Ps and PhilHealth programmes.
The Electronic Field Health Service Information System (eFHSIS) provides the basic service data
needed to monitor the activities of various public health programmes. The early version of FHSIS
was developed in the late 1980s. Specifically, it provides summary data on health service delivery
and selected programme indicators at the barangay, municipality/city, district, provincial, regional
and national levels. It consists of (i) web based online reporting for programmes such as MCH, TB,
malaria; (ii) batch offline client-based reporting system; (iii) a web-based data uploading system; and
(iv) a report generation system that consolidates data and produces reports, including charts and
graphs.
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