Jenny Bituin

I remember celebgate, I was in college at the time. It’s a good thing that the people responsible were jailed.

Facebook is the most popular social media platform in the Philippines, with an estimated 90 million users in 2025. However, a lot of users lack awareness on data privacy and security. Attackers can use their ignorance to stealing information.

For example, I have seen many “content creators” or “social media influencers” do raffle on their Faceboo…[Read more]

I agree. PaaS provides more flexibility than SaaS because it allows you to build an application customized to the hospital’s needs.

Since I would like to develop a web-based application for patient appointments but there is only one IT officer working in the hospital, I would propose to the executive board the use of a cloud server for the project, particularly the PaaS service model for the following reasons:

1. In the PaaS cloud service model, the user has control over the…[Read more]

Thank you for your input. It is my first time learning about Master Patient Index, and having a nationwide MPI seems to be useful in improving public health.

According to WHO, the Philippines has one of the highest tuberculosis incidence rates in Southeast Asia and the fourth largest TB burden in the world. One of the ways the Department of Health use health informatics to strengthen outbreak detection, response, and control of tuberculosis is through the Integrated Tuberculosis Information System…[Read more]

I admire you, Wah Wah. You have such an extensive background in public health, data management, and statistics.

I have been working in the public health field for around 8 years, first as a public health associate then as a public health nutritionist. The skills that I must improve on to become a professional in public health are the following:

Vision and System Planning

As a public health nutritionist, my focus at work is more on nutrition and dietetics.…

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I agree. Integrating AI with cloud computing helps in improving patient outcomes, enhancing efficiency and productivity, and cost optimization.

Given the clinical and business benefits of cloud computing, yes I will consider moving the hospital’s information system to cloud computing if I am a director or an executive of the hospital; that is if the hospital can afford its cost. The total cost from the different financial areas – architecture, total cost of acquisition, total cost of dat…[Read more]

That was a scary experience, considering that the scammer/s know personal details about you, such as your research paper. You might like to check out haveibeenpwned.com to see if your email address has been compromised in a data breach. The ICT support team from my previous university recommends this website to check whether our accounts are in…[Read more]

My office computer and flash drive were attacked by a shortcut virus last year after inserting my flash drive to my officemate’s computer. I was not aware that her computer has been infected with the shortcut virus and because of this, the files stored in my flash drive were hidden and I was not able to access any of them. Fortunately, my own o…[Read more]

Since the target of the app are those with chronic or lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, I think a good feature to add will be one that would allow patients to record their daily food intake. In this way, doctors will be able to check the diet of their patients and can make recommendations based on the patients’ food i…[Read more]

Nice to know you too, Wah Wah!

A recent event that made the headlines here in the Philippines is the public shaming (via a Facebook post) done by a popular TV host to a physician, over his professional fee for treating a patient who had an infected leg wound. The said TV host since been called out by many healthcare workers and medical associations, who called his Facebook…[Read more]

Glad to meet you too, Juno!

Hello everyone. I am Jenny Bituin from the Philippines. You can call me Jenny or Jen. My background is in Nutrition and Dietetics, and a little bit of background in Computer Science. Since 2018, I have been working as a nutrition officer here in my hometown in the Philippines. As a nutrition officer, I handle nutrition programs, provide nutrition…[Read more]

Thank you for your input. As someone working in a smaller setting, it is nice to know about the some of the problems encountered in health information system on a larger scale and your suggestions on how to improve them.

I currently work as a Nutrition Officer at the local (municipal) health office, also called the Rural Health Unit here in my hometown in the Philippines. Here are the problems in our office’s health information system that I observed and as interviewed from people using/managing our system.

HARDWARE
There is a lack of computers and printers s…[Read more]