Jenny Bituin

Yes, there is a big difference in the access and quality of care between rural and urban setting. In the Philippines, one way to close this gap is through mobile health clinics. A mobile health clinic is a customized vehicle—often a van or bus—equipped with medical supplies and staffed by healthcare professionals. They allow healthcare pro…[Read more]

In the Philippines, Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) are hailed as modern-day heroes because of their contribution to the Philippine economy through their remittances, and because of their resilience and sacrifices to work abroad in order to support their family at home. However, outward migration of health workers, especially nurses, has been a…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing! It is nice to know about the advantages and disadvantages of using EMR on conflict-affected EHOs.

In our healthcare facility, I think the things that we need the most for a smooth EMR system are hardware and human resource/manpower. We have not encountered any major problems with our EMR software which is a good thing, but we need more hardware and people that will be used/utilized exclusively for the EMR system.

Our healthcare facility uses Wireless Access for Health (WAH) as our EMR. Here are the advantages and disadvantages of using EMR over paper-based medical records based on my observations.

Good
1. Enables centralized management of patient records, all relevant patient information can be stored/found in the EMR
2. Patient records can be accessed…[Read more]

Here are my suggestions on coping with big health data challenges
1. Missing data
Some methods to deal with missing data are the following:
a) complete-case analysis (CCA)
– all persons with missing values on one or more variables are excluded from the analysis. This method has a lot of drawbacks and should be avoided in general because it…[Read more]

Here is my view on the four recommended points that public health professionals can do to fight corruption.
1. Convene key stakeholders in the health system
I agree with the authors that this is such a formidable task, similar to what is happening in the Philippines today, in relation to the investigations on the alleged corruption of flood…[Read more]

I would like to share about PhilHealth Check Utility (PCU) Liveness Check, a health system improvement introduced last October 2025 by PhilHealth, the government corporation tasked to administer the National Health Insurance Program of the Philippines. PCU is an online tool accessible via the PhilHealth Member Portal that allows individuals to…[Read more]

page 340, item 1. (Common misinterpretations of single P values)
P values are sometimes misinterpreted as the probability of the test hypothesis being true. For example, a P value equal to 0.40 does not mean that the null hypothesis has a 40% chance of being true. It simply indicates how close the data is to where the statistical model predicted…[Read more]

Hello everyone! I am Jenny Bituin, a nutritionist-dietitian from the Philippines. I currently works as a local nutrition action officer in our town, responsible for managing nutrition programs, supervising volunteer nutrition workers, and providing nutrition and other related services. A part of my work that is related to statistics is collecting…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing the procedures and technology for the disaster recovery plan of your INGO.

Thank you for sharing! I agree, maintaining a paper-based system is also important in disaster recovery.

Our organization is a Rural Health Unit (RHU), a local government-owned health facility that provides basic and comprehensive health services to our municipality. For our organization’s disaster recovery plan, the procedures that should be included are the following:
1. Creation of the Disaster Recovery Committee/Team
2. Identification and A…[Read more]

Thank you, Nang Phyoe!

Thank you, Hteik Htar!

One of the health challenges the Philippines is facing today in terms of health informatics systems is corruption and mismanagement of allocated funds. For example, here are some issues with the information system of PhilHealth, the government corporation tasked to administer the National Health Insurance Program of the Philippines:

1. In 2020,…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing a comprehensive list of benefits of implementing High Availability technology.

Thank you for sharing! High availability of the system is indeed very critical during emergencies.

A hospital information system (HIS) that implements High Availability will have the following benefits:
Hospital
1. Continuity of service – the HIS will be able to recover quickly from failures, and the hospital can continue serving patients without a noticeable outage
2. Secured data – the hospital’s most important data will always be ava…[Read more]

The change that I wished to do in my organization was to request for the transfer of the Nutrition Unit from the Social Welfare and Development Office to the Health Office. In our municipality, the Nutrition Unit has been under the Social Welfare and Development Office for a long time. I wanted to transfer to the Health Office because they…[Read more]