Jenny Bituin

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]