In the hopes of making headway in the use of Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) in the Philippine healthcare market, the Philippine
Healthcare Insurance Corporation or PhilHealth launched October last year the
first phase of its e-claims project dubbed the "Claims Eligibility Web
Service" or CEWS. According to PhilHealth, the CEWS will allow a hospital (or
any accredited healthcare provider) to validate a patient's member
registration and contributions with PhilHealth immediately, thereby "reducing
turnaround time in eligibility verification as well as reducing the number of
return-to-hospital (RTH) claims".
There are 70 or thereabouts private and government hospitals signed up as
part of the pilot. Some of the hospitals that have completed the pilot run
and currently utilizing the said web service include St. Luke's Medical
Center, The Medical City, Ca... (more)
E-health initiatives are now found in 68% of the ICST policies in the Asia
and Pacific region, as stated by the United Nations Economics and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Information Communication and Space
Technology (UNESCAP-ICST).
In the Philippines, local hospitals and clinics see IT systems as both a
challenge and an opportunity. By improving the quality of healthcare and
medical information accuracy, these systems allow the country’s healthcare
providers to meet the increasing demands not only of the local market but
also the international market.
Value for IT... (more)
The World Is Flat author Thomas Friedman said that "the most disruptive force
of all" is that of the increased ability for people anywhere in the world to
collaborate. In his book, he re-told the story of how Behlendorf had founded
the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), a big self-organizing community of
software developers.
Apparently Behlendorf wasn't the only one working on the project he was
working with so he started to collaborate with the other programmers to --
simply put it -- get things done faster. This collaboration eventually gave
birth to ASF.
ASF's focus is on open ... (more)
I spoke to Mike Lim, VP for Engineering at Exist, who by the way is currently
enrolled at the prestigious Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA program, about this
and here's my non-verbatim summary of our short exchange:
Give people the opportunity to lead, even with small projects. Assign him/her
a role, instead of giving tasks. This will give the person room to be
creative and innovative. This'll give him/her a chance to demonstrate what
he/she can be capable of.
It's not having the title of a "manager". One can be a mentor to another,
give inputs and share his/her experience to a peer,... (more)
Open Source Today
Open source has been an agent of innovation for the past years. More than 10
years ago, standards were dictated by the bigger technology companies.
However, the past decade has reflected a transformation that distinguishes
open source as the de facto choice for majority of global organizations. Open
source today sets the trends.
Why Should I Consider It?
Open source, characterized by collaboration, communities of developers, and
access to source code in relation to software development, and the business
models built around it, continue to reshape the IT ecosystem... (more)
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