The Journey to the Philippine
Health Information Exchange
Alvin Marcelo
Team leader, National eHealth PMO
WHO-ITU National eHealth Strategy Toolkit
Development Framework
Leadership and Governance
WHO-ITU Toolkit Recommendation
Leadership and Governance - DOH-DOST
National eHealth Steering Committee
Sec Ona (DOH)
Sec Montejo (DOST)
PCEO Padilla (PhilHealth)
USec Herbosa (DOH)
USec Casambre (DOST)
SVP Celerino Cabrera (PhilHealth)
Exec. Director Montoya (DOST)
Chairperson Licuanan (CHED)
Chancellor Agulto (UPM)
Health Data Standards
Experts Group
Health Data Security and
Privacy Experts Group
eHealth Stakeholders
Advisory Board
TWG
Dir Valdez DOH
Dir Villorente DOST-ASTI
Dir Opena DOST-PCHRD
Ms Aragona DOH
Ms Tan DOH
Mr Crisostomo PHIC
Mr Bernolia PHIC
Dr Alcantara PHIC
Ms Esther Go, private sector
Dr Fernandez-Marcelo, UPM
Leadership and Governance – DOH
Office of the Secretary
(Dr Ona)
Office of the DOH CIO
(Dr Herbosa)
Knowledge Management and Information
Technology Services
(Dir Valdez)
Consultants:
Dr Marcelo
Mr Abando
Strategy/Investment and
Legislation, Policy and Compliance
MITHI
and
GAA
MITHI
and
NGAs
Strategy/Investment and
Legislation, Policy and Compliance - DOH-DOST
DOH will adopt an
internationally-accepted
IT Governance
Framework.
Capacity-building for the Workforce
The IT Governance Framework clarifies the
capacity-building roadmap for eHealth
governance and management.
DOH will adopt
internationally accepted
certification programs for
capacity-building in
eHealth.
Infrastructure
on DOST’s iGovPhil
Standards and Interoperability
PHIE
Standards and Interoperability - DOH-DOST
DOH and DOST
(with support
from MITHI) will
build the
Philippine Health
Information
Exchange.
Services and Applications
Focused on applications that avail of the
PHIE services
Services and Applications DOH-DOST
Philippine Health Information Exchange
Standards
Client
registry
Provider
registry
Facility
registry
Interoperability Layer
Platform/mediator
Metadata Standards and Terminology Services
Point-ofservice
Electronic
Medical
Records for
RHUs
Hospital
Information
Systems
RxBOX
NCD
Registries
National
Health Data
Warehouse
* these are only the MITHI funded projects. There are
other projects that are ongoing at DOH.
Next Steps
● Activation of the PMO
● Formalization of the governance of the PHIE and its
components
● Prioritization of the PHIE prototype and initial services
● Connection of existing points-of-service to the PHIE
● Delivery of data to the eHealth dashboard