Health Information Systems

Last February 16, our class attended a seminar in Asian Institute of Makati. It is about Health Information Systems. The speakers were Dr. Alberto Romualdez and Dr. Alvin B. Marcelo. The seminar focused on how technology can improve the health industry.

The first speaker is Dr. Alberto Romualdez. He was the former secretary of the Department of Health and was a dean in the University of the Philippines. He mainly talked about the health problems in the Philippines. He stated that poor performance of primary, secondary, and tertiary health care services also brought an impact on the health problems.

Dr. Alvin B. Marcelo was called next to talk. He is the Chief Information Technology Executive of PHILHEALTH. He talked about the history of Health Informaton Systems and how Health Informations is important to the health system. He added that it is essential to have standard-based information architecture.

The last thing we did after the seminar is eat. The food was great and satisfying. I would really love if companies serve food after the seminars.

In conclusion, I learned a lot from this seminar.The speakers delivered very well and explained clearly the main topic of the talk.