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National Health Card achieved
Promises
Never
Materialise
PM opens health centre
Published on Apr 17, 2010, 12:01 am AST
Updated on Jan 29, 2011, 8:54 pm AST
new facility: Prime Minister Patrick Manning, right, shares a joke with staff members at the Siparia District Health Facility yesterday, after it was officially opened. —Photo: KRISHNA MAHARAJ
MOMENTS before Prime Minister Patrick Manning instructed his office to release May 24 as the date for the 2010 general election he was declaring open the Siparia District Health Facility.
The facility is located in the constituency of United National Congress (UNC) Political Leader, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who did not attend the function.
Asked about the election date at around 11.15 a.m., Manning said, "Listen to your radios very closely today."
One hour and forty-five minutes later, the date was announced.
As he was about to deliver the feature address, Manning greeted Fyzabad Member of Parliament, Chandresh Sharma, who he described as "my special friend" and "Member of Parliament emeritus for Fyzabad". The title "emeritus" is usually given to a full professor, bishop or other professional who retires in good standing.
"I would like to ascribe him to a political party but I am not sure whether it is UNC or COP. UNC? Which faction?" Manning asked.
Manning said the new $35 million facility will serve an area of 28,000 people and is outfitted with an emergency department which will be open 24 hours to accommodate minor injuries, and to stabilise patients with major injuries prior to transport to the San Fernando General Hospital via ambulance.
"The facility is fully wired for computerisation and through the use of integrated computer servers, X-Ray pictures can be exported to any other facility via the Internet," Manning said.
The facility will also be used as the pilot for introducing the e-Health Card, which is designed to facilitate speedier patient registration, the electronic recording of every patient's visit, recording of vital statistics and information relating to past visits.
Manning was the first to receive his own e-Health Card.
As he emerged from a tour of the premises, eager pupils of the St Christopher's Anglican Primary School, located opposite, waved and shouted out to Manning, who evoked loud cheers as he waved back to them.
Manning decided to pay an impromptu visit to the school and there was pandemonium when the pupils saw him cross the street.
Some tripped and fell but got up and continued running towards the Prime Minister in a bid to have their own personal encounter with him.
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/PM_ ... 75169.html
Habit7 wrote:UML wrote:
National Health Card achieved
Promises
Never
MaterialisePM opens health centre
Published on Apr 17, 2010, 12:01 am AST
Updated on Jan 29, 2011, 8:54 pm AST
new facility: Prime Minister Patrick Manning, right, shares a joke with staff members at the Siparia District Health Facility yesterday, after it was officially opened. —Photo: KRISHNA MAHARAJ
MOMENTS before Prime Minister Patrick Manning instructed his office to release May 24 as the date for the 2010 general election he was declaring open the Siparia District Health Facility.
The facility is located in the constituency of United National Congress (UNC) Political Leader, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who did not attend the function.
Asked about the election date at around 11.15 a.m., Manning said, "Listen to your radios very closely today."
One hour and forty-five minutes later, the date was announced.
As he was about to deliver the feature address, Manning greeted Fyzabad Member of Parliament, Chandresh Sharma, who he described as "my special friend" and "Member of Parliament emeritus for Fyzabad". The title "emeritus" is usually given to a full professor, bishop or other professional who retires in good standing.
"I would like to ascribe him to a political party but I am not sure whether it is UNC or COP. UNC? Which faction?" Manning asked.
Manning said the new $35 million facility will serve an area of 28,000 people and is outfitted with an emergency department which will be open 24 hours to accommodate minor injuries, and to stabilise patients with major injuries prior to transport to the San Fernando General Hospital via ambulance.
"The facility is fully wired for computerisation and through the use of integrated computer servers, X-Ray pictures can be exported to any other facility via the Internet," Manning said.
The facility will also be used as the pilot for introducing the e-Health Card, which is designed to facilitate speedier patient registration, the electronic recording of every patient's visit, recording of vital statistics and information relating to past visits.
Manning was the first to receive his own e-Health Card.
As he emerged from a tour of the premises, eager pupils of the St Christopher's Anglican Primary School, located opposite, waved and shouted out to Manning, who evoked loud cheers as he waved back to them.
Manning decided to pay an impromptu visit to the school and there was pandemonium when the pupils saw him cross the street.
Some tripped and fell but got up and continued running towards the Prime Minister in a bid to have their own personal encounter with him.
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/PM_ ... 75169.html
Health card initiative was started since a couple weeks before last general elections. PP sat on it for 3 years, touted that they bringing it in a few months in 2013 http://www.ctntworld.com/cnews2/index.p ... Itemid=707, now at the end of their administration, we no further than when Manning introduced it in 2010.
PNM will return 5 years later to complete what they started.
She also made it clear that the introduction of the National Health Cards means that a person can visit any doctor's office and the State will pick up the bill.
"Through this Phase One of the health card system, when you go to see the doctor, you could keep your money to buy food for your children because you will not have to pay money to the doctor."
The first phase of the Smart Health Card System will be rolled out to patients suffering from chronic diseases under the Chronic Disease Assessment Programme (CDAP), which already provides assistance to approximately 60,000 persons.
The Prime Minister said the programme will begin in pharmacies and extend to medical labs and doctors' offices.
"This will be an electronic card and it will be scanned and once that card is scanned in, all your health conditions, your medication needs, your refill cycles, your current treatment, will become immediately available to whichever doctor you are sitting in front of. They talk, we deliver."
E-Health Vision
In Trinidad and Tobago the emergence of E-health will mark a new paradigm in health care delivery, as it will profoundly change both the citizen’s experience with the health sector and the health provider’s service to the population.
The vision outcome for the E-Health card is to provide to citizens access to their records from anywhere in the country (and eventually in the world), anytime. This vision outcome is appropriately described as “One patient, one record, anywhere, anytime”.
The e-Health Initiative will accelerate the adoption and use of Health Information Technology to:
improve healthcare quality
increase patient safety
reduce healthcare costs; and
enable individuals and communities to make the best possible health decisions.
On the user end, the change will be radical, as we will transition from an outdated manual system of admitting patients and keeping records to a fully automated, computerized environment. This is expected to create a cultural change both within the health care system and outside of it. This will constitute a revolution in health care service delivery.
An essential element of the transition to this system is a solid and reliable information infrastructure. This infrastructure is the National Health Network (NHN), which encompasses:
Nation-wide networks and computers
Healthcare facility connectivity, and
Support services.
All sites within the health care system will be able to access the same information via the NHN.
As you can see in this connectivity diagram, the IT application used for the E-Health card will be a web-based software and database server that can be accessed by all Ministry of Health stakeholders via the Internet and the Government’s central connectivity backbone network. Further, all Hospitals, Healthcare and Diagnostic Centers, Pharmacies, GPs, as well as all participating agencies will be integrated within that central network (private sector).
Current E-Health Projects
I took note of a newspaper article, admonishing the Ministry of Health for e health deficiencies in clinical management via the internet; electronic health records and internet access. I thank the author for giving me the opportunity to share with you our current e-health progress.
Following a clearly defined strategic plan, We have implemented a surveillance system, which tracks data in all HIV treatment centres. It features:
--a Central Lab Information System
--a Clinical Management System, which includes electronic health records
-- a Business Intelligence package
--data export systems, with a central patient’s database, all sites linked through a data-communications hub. This system is also linked to the Blood Bank and we are extending these functionalities to all facilities providing care for patients with CNCDs and across the entire health sector.
The CMS features comprehensive health records, clinical management and a central data base that is being rolled out nationally as we speak. Our complete e-health initiative will be completed by 2012. Additionally permit me to inform you that our 70 million dollar Illuminat contract for the provision of all hardware requirements commenced in April, 2009 and is on track for a 2010 completion. Training and change management processes continue a pace. All infrastructural and other requirements are also on track.
For patients with CNCD’s, we also possess an online system which facilitates the easy delivery of pharmaceuticals, which citizens receive at no cost. Using an electronic card, the patients’ drugs dispensing is monitored and the pharmacy’s stocks are centrally controlled and replenished.
Additionally, a Chronic Disease Electronic Management System is being implemented in some RHAs, which will be rolled out shortly on a national level.
http://www.news.gov.tt/archive/index.php?news=2567
Habit7 wrote:Yawn...welcome to 2009E-Health Vision
In Trinidad and Tobago the emergence of E-health will mark a new paradigm in health care delivery, as it will profoundly change both the citizen’s experience with the health sector and the health provider’s service to the population.
The vision outcome for the E-Health card is to provide to citizens access to their records from anywhere in the country (and eventually in the world), anytime. This vision outcome is appropriately described as “One patient, one record, anywhere, anytime”.
The e-Health Initiative will accelerate the adoption and use of Health Information Technology to:
improve healthcare quality
increase patient safety
reduce healthcare costs; and
enable individuals and communities to make the best possible health decisions.
On the user end, the change will be radical, as we will transition from an outdated manual system of admitting patients and keeping records to a fully automated, computerized environment. This is expected to create a cultural change both within the health care system and outside of it. This will constitute a revolution in health care service delivery.
An essential element of the transition to this system is a solid and reliable information infrastructure. This infrastructure is the National Health Network (NHN), which encompasses:
Nation-wide networks and computers
Healthcare facility connectivity, and
Support services.
All sites within the health care system will be able to access the same information via the NHN.
As you can see in this connectivity diagram, the IT application used for the E-Health card will be a web-based software and database server that can be accessed by all Ministry of Health stakeholders via the Internet and the Government’s central connectivity backbone network. Further, all Hospitals, Healthcare and Diagnostic Centers, Pharmacies, GPs, as well as all participating agencies will be integrated within that central network (private sector).
Current E-Health Projects
I took note of a newspaper article, admonishing the Ministry of Health for e health deficiencies in clinical management via the internet; electronic health records and internet access. I thank the author for giving me the opportunity to share with you our current e-health progress.
Following a clearly defined strategic plan, We have implemented a surveillance system, which tracks data in all HIV treatment centres. It features:
--a Central Lab Information System
--a Clinical Management System, which includes electronic health records
-- a Business Intelligence package
--data export systems, with a central patient’s database, all sites linked through a data-communications hub. This system is also linked to the Blood Bank and we are extending these functionalities to all facilities providing care for patients with CNCDs and across the entire health sector.
The CMS features comprehensive health records, clinical management and a central data base that is being rolled out nationally as we speak. Our complete e-health initiative will be completed by 2012. Additionally permit me to inform you that our 70 million dollar Illuminat contract for the provision of all hardware requirements commenced in April, 2009 and is on track for a 2010 completion. Training and change management processes continue a pace. All infrastructural and other requirements are also on track.
For patients with CNCD’s, we also possess an online system which facilitates the easy delivery of pharmaceuticals, which citizens receive at no cost. Using an electronic card, the patients’ drugs dispensing is monitored and the pharmacy’s stocks are centrally controlled and replenished.
Additionally, a Chronic Disease Electronic Management System is being implemented in some RHAs, which will be rolled out shortly on a national level.
http://www.news.gov.tt/archive/index.php?news=2567
Habit7 wrote:
Contractor FTW
Achieving what? Even after inheriting it for 3 years, it's 2 years late by PP's own promises. We no better than when Manning did the same thing before elections.UML wrote:
Thank god for the PPG for ACHIEVING this.
zoom rader wrote:^^^ Rory go say that sub standard and they use the wrong sand to concrete ratio.
Habit7 wrote:
Contractor FTW
pete wrote:You have to meet certain criteria to be approved for WASA's approved contractor list. Part of that would be proof either of completing similar tasks before or having the required resources available to complete the tasks for them. But.. it is Trinidad so who knows. If it starts leaking hopefully they have to repair and hopefully it doesn't have an effect on anything else.
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