Indonesia’s Health Ministry late last month launched the Philippines Health Services platform in Jakarta as a realisation of the country’s health technology transformation pillar.
The platform which was named SATUSEHAT – translated as ONEHEALTHY – seeks to support the implementation of other Indonesian health systems’ transformation pillars: primary services transformation, referral services change, health resilience systems modification, health financing systems alteration and change for better of human resources in the health sector.
This comes as the ministry targets around 8, 000 health facilities in the particular country to be integrated with the platform by the end of this year.
WHAT IT DOES
The platform launch took place as Southeast Asia’s largest population associated with more than 270 million carries on with its electronic transformation journey.
“In the digital wellness transformation, there are three programmes that we will do. Firstly, integrating data; secondly, simplifying apps; thirdly, building an innovation ecosystem, ” said Indonesia’s Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin, as quoted in a Health Ministry statement issued on July 26.
Meanwhile, the particular Health Ministry adopted the PaaS infrastructure model inside developing the platform, which connects the entire health industry ecosystem to create single national health data. The particular press declaration said it would ensure more effective and efficient national wellness data exchanges.
Sadikin stated the solitary data program “will integrate health information and standardise formats and data exchange protocols”.
WHY THIS MATTERS
The same statement mentioned IHS would serve as a connector between apps in various health industries, therefore all wellness facilities – from pharmacies and clinics to laboratories and hospitals – would need to follow the particular standards set by the Wellness Ministry in the SATUSEHAT platform.
Patients would not need to bring physical medical records if moving in order to another hospital, as those would be recorded digitally on the platform and integrated using the official COVID-19 tracking app PeduliLindungi. The Health Ministry aims to develop PeduliLindungi as the citizens health app, not really just like a pandemic-related system. Such electronic records can be accessed on one’s smartphone anytime.
Health workers might also be able to input the data in order to SATUSEHAT just once, which will be automatically connected to other wellness apps.
ON THE RECORD
Dozens of the country’s health facilities have undergone and are going through various trial stages of SATUSEHAT.
“This platform has been tested upon 41 government-owned vertical private hospitals in the particular alpha testing phase plus a beta phase trial is underway, which involves 31 institutions from different backgrounds, ” said Setiaji, chief associated with the Digital Transformation Office under the Health Ministry.
