Doctors and staff have to manually write clinic visit notes and patients don’t own their data
Half of government clinics in the Philippines don’t use electronic records which results to inaccuracies and slow services.
CareGo
Facilitator and prototype builder
November 2019 to May 2020
Makati, PH
We pitched a patient records system
The idea is for clinics in the Philippines to have a simple database where patients and clinics keep an accurate list of vaccinations they or their children have taken.
Makesense chose the team to pursue the idea after the two-day hackathon.
Social media pages educated the public about vaccines especially during the pandemic.
The team won challenges from UNDP and World Health Organization.
I attended a Makesense hackathon and joined a team that sought to identify issues around the low adoption of electronic health records. We wanted to help advance digitization and assist health workers in consistently working with complete data.
We went through exercises to ideate solutions. A minimum viable product was planned to test our ideas and CareGo was born.
The pitch was just the start. We hashed out the details of our idea for the next 6 weeks' coaching program. Makesense shared guides on how to approach the problem, brainstorm some solutions and validate them.
The team zoomed in on immunization records to focus on a use case that could be scaled later on.
CareGo offers convenience to the health center staff. CareGo provides them a way to keep track of the immunization rates and which vaccines are still needed, helping their communities in turn.
The plan is to integrate CareGo in the Department of Health's immunization program workflow even in far-flung areas. CareGo's collated immunization data will be a reliable source for immunization coverage rates in the Philippines.
In a time where disinformation is rampant, the team has engaged people during the pandemic in a public campaign to promote the benefits of vaccines.
After I left, the team still continued to work on the idea and won challenges from the UN Development Programme and World Health Organization.
Mikee Chua, Troyss Pilapil, Sherie Yu, Rafi Delica (Team Members)
