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A health information system integration platform to standardize the
country’s health record system developed by students from the
Ateneo de Manila University won the Philippine finals of
Microsoft’s Imagine Cup on April 20.
Team Nohako Studios, composed of Philip Michael
Cheang, Thomas Dy, Wilhansen Joseph Li, and Rodrick Tan, will
represent the country in the world finals in Cairo, Egypt in July.
Dubbed as Caduceus, the application aimed
to provide health agencies a “standardized information system”
where health information could be stored, transported, and analyzed.
The system has a single repository but can be accessed by different
hospitals.
“Caduceus is not just a repository, it could
also be used to analyze and visualize aggregate data, and provide
statistical summaries if possible,” Cheang told The Manila Times.
“The system can also provide new avenues
like mobile client. For example: you got into an accident, you were
unconscious, the hospital would be able to know your medical records
through your individual record in the system,” Cheang said.
Cheang also added that through this system, the
country can build worldwide collaborations and can develop global
partnerships with international health agencies.
The team from Ateneo, which included Li and Tan,
also bagged last year’s first prize for developing an application
that could help people choose environment-friendly products.
Spearheaded by Microsoft, Imagine Cup challenges
programming students to create company software solutions that could
be utilized to respond to global issues set by the United Nation’s
Millennium Development Goals: poverty and hunger alleviation, gender
equality, education, health and environmental sustainability.
For this year, 3,611 teams from various colleges
and universities registered for the competition, Microsoft Local
Software Economy lead Tim Vergel De Dios revealed.
Other teams that qualified for the software
design local finals are: Team Council of Green from the College of
St. Benilde and Team Xception from the Colegio de San Juan de Letran,
which bagged second and third places respectively; Team Magn.IT.co
also from Colegio de San Juan de Letran; and Team I-Tanim from De La
Salle University.
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