This is good news for the medical transcription industry! Electronic health care records can be processed by Filipino MTs (medical transcriptionists).

I chance upon this file and got interested with it hoping it could help me boost the efficiency of my small outpatient charity project outfit.I wish to be provided the mechanics on how I can access the help/advise/opinion of our colleagues through this system on problematic cases if the set up is now functional or operational.

I am a practicing EENT specialist based in Cagayan de Oro City and have turned (upon reaching my senior year at 60) all my DISCIPLINED private patients to the Charity EENT Outpatient Service that I simultaneously created along while still in active practice.

Unfunded and working solo as a hobby I have converted the limited EENT scope to all forms of medical problems except OB & Pediatrics now thru my WW II VETERANS AND SENIOR CITIZEN OUTPATIENT CHARITY SERVICE.

I have signified my intention to open the same kind of medical service to the Roxas Emergency Hospital,Roxas, Isabela provided this will be met with equal devotion and transparency and devoid of politics.Hoping I could stimulate our colleagues there along this line of thinking.

I have initiated two years ago a medical mission in Cambodia through the invitation of a missionary religious group based there upon the recommendation of one of my patients in my Charity. Still working on the progressive and sustained program at which Chulalongkorn University(Thailand) hopefully may accept to back me up through Net interactive consultation for difficult cases relative to what adjuvant medical facility available in the area as I was flooded with a lot of liver cirrhosis at the time. With the rift ongoing now on these two countries on their borders I feel pessimistic this will materialize.

There are big problems in this kind of service specially on funding much more that our credibility as a nation has been just recently stamped as corrupt thus limiting our access to any form of assistance intended for Asia under Obama.Much more from overseas Charity organizations.

I hope our colleagues with realize the value and wisdom initiated by the UP group in an attempt to deliver the Art of the profession in a global manner.

With my best appreciation to bold initiative and more power.

Respectfully,

Luis B. Tamayo jr. md

Relative to my previous letter above may i please be provided with email contact addresses to whoever may be able to help me along this concern in case the Roxas Emergency Hospital, Roxas Isabela is receptive to this novel idea in the enhancement of our medical services. Likewise, guide me on what agencies of our government to approach.Hopefully, this might redirect my small fragment of service to our country that I have long scorned because of too much politics in every department, corruption and wanton neglect to the basic services.

I had a chance to work as a medical observer at the Quirino Memorial Hospital, Quezon City in 1969 from my stint as a missionary doctor in Sagada(Mountain Province) and I was immersed into an unspeakable and rotten problem of funding support as promised by Quezon City to the said Hospital I had to solicit the help of Dr. Balbin the then Region II head to help facilitate and update funds for the hospital to function efficiently. Trickles came by but then I was siphoned back to my alma mater for specialty training.

If the government still is so inept and divert Health funds somewhere do we have the credibility as an organization PMA) to approach the NGO and other charitable organizations?

Thank you very much for any immediate and kind attention to which this writer is much indebted.

Very respectfully,

Luis B. Tamayo jr.

Telehealth and telemedicine is apt for an archipelagic country like the Philippines. Probably another efficient way of maximizing the dwindling (or lack of) physicians in the rural areas

To the Editor/moderator/concerned office:
May I please be provided the e-mail addresses of Drs. Kenneth Hartigan-Go. Alvin Marcelo and all the contact laudable head doctors in each of the affiliated satellite project - Batanes, Marikina, Q.C.Pasay Capiz and others. In line of the epidemiological database this form of connectivity still crude as it may is imperative for local experiences sharing and other forms of research in the future perhaps initiated by any medical school/institution under the umbrella and guidelines of whatever office/ agency the whole national project will polarize.

Another medical service depressed are for our good Officers is the Calamines Islands particularly Busuanga.

The government health facility there is definitely in dire need of at least a decent medical service. For serious cases one has to charter a boat ride for two painful hours to reach Cuillon facility
that a cardiac event may usually succumb mid-way.

Again thank you very much.

Very respectfully,

Luis B. Tamayo jr.

erratum:
Another medical service depressed are for our good Officers is the Calamines Islands particularly Busuanga. > should read are>area; Officers to consider is the….

The budget allocation is long overdue, but certainly a welcome development.

I just hope that not a single centavo of the P100M goes to the pocket of a well-positioned doctor or DOH official…

And considering the manner by which this government has consistently shown its impunity in the face of corruption, it looks like, despite this development, indigent Pinoy patients are in for continued suffering and deaths from supposedly curable diseases… I hope I’m wrong…

I’m not likely to comment like this but here it goes, “how can the government go for this telehealth system when it can’t implement the national id system which will likely be the backbone of this telehealth system.”