“Innovation is taking place in all parts of the world,” said Jerry Rapes, Exist Global CEO. “We hear about new inventions in Japan to amazing apps in Silicon Valley. We see Tel Aviv rising as a startup hub in the Middle East, and watch tech communities in Germany, Australia, and Singapore build up.”
Posting $1.5 billion in revenues last year (2012), the Philippines’ IT services sector is rapidly gaining recognition as one of the more dynamic go-to IT delivery destinations globally.
I attended two workshops recently (well the latter one was more of a social forum) and learned a great deal of stuff.
At the "Cracking the German Market" seminar, I found out that:
#1 Filipino Technology Innovators
In the hopes of making headway in the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the Philippine healthcare market, the Philippine Healthcare Insurance Corporation or PhilHealth launched October last year the first phase of its e-claims project dubbed the "Claims Eligibility Web Service" or CEWS.
I was fortunate enough to interview Luis Buenaventura, social architect and founding partner of an internet startup called Infinite.ly.
This Friday, there's going to be a roundtable aka chat room hosted by Exist and HP in cooperation with Mediag8way featuring key figures from PhilHealth, metro hospitals, and health maintenance organizations.
This time, the participants will tackle PhilHealth's eClaims project and be given the opportunity to share their views, insights and experiences on the following issues:
Digitizing the paper trail and advocating its adoption;
I had wished for an updated report for 2011, to see how the industry has fared so far, given the ambitious goal 1.5B revenue in 2013. Now, I am again reminded that the industry isn't supposed to move as one big godzilla. Read below and let's discuss.
Despite the global economic crunch in 2008, the local software development industry was able to post a 27.60% growth rate in both export revenue and employment by the end of 2010, as reported by services and investment advisory group Tholons.
What are the drivers affecting buy and build strategies? What elements must be considered if a hospital is to grow and maintain its own applications, purchase an off-the-shelf product, or work with a team (outsource engineering) to build a product? Making the right choice is a challenge.
Let's look at scenarios in the healthcare market and discuss the answers.
IT TEAM SIZE.
With smaller IT teams, the propensity to procure or acquire systems is higher.
Our founders Winston Damarillo, Willex Perez and Junnie Arreza made a blood compact in Bohol two decades ago. They pledged to build a company, which was realized on 10 September 2001. Now it's our 10th year anniversary and we express our utmost gratitude to them.
Today's "IT-Enabling Philippine Hospitals" forum was very energetic. The participants, composed of chief information officers / IT heads of various hospitals in the metro, had a wealth of information and insights that were very valuable -- one single post won't suffice, so I'm going to take a shot on an overarching approach before I drill down on specifics.
What is unique in healthcare that makes it challenging and exciting for IT projects and implementations?
