DOST Region 8 RxBox 1000 Project

LOOK, RHU and LGU personnel attended the DOST Region VIII RxBox 1000 Project Face – to – Face Super’s User’s Training and Deployment on July 19-20, 2022 at Pacific Point Events, Places and Resort, Tacloban City.

The training focuses on proper device usage and troubleshooting. The participants also conducted a hands-on demonstration on their respective RxBox to test and familiarize its functionality.

What is RxBox?

RxBox is a multi-component program (biomedical device, electronic medical record system and telemedicine training) designed to provide better access to life-saving health care services in isolated and disadvantaged communities nationwide. It is one among the Department of Science and Technology’s efforts for a “Smarter Philippines”. It is also an ICT (Information and Communications Technology) innovation designed to support the Department of Health’s call for Kalusugang Pangakalahatan or Universal Health Care.

What could RxBox can do for us?

The RxBox is a telemedicine device capable of capturing medical signals through built-in medical sensors, storing data in an electronic medical record (Community Health Information Tracking System –CHITS), and transmitting health information via internet to a clinical specialist in the Philippine General Hospital for expert’s advice.

It also catalyzes improvement in the local referral system by facilitating teleconsultations (audio-video conferences) within the National Telehealth Service Program.

The RxBox can reduce the overall cost of healthcare by enabling health workers to diagnose, monitor and treat patients within the rural health facility, thanks to medical sensors inside the box!

The LGU-Sta. Rita is very thankful to the DOST and DOH Region VIII for being one of the recipients of the RxBox.

(Photos by: LGU Media and https://rxbox.chits.ph/)