What is the use of collecting data with computers if these will not have an impact on individual, community or population health? Thankfully, information from CHITS can be used for decision making. Before CHITS, we could only say motherhood statements about information for decision making. Now we can actually demonstrate it. Here are examples of how data can be used to improve health.
1) Tracking individual data over time. This is an important feature at the RHU level because it provides them with a longitudinal perspective of the care received by a patient in their facility. It also helps them relate this with the other members of the family, and to the barangay. This is most helpful especially in cases of outbreaks.
2) Impact to community health is best manifested if there are outbreaks. If a patient comes in with suspected cholera, a quick scan of CHITS will show if there have been previous consultations or which barangay health workers (BHWs) to warn.
3) For population health, CHITS can aggregate data to any format that will be required by DOH and PhilHealth and send it off securely for epidemiology analysis. This is important for national level decision making.