An Ateneo Graduate School of Business Advantage
Dr. Kongkiat Ketpech is a medical doctor, who had the personal mission of improving health care in Thailand. In Thailand, you need to pay only 30 baht for any disease to be treated. But you have to pay a an annual capitation (premium) of l,200 baht. It is challenge to do this. So they studied how rural hospitals and the only 3 solutions were IT, IT, IT.
l. IT project. The idea is to get information on the hospital: patients, number of days stay, expenses, medication etc. Employing the best IT graduates, and using Linux, open source software, they were able to get dashboard picture on a daily basis of hospital operation within the network. They found out that the l,200 baht capitation was exceeded. The actual cost was 2,400. The budget was being eaten by chronic/lifestyle disease, not by infectious diseases. The prevalent diseases were hypertension, obesity, diabetes, and malnutrition
2. So he embarked as an Ashoka fellow this time, on a nutrition project. They promoted organic food, and food low on glycemic index like brown rice. This benefitted the farmers who were encouraged to raise organic food and or brown rice.
There is none like this in PHL. He can be contacted at kongkiat@ipensook.com
I understand his software is being used in the Phil and maybe is being used by DOH, Philhealth to lower hospital costs and improve delivery of services
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