?taken Alvin Marcelo

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Dr. Alvin B. Marcelo is a general and trauma surgeon by training who is currently director of the UP Standards and Interoperability Lab (SILab). He was formerly chief medical information officer of the St. Luke's Medical Center and executive director of the Asia eHealth Information Network (www.aehin.org). Prior to this, he served as senior vice-president and chief information officer of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth). As the director of the University of the Philippines Manila National Telehealth Center and chief of the Medical Informatics Unit, Dr. Marcelo established the Master of Science in Health Informatics program and conducted local and international research in the field of eHealth and health information systems development. He took his postdoctoral fellowship in medical informatics at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland with research interests in telepathology, mobile computing, and bibliometric analysis of MEDLINE content. Dr Marcelo previously managed the International Open Source Network for ASEAN+3, a centre of excellence in free and/or open source software established by UNDP, and advises the Community Health Information Tracking System (or CHITS) , a Stockholm Challenge finalist in the health category in 2006. He is the Philippine representative to the Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI) and the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). Dr Marcelo is certified in the governance of enterprise IT (CGEIT - www.isaca.org), The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF - www.opengroup.org), and Archimate, and COBIT5 Foundation/Implementation. Dr. Marcelo is inaugural fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics.

"Standards are important for interoperability. But which standard will we use from so many available? This is why we need governance and enterprise architecture. Governance sets priorities and directions while EA provides the methdology to select the standards best fit for your business cases.

Bio: Dr. Alvin Marcelo is a general and trauma surgeon advocating for governance, architecture, program management, standards to achieve interoperability needed for for universal health coverage.

Resume is here. Curriculum vitae is here.

JLN Dr. Alvin B. Marcelo Interview from Joint Learning Network on Vimeo.

MA4Health Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 26, 2016


Promoting free/open source software since 1994.


Projects:

CHITS - Community Health Information Tracking System. An open source electronic medical record developed by Dr. Herman Tolentino

ISIS - Integrated Surgical Information System. A system developed and maintained by Dr. Marie Carmela Lapitan at the Philippine General Hospital Department of Surgery. The longest and largest live clinical database in the Philippines.

SILab - Standards and Interoperability Lab supporting national standards development and adoption through communities of practice.

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