CareGo EMR wins WHO Western Pacific Innovation Challenge
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Out of the 400+ innovators from 37 countries, 29 winners were able to earn a place in the first ever held World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Innovation Challenge, which urges innovations for the future of public health.
CareGo EMR (CP Health Innovations, Inc.) is one of the 29 winning innovations selected by the WHO for the Western Pacific Innovation Challenge: Innovation for the Future of Public Health last April 28-29, 2022. Included in this list are innovators from the Philippine Department of Health, PATH, Bot MD, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, CarbGem, research universities, and non-profit organizations in Western Pacific. According to WHO, the Challenge aimed to source and select innovators with profound understandings of the health needs of people in the Western Pacific, and to create an ecosystem of innovators who have sustainable, cost-effective and inclusive solutions that can address these needs.
CareGo EMR is also one of the six Filipino innovations that won the challenge. In this article by Margo Hannah De Guzman Quadra on Good News Pilipinas, she showcases the solutions done by each innovator and how they help communities.
CareGo EMR is known as an early-stage startup that materializes its program and research through its partnership with several rural healthcare communities, non-profit and non-government organizations, universities, and private institutions. After clinching the spot on the innovation challenge, CareGo EMR has yet again achieved another milestone.
CareGo EMR has deemed its intention significant and aligned to the challenge set by the WHO with its projects targeting the gap in the vaccination management system in the Philippines and an SMS nudging network whose focus is to help health workers manage and monitor health programs for the community.
According to the WHO, all participants of the Challenge are now valuable members of the Western Pacific public innovation ecosystem. Cheers to all the Filipino innovators and to a brighter future for Public Healthcare!
Article by: Ace Gapiza
Ace Gapiza is a student intern from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. CP Health Innovations, Inc. served as a Host Training Establishment in partnership with the University to train the students to become competitive and technologically innovative professionals through actual exposure to a professional workplace on the student internship program.