Depok, November 17th 2023. When consuming food, awareness of the nutritional content of the food may be neglected. As a result, a person experiences obesity or malnutrition. Young UI researchers created an information system called Canteen Care which acts as a nutrition education platform, where every time a student buys certain food or drinks, educational messages will appear regarding the nutritional content of the food purchased. Through the CanteenCare health information system, high schools that implement it will be able to monitor their students’ nutritional consumption and take quick action if there is an incident of food poisoning.
Two teams of students from the Faculty of Public Health (FKM) at the Universitas Indonesia (UI) won champion titles in the 2023 Indonesian Public Health Olympiad (IPHO) competition organized by the Association of Indonesian Public Health Universities (AIPTKMI). They won 1st place in the Public Health Information System Design category thanks to CanteenCare innovation and 2nd place in the Health Policy Analysis category for their idea of optimizing Electronic Medical Records (EMRs).
The team of Rowena Sofia Zepanya, Annabel Serafina, and Yolanda Claudia Zipora saw the importance of paying attention to the diet of high school students as an important transition group from childhood to adulthood, giving rise to the CanteenCare innovation which integrates nutritional monitoring, health education, and food hygiene monitoring in the canteen. “CanteenCare is present as a health information system that acts as a database of canteen food menus, as well as a medium for students to order canteen food. Through this innovation, students can order canteen food according to the application flow that has been designed, then the canteen seller will make orders according to the orders entered in the application,” said Rowena.
Apart from paying attention to the nutritional balance of students, the school can also pay attention to the hygiene of the food in the school canteen area. If there is an incident of food poisoning, the school can follow up quickly so as not to have an impact on increasing other incidents of poisoning.
The team consisting of Nadya Arifta Auliazaki, Fania Nur Khoifatunisa, and Rina Febri Panjaitan carried out a Health Policy Analysis by raising the topic “Optimizing Integrated EMRs for Digital Health Services”. Integrating EMRs is useful for facilitating coordination at health service facilities in carrying out accurate, up-to-date, comprehensive, and efficient documentation of patient medical records, thereby reducing the risk of medical errors.
Indonesia’s population has medical records in digital and paper form as many as 270 million. These medical records are managed by thousands of individual-based health service providers in more than 400 management applications spread across central and regional levels. Problems related to infrastructure and limited health human resources can be minimized by providing training that pays attention to interoperability aspects, so that information transfer can still pay attention to quality control.
The interoperability aspect must pay attention to three levels of information technology, namely foundational, structural, and semantic. By implementing optimization on this problem, the implementation of EMRs can run more optimally and comprehensively. Integrating EMRs can provide easy access to patient health data, thereby improving coordination in the delivery of health services.
Vice Dean for Education, Research, and Student Affairs FKM UI, Dr. Ir. Asih Setiarini, M.Sc., is very proud of the achievements of her students in the competition which took place at FIK UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, on 8th–9th of November 2023. “I think the information system, CanteenCare, which was developed by these students will provide education to the community, especially high school students who are most exposed to various contemporary foods. The same goes for the idea of optimizing EMRs to suit current conditions,” she said.
She continued, “In the current era, all aspects of life have been digitized, including various things in the health sector. It is hoped that this can also improve existing health services and human health resources.”
