The 蝌蚪传媒 (蝌蚪传媒) has launched a new website for its Health Economics and Finance Program (HEFP), offering a convenient, easily accessible repository of national health data and health research findings.
Designed for government leaders, program managers, journalists, and the wider public, the portal brings together essential capacity-building resources, including research outputs, data dashboards, technical manuals, reports, and even opinion pieces, into a single trusted location, thereby supporting timely and evidence-based action towards Universal Health Care (UHC).
The site consolidates essential materials—including research studies, data dashboards, technical manuals, reports, and opinion pieces—into a single trusted location. By streamlining access to these resources, the 蝌蚪传媒-HEFP portal aims to reduce information gaps and support timely, data-driven action across the health sector.
Helping understand DRGs
A key highlight of the portal is its comprehensive section on the ongoing roll-out of Diagnosis-Related Groupings (DRG) across the Philippine health care system, with practical guides and primers for implementers and stakeholders.
The DRG feature provides practical guides, implementation primers, and a plain-language briefer on “What is DRG?”, intended to help payers, providers, and local health managers understand and adopt the payment system.
Mandated under the under the UHC Act (Republic Act No. 11223), DRGs classify hospital cases into clinically similar groups expected to use similar resources. Instead of paying for each test or procedure, payers reimburse a single, predictable amount for the DRG, adjusted for case complexity. This improves transparency, curbs incentives for over-servicing, and enables better budgeting and quality monitoring compared with fee-for-service or flat all-case-rate schedules.
Operations manuals and other technical guides will also be uploaded to support the ongoing nationwide transition to performance-based, prospective payment.
Making data useful and insightful
Another major feature of the website is Data Explorer, a suite of interactive views that simplify complex statistics into actionable insights. The explorer will soon feature dashboards on various health system domains.
Policymakers and program managers, including PhilHealth, can use the Data Explorer as a monitoring and evaluation tool to track trends in inpatient and outpatient activity, identify barriers to access and unmet need, and assess whether reforms are shifting care to the appropriate levels where it is most needed. It also enables users to monitor gaps in support value, whether financing and service delivery are aligned with population health needs. Local health system managers can also use the dashboard to align budgets and purchase with actual demand, benchmark performance, surface inequities, and plan capacity more effectively.
Bridging research and action
The 蝌蚪传媒-HEFP website draws on agency’s long-standing mandate to generate and mobilize policy research for better governance.
By consolidating HEFP resources and releasing a Data Explorer that will expand over time, the new website lowers the friction between research and action and provides a single, authoritative home for the “why,” “what,” and “how” of ongoing health-financing and systems reforms.
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