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THE Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) 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.
The site consolidates essential materials into a single trusted location. By streamlining access to these resources, the PIDS-HEFP portal aims to reduce information gaps and support timely, data-driven action across the health sector.
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.
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Operations manuals and other technical guides will also be uploaded to support the ongoing nationwide transition to performance-based, prospective payment.
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.
The PIDS-HEFP website draws on the agency's long-standing mandate to generate and mobilize policy research for better governance. Visit the portal at https://hefp.pids.gov.ph/.
