UP Manila and Microcircuits Corporation Hold Ceremonial Turnover for eMed EHR Partnership

July 11, 2025

Text by Charmaine A. Lingdas

Photos by Sarah Hazel Moces Pulumbarit

From left: Microcircuits Project Director for EHRs Wilson Chan, President and CEO Rosendo Go, UPM TTBDO Lourdes Marie Tejero, eMed inventor Dr. Raffy Marfori and UP Manila Chancellor Michael Tee

The University of the Philippines Manila (UP Manila) and Microcircuits Corporation marked a significant milestone in their partnership, highlighting their shared commitment to improving healthcare through technology. During the event, Microcircuits Corporation turned over the first income share from the eMed electronic health record (EHR) system, with a ceremonial event held on July 9, 2025, at the UP Manila Boardroom.

Developed with the Filipino healthcare context in mind, the eMed EHR is a health technology that aims to make healthcare delivery more efficient and accessible. The eMed EHR allows doctors and health professionals to easily access and update medical records from patient history and medications to lab results and imaging reports across multiple clinics. The eMed EHR was co-developed through a collaboration between UP College of Medicine (UPCM) and Microcircuits Corporation. The primary collaborators from UPCM were Dr. Antonio Dans, Professor Emeritus, and Dr. Jose Rafael “Raffy” Marfori, Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology, and a former Special Assistant to the Director at the Philippine General Hospital.

“I’d like to thank the inventors for making the people of the Philippines feel the value of good research, and of the service that UP is capable of doing. And to our partners for trusting that UP is able to do the promise of serving our people with honor and excellence,” said Chancellor Michael Tee.

“I’d like to thank our TTBDO with our Director Lourdes Tejero, for making sure that our investors, our partners, and the people will feel the presence of the University of the Philippines, especially in the Health Sciences,” he added.

Microcircuits President and CEO Rosendo Go traced the origins of the collaboration, which started over an informal conversation at a restaurant, and led to the co-development with UP Manila doctors of a user-friendly EHR system tailored to rural health units (RHUs) and barangay health stations (BHS). “The good thing about this EHR software is that it was designed through collaboration with healthcare personnel within the locality—not just the RHU,” he shared.

He also highlighted the system’s successful implementation in the province of Bataan, where telemedicine is used to connect BHS midwives to RHU doctors, significantly improving turnaround and trust in healthcare services. “We’re very happy with that, and we’ve continuously evolved the system to go beyond just EHR by addressing all the reporting needs of the DOH,” he added.

TTBDO Director Tejero expressed her gratitude to Microcircuits for their support and to the UP Manila leadership for pushing forward innovation. “Thank you also for helping bring these innovations to our kababayan—that’s really part of UP’s vision and goal: to make a real impact on health outcomes,” she said.

The event brought together key representatives from both parties, including UP Manila TTBDO members: Supervising Technology Management Officer Engr. Kevin Ocampo, Junior Legal Associate Atty. Margarita Avila, Junior Office Manager Sherry San Diego, and Junior Development Management Associate Jimmy Reynoso, Jr.; eMed inventors Dr. Raffy Marfori; Microcircuits Chief Technology Officer and Project Director for EHRs Wilson Chan; and UP System TTBDO Deputy Director Jose Emmanuel Reverente.