Tanrutedong Health Centre Launches Five Innovations to Improve Service Quality

The Tanrutedong Community Health Centre (Puskesmas) in Sidenreng Rappang Regency has demonstrated its commitment to improving the quality of healthcare services by launching five new innovations designed to address various health and administrative needs. These initiatives were conceived by health workers and staff within the Puskesmas environment. The first innovation, ALKES PENSI (Health Alarm for Hypertension Care), initiated by Dr Ayuni Noprianti Idris, aims to raise awareness among hypertension patients to regularly monitor their blood pressure and adhere to treatment, thereby minimising the risk of complications. The second, ERUPSI (Parental Education to Understand Children’s Tooth Eruption Timing at Tanrutedong Health Centre), initiated by dentist Nurul Marhamah Husain, seeks to enhance parents’ understanding of the timing of children’s tooth eruption through accessible and engaging educational media, promoting early attention to dental and oral health. In the pharmaceutical sector, the health centre introduced Si-BUD (Beyond Use Date Information System), initiated by pharmacist Wahyuni. This innovation optimises the delivery of information regarding the Beyond Use Date of medications to ensure safer, more effective, and rational use in accordance with regulations. Another innovation, SIPATEN (Verified Patient Identity Filling System), was developed by medical records professional Nurul Rezky G. It optimises the complete, accurate, and verified entry of new patient identities into the E-Puskesmas application, thereby improving the quality of medical record data as a basis for healthcare services and decision-making. The fifth innovation, TERAPIS (Strategic Health Centre Archive Technology), initiated by Harisah, utilises Microsoft Access to optimise the digital management of incoming and outgoing correspondence archives. This system aims to improve administrative service efficiency, reduce the risk of document loss or damage, and support the implementation of a digital-based administration system. Through TERAPIS, the health centre targets 95 to 100 percent digitisation of its correspondence archives, a document retrieval time of less than five minutes, and aims for 90 to 100 percent of staff to be able to manage and access digital archives independently. The Head of the Tanrutedong Community Health Centre, Bd. Hj. Nurtang, expressed appreciation for the emergence of these innovations, noting that they were born from community needs and the daily experiences of health workers. She expressed hope that the five innovations would provide benefits and a positive impact for both the health centre and the community it serves, and that they could serve as an example to be replicated by other health centres in Sidenreng Rappang Regency and beyond in the effort to realise increasingly high-quality and innovative healthcare services.