1.Have you ever observed a health informatics project in your (other) organization? Please provide a brief introduction.
While I worked with National AIDS Program of Myanmar, I had a chance to participate in collecting HIV Sentinel Surveillance (HSS) Survey. As it was a paper-based surveillance, it was costly in terms of paper, labor and space for storing and so on compared to modern electronice surveillance system mention in papers.
How can this health informatics project help to improve the current practices?
The HSS identify the HIV positivity among key population which in terms helps setting HIV prevention and control targets of the National AIDS Program.
Are there any challenges or difficulties in implementing the project?
In additiona to the difficulties of paper-based surveillance mentioned above, there were misunderstanding of data collection process by the clinical specialists, privacy breach, and loss of quality data in the long data collection process.