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A professional in public health informatics (an informatician) requires knowledge and skills from multi-disciplines. According to your background, could you briefly discuss what kinds of knowledge and skills that you would need to gain in order to improve your professional in public health informatics.
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I think informatician is very important to improve thinking concept about method to design jobs. The best dream home are come from the best design.
1. I would like to learn project Management.
2. I would like to learn about designing new jobs.
3. I would like to learn about basic information science and computer science.
4. I would like to learn about Different of data management.
5. I would like to develop Interest jobs. -
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According to my background as a clinician, to be a public health informatician I have to gain knowledge and skills a lot in the field of computational & mathematical sciences and also the management & communication within the team.
I already know public health concepts and a few statistics from my work. I can identify what is the problem but, I have to improve my knowledge in health data standards, database design, data privacy, data visualization and it’s implemented to support the use in public health practice. The communication within the team which should be consist of public health personnel and IT man is also an important skill, and I need to gain this skill in order to improve my professional in public health informatics.
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Public health informatics and medical informatics have similar core concepts, such as data standards, privacy & security, data utilization, and IT issues. I hope that knowledge and skills from this class would also help you to apply to your clinical practice. 🙂
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K.Tullaya, I have to accepts that my math skill is at the dumpy level whilst most of the reliable project is proved and verified by math/stat. more or less, so If I have one pray I’d ask for being more skilled in computational & mathematical sciences too.
As my day-to-day jobs are handling people all day long, communication skills are what I think the most important soft skills and I still wanted to gain more and more especially among organization which has different interest.
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In my experience on programming (and also what I have read on web communities), math skills aren’t really needed as much, although some analytical skills will be needed, if you program a really low level, including sensors used in the IoT.
Although if you program Python PANDAS or NumPy; or perhaps OpenCV, some applied mathematics would be needed.
Always needed, though is indeed some analytical skills, and desire to create new things, not math.
It really depends on the domain of programming.
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I am glad to hear that math skills aren’t really needed as much, because I have ever learn in bio-statistics course, but my main interest is more depend on non-mathematical subjects.
I heard about Python is the most popular language for Big Data analysis, and I want to learn a free course online too, if I have free time.
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As a medical doctor, I have to gain more knowledge and skill in public health practices, data design and management, data privacy and security, health system, data interoperability, management information system development, and the use of analytic software.
In conclusion, to become public health informatician, I have to add-on my medical knowledge with both public health and information technology discipline. It is not necessary to become expertise in both field, but I have to gain insight in the core of public health informatics, so as to facilitate collaboration between public health and information technology expert, and establish the “TEAM” work, not bearing everything to work on my own.
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K. Anothai, I could not agree more, we cannot be good at everything but we can have a good insight on almost everything. Every workplace has already an IT geek but they missed one person who can bring all to the same purpose easily. One who has this skill is a golden man. I think all the subjects in this program is the answer for us.
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As a medical doctor and working at Public Health Program, I’m have background knowledge to some extent.
I’m also working as a Program Officer of OpenMRS(Medical Record System) at Public Health Program (National TB and HIV/AIDS Program) and I have 3 and half years of knowledge about EMR (computer technology).
As informatician, I would like to learn statistics, management, computer science, organizational theory, law related to information.-
Pyae Phyo Aung; Is your program a national or funded by international org. ? Hoping I can learn more from you on your program and how you manage it. The same as you, law or regulatory things is a must for information. I think how the US response to informatics by ARRA is what we should study.
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Hi, Pyae Phyo Aung.
I admire you. From listening to your experience, I think that may be you are the pioneer of this new emerging field in Burma. I don’t have any experience about health informatics before, but I hope that this course can bring me to know and get connected with other informaticians or expert, and learning a lot from them. 😀
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As a staff in the insurance business which is a profit organization and has a wide range of business partners, I am looking for skills that make myself be able to run our operational process smoothly and efficiently. So, primarily, I’d like to gain knowledge on any Evidence-based decision support system or modeling and skills to visualize and communicate the results to all stakeholders and manage the collaboration among them.
From my experiences at work, most of our partners, especially in Thailand has poor skills in management of information. Most of our time spent to make data from/to other parties compatible with each other as they have their own format and interest before making any decision. So some time the decision made quite late and it affects some services agreement which surely affects profit. Hopefully taking this program I can have more ideas in the big picture of how to manage the situation.
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Yes, Evidence-based decision support system is my concerned as a clinician,too.
Clinicians make day-to-day medical decision based on their own clinical experience, expert consultation, and clinical evidence review in the internet. Every doctor learn that “there is no 100% percent in medicine”, but I want to minimized the error of medical decision to be little as possible by the help of evidence-based decision support system.
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First and foremost, I think we need management skills, to be able to create and manage new or existing projects, and to be able to recruit talents to the team. We should also be able to handle technology changes and Disruption. Also, we should be able to create a data-driven organization with similar vision — evidence-based.
Of course, the skills related to managing IoT and big data is need, but it is still ranked second to management skills. The reasons? We took University PT for 1 year for what; to be leaders, although somewhat a CTO (Chief Technical Officer). I also would want to leverage an open source project; although, if not possible, I would create anew.
Thirdly, it would be ethical and legal implications of data management/collection, including confidentiality, privacy.
A big question is indeed, how to form a team including a wide range of disciplines, who will need to be recruited.
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After finishing all things this week, especially for enterprise architecture. I agree that the most important skills for informaticians to create a blueprint to merge an IT with the business goal is a management skill. The recruitment of skillful personnel and leads them to put an idea on the project without conflict or argument is one of the keys for successful EA development.
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I think of myself as the end user of Health Informatics i.e “THE HOUSE OWNER” who knows what he want the house to look like to be able to live in the house happily but do not know how to design and build the house. As a clinician & researcher, I know what data/information should be collected to be used for analysis but I need a good IT guy who can make the link of all information-shaping them and constructing a beautiful house so that I can comfortably reside in.
I need some IT knowledge to be able to communicate my ideas and plan so that the IT team can design how the data should be linked up accordingly. -
As a clinician and public health epidemiologist, I have had the background about health, statistics and research development methods. However, I would like to gain more experience in technology security and legislation, designing, monitoring and evaluation focusing on health informatics. Furthermore, I would like to learn about human development and management skill to run effective health informatics projects.
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I work as a medical technologist, and I also have bioinformatics skills. I have learned how to play with genetic data for individual purposes, so then I want to know more how to utilize and apply them with a population level. I realised that I need to improve statistic skills and even health and biological knowledge, and I want gain more experiences in management, organization, communication, as well as data maintainance, for instance. I don’t only want to know or remember but I want to understand; and I can apply all PHI skills in the real situation/work. Moreover, An important thing is that I will have a good network for consulting and talking after we finishing this course.
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To improve my professional in PH informatics, I need more knowledge on medical science and focus more on the causation for generating population-based preventive measures. My difficult part is to improve computer and mathematical skills for efficiently managing data, so I should get to know more information technicians and have a good network with experts in this field for consultation. Lastly, I need to learn about management skills to work with other professionals.
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According to my medical and research background, I would need to gain more knowledge on application of informative science and technology in order to improve my project management. Better handling larger scale data will improve my level of capacity to prevent the diseases to national or even global level. I would like to focus on different tools and generate more reliable and comprehensive information for health decision-makers to fight the under five childhood mortalities and morbidities.
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Hello lecture and everyone, it’s greate to see you all.
Firstly, I apologize for my late and hope you will forgive me T/\T
For Dr.Saranath’s discussion topic about knowledge and skills which I would need to gain in order to improve the professional in public health informatics.I agree with K’Tullaya. Although my background has never related to the medical field. (My background as SAP consultant (SAP is the enterprise software which user in large business), all data around me are business process and transaction data). To be a professional in public health informatics, in my openion, you should have multiple skills, both hard and soft skill. For hard skill; system design, technical & functional skills (database design/ mathematics), tools in data management or visualization and for soft skill; management, good decision making, communication to communicate with team. These skills can help you to manage and operate project well.
Nowadays, just IT & healthcare skills maybe not enough. There are a lot of new technologies, for example, Big data, data analytics, advance data analytics, deep learning, machine learning, data visualization etc. These are new technology, platform and technology trends that the informatician should learn add-on and don’t forget to update the currenct knowledge/research/trend in healthcare as well.
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