ABDILLAH FARKHAN

Literacy Skills

Literacy skills include reading, understanding, using, and evaluating an object of information. Young people have more literacy skills than other age groups and have these capabilities. Children may be able to read and play mobile applications, but they don’t understand the importance of contact tracing and are unwilling to use…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing your experience. Covid-19 has made everyone work to break the chain of transmission. I am sure that whatever our profession and institution, we have worked and actualized the appropriate ethical principles as best we can.

It is good to set up Primary Health Care as the first line of healthcare service for the population. Better UHC implementation relies on strong PHC as it is accessible and community-centered.

I am now assigned as technical staff for the surveillance of PHEIC (Public Health Emergency of International Concern) in the Directorate General of Disease Prevention and Control under the Indonesia Ministry of Health. This office was one of the busiest agencies during Covid-19 instead of hospitals, airports, and quarantine settlements. So, it is…[Read more]

Before Universal Health Coverage (UHC), many districts created various ad-hoc social security schemes as the impact of decentralization which implied the heterogeneity of health system but exacerbated the equity gap. Then, the paradigm UHC had been started in 2014 to expand access to health services and protect people from the risk of poverty due…[Read more]

Of course, important to be aware of the agreement to avoid misuse of data. I think it is indispensable particularly before the applicants ask for the specific datasets, they should be asked for this point. An application form to request data should attach clear information about do, don’t, and consequences.

Thank you, guys. I think all of us have a similar situation. Though our subject is quite uncommon enough, it is a pleasure to pioneering health informatics in our society. I believe that our existence will influence the advancement of health in this digital era.

Thank you, guys. I think all of us have a similar situation. Though our subject is quite uncommon enough, it is a pleasure to pioneering health informatics in our society. I believe that our existence will influence the advancement of health in this digital era.

My country has a narrow of health informaticians and is facing a lack of influx to this profession. This position seems unpopular due to the shortage of participating students in this particular educational program and the unmet workforce planning supply.

Over the last two decades, Indonesia’s labor force has been shifting from high school to u…[Read more]

If I were the owner of data or metadata, perhaps data sharing is one of the imperative obligations I need to undertake as it is a public pretension in my own country where transparency should be mainstreamed. Even in the government sector, data and information disclosure has become the main parameter for bureaucratic reform. So, I absolutely would…[Read more]

Community and health facilities-based change projects share an extremely valuable sense. As always, I am impressed you’ve been taking the risk to pioneering digital transformation through your project.

Appreciate that you have shared comprehensive approach in responding to the challenges in the big data era. While I pay too much attention on human resource capacity, other focuses such as collaboration, partnerships and governance are also important. It cannot be denied that the development of big data and AI may be faster than what humans can do.

AGE-SPECIFIC MORTALITY RATE

Age-specific mortality rate is defined as the number of deaths in a particular age/age group in a specific geographical area (city, state, country) per 1.000 population in the same age/age group. It can be calculated by dividing those dying at a particular age/age group by the population in that age/age…[Read more]

In Indonesia, we are still in the transition period from conventional to electronic where not all healthcare facilities have adopted EMR. This transformation has been supported by a Minister of Health regulation issued in September 2022 due to demands from health professionals as there was no clear legal basis for EMR. After the policy was issued,…[Read more]

Big data in cardiovascular disease (CVD) leverages to improve treatment, research, and development of CVD. However, management of big data contains significant issues where capacity of human resources (health informaticians or data scientists) is the key to addressing any significant complexities. Here are the best practices of copying mechanisms…[Read more]

Thank you for elucidating a best practice to detect and monitor falls among elders. I agree that one of the cons arises from this concept is patient privacy which limits their movement.

Sure.
Here is the link to download the file:
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/254716/9789290225164-eng.pdf
This provides more comprehensive challenges than I mentioned above.

And this one is also worthwhile:
https://digilib.esaunggul.ac.id/public/UEU-Article-13220-5_0131.pdf

I agreed about all four key recommendations as the strategies to combat corruption in health system. These recommendations highlighted interconnected actions through stakeholder collaboration and holistic research and are in line with SDG 16 in order to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice…[Read more]

Let me brief an example of health system improvement in the aspect of health financing supported by the role of information system in my own country.

Financing for health, particularly health care service delivery has uplifted since the implementation of mandatory social security insurance (called JKN) at the beginning of 2014. Before JKN…[Read more]

I’ve been joining a branch office that does not manage a domain controller for any type of information system belonging to the Ministry of Health; hence, we are not assigned to data center maintenance. A strict policy does not allow branch office to erect their own servers and web applications, but we’ve been given authority to set up net…[Read more]