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If you are going to develop a disaster recovery plan for your organization’s information system, in your personal opinion, what procedures should be included in the plan, what technology (backup, replicate, or any other technology) is suitable for your organinzation regarding budget, system scale or size, and people?

If you implement the High Availablity technology in your hospital information system (HIS), in your opinion, what benefits will patients and hospital receive?

According to the principle of information security or CIA Triad, have you ever had experience about not being able to preserve the confidentiality or Integrity or Availablity of your information system? Please share that experience.

What happened?
How did it affect the system or users?
And how to prevent it?

Think and share an idea of your project and some touches on the 12 steps on project management taught in the online course.

Think and share some ideas on some tricks you can do to motivate other members in your team as a leader. If this is not relevant to your experience, just share how you can motivate yourself. These are all valuable to us!

Please watch VDOs of public communication regarding COVID-19 situation from the leaders of two countries: Singapore and the USA. Then try to observe whether the two leaders are good communicators or not. When watching the VDOs try to look for the six principles of CREC, recommended by the CDC:

Identify and share the story/opinion about your listening skill that you may want to improve up on, and why it is.
What are some actions that you will try to make fit to your context?

Identify and share the story/opinion about your strongest and weakest components of EQ and what action plan you would like to take to improve this.

The article provides a roadmap for the implementation of digital health policy by stakeholders to prepare for and address current and future pandemics. Based on the themes proposed in the article, which theme(s) do you think that your country still lacks or needs improvement to strengthen the preparedness in your country.

Could you list the disease outbreaks that have been declared as the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)?
Why do these outbreaks raise such concerns?
In your opinion, is there a disease or condition that may potentially lead to PHEIC in the future? Why?

Select two specific gaps mentioned in the current surveillance system based on the report. In your opinion, how could these gaps be addressed? Provide detailed explanations on how these improvements could be implemented, considering the hepatitis B situation in Korea and the existing surveillance framework.

In the publication by Chung J et al., the Korean hepatitis B surveillance system has operated under a mandatory surveillance approach for over a decade. The evaluation highlighted significant improvements over time and provided a comprehensive assessment of the system from various perspectives. While the system demonstrated satisfactory…[Read more]

Please read the article by Jobie Budd, et al. Digital technologies in the public-health response to COVID-19. (2020) Nature Medicine. Vol 26:1183-1192

This article gave examples on the application of digital technologies to enhance COVID-19 surveillance and response. Please give 1 technology or tool that you like most and briefly explain how it…[Read more]

1. How can surveillance help to detect and control the disease?

2. Should we conduct active or passive surveillance or both for the disease, why?

3.Which method should be best to identify cases, why?

a. Cases in medical facilities VS community

b. Sentinel VS population-based surveillance

c. Case-based VS aggregated surveillance

d. Syndromic…[Read more]

Please watch the VDO for topic discussion.

Please watch the VDO for topic discussion.

Please give an example of a system in your organization (either successful or fail)—this could be the same system you mentioned in the previous topic discussion (Topic 1). Do you think that the organization appropriately managed the change or not? Think about ADKAR model that we just learned.

Please give an example of a system in your organization (either successful or fail). What are main factors that make the system successful or failure (Data, Cost, Operation, Design, and People)?

Can you give an example of Decision Support System used in your organization?

Is it working well?

Are there any factors that might influence the decision support system implementation in your organization?

Currently, most hospitals use the ICD standard to classify disease diagnosis. What would happen if the hospitals in the country do not use the ICD standard?