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Please share about the work towards the UHC scheme in your country, what works and what needs to be done to make it work, strength and weakness, for example. (10 marks)

———— Deadline 6 February 2023 Pls reply before ————-

In your opinion, what is the situation of health informatics workforce in your country? What are the challenges regarding this issue?

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“If you are in charge of a data set from your country, will you be thinking about data sharing and why?” (10 marks)

Share or not to share…no right or wrong 🙂

What the good and bad of using EMR instead of the traditional paper based medical records in your setting? (10 Marks)

—————————- Deadline 23 January 2022 Pls reply before ————————————

What are your suggestions on coping with those challenges? (10 marks)
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Data such as name, date of birth, citizenID, Hospital ID, phone number are considered as identifiable data. However, sometimes even there is no identifiable data provided. With a combination of non-identifiable data such as age, sex, occupation…., people can probably identify you.
Let’s try thinking about the combination of non-identifiable dat…[Read more]

Imagine that you’re analyzing survey responses with regard to the use of bednets for prevention of malaria. You find that a large proportion of respondents report not using bednets. However, you have no data about why they are not using bednets. What approach(es) might you use in order to figure out why respondents are not using bednets?

If you were replacing an old technology with a new one that is easier to use, what would the TAM suggest about it’s relative usefulness? (i.e. should it be at least as useful as the old technology?)

What are some specific ‘external variables’ that you think might influence an individuals’ perceived ease of use or perceived usefulness of a new technology?

The main objective of an experimental study is to assess whether the intervention is working well or not. There are three terms related to the outcome measure in experimental study:
1. Efficacy
2. Effectiveness
3. Efficiency
Could you give a brief explanation of these three terms?

In a study to determine contact patterns in Thailand, people were encouraged to use a contract tracing application over a 3-month period. The researcher found that young adults had the most active contact pattern than other age groups. Please help identify confounders for this association. Please provide one confounder for each student, and please…[Read more]

Choose one (or more) of the following vital statistics and describe
1. Definition of each vital statistic?
2. How to calculate each vital statistic?
3. What are the main usefulness of each vital statistic?

Here is a list of vital statistics.
Case-Fatality rate
Mortality rate
Age-specific mortality rate
Maternal mortality rate
Infant mortality…[Read more]

Please give your view on the four recommended points that public health professionals can do to fight corruption.
Do you agree or disagree, why? Any other suggestion which could work better to fight corruption in your setting? (10 marks)

—————————- Deadline 15 January 2023 Pls reply before ————————————

Please providing an example of health system improvement in any health setting and discuss the possible barriers that could occur in that system improvement process. (10 Marks)

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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?

Reflect and report some factors related to healthcare resources during the pandemic, categorized by a STEEP letter in your setting.

STEEP – Social, Technologies, Environment, Economic and Political – what factors influence the healthcare resources in your setting based on these categories?
Lack of communication due to WFH and social dis…[Read more]

Post and share your project plan using either flowchart or Gantt chart in Topic Discussion

Please write a short paragraph about yourself to describe a moment where you decided to step out from your comfort zone and take a new action (5 points).

Say …
WHY did you decide to do that?
WHAT did it feel like after the event?
WHAT did you gain from this new experience? (could be good and bad)
To be fair, this is mine:
I have been a e…[Read more]