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According to a paper by Shaw T, et al. on “What is eHealth (6)?”, there are several definitions that can explain “eHealth”. In your opinion, what should be a definition of eHealth?

Can you give an example of data that you think it could be considered as “Big Data”? What are the characteristics of the data that fit into 5Vs, or 7Vs, or 10Vs of Big data characteristics?

We can consider that health informatics can help to increase value of healthcare practices, in terms of cost, user satisfaction, and superior outcomes. The papers provided in the reading assignment also discuss on how public health informatics can help to improve disease surveillance and the challenges of the implementation, particularly changing…[Read more]

You would like to develop a web-based application for patient appointments. The application will allow a patient to make doctor appointments online. For making an appointment, a patient must provide information, such as name, citizen ID, Hospital number (if available), clinical signs and symptoms (to send the patient to the appropriate…[Read more]

During the COVID-19 outbreak, information technology has played an important role in outbreak management. Many health information systems, Applications have been developed which aim to assist the outbreak monitoring and control. In your point of view, is there any Health IT project that you think could perform better if we applied some public…[Read more]

A professional in public health or 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 profession in public health or health informatics.

What intervention(s) you are considering in your modelling and how it will be added to the model structure. What are the characteristics of the intervention(s) (e.g. coverage, efficacy etc.) (10 points)

By the end of the week, I would like you to submit to the discussion board.

-What model structure would the disease you are interested be and please start adjusting the R code to that structure.

– Please state the key characteristics of the disease you are focusing on e.g. transmission, pathogenicity, symptoms, control measures etc. You can…[Read more]

By the end of the week, I would like you to submit to the discussion board.

The disease topic you are interested to explore as your individual assignment – choose one that you are familiar with and clarify the scope of your research e.g. is it at a region/country/ global level?

What research questions you want to use the modelling approach to g…[Read more]

If you come across any problem in this course please contact me here, email: pan@tropmedres.ac or by Line (probably quickest).

If one day while you are playing the internet through the web browser, there is a warning message suddenly prompting that “Your computer is now infected with 20 viruses.” Click “Clean” button to kill those viruses. What will you do? Why?

Has your own computer or computer system at your workplace been attacked by a virus/malware? Briefly explain the causes,
– where did the virus/malware come from?
– What happened to your computer or computer system?
– How to prevent virus/malware attacks again?

Why is dashboard for data visualization important for healthcare? If you want to design a good dashboard, what are characteristics of your dashboard you are going to design?

If you want to build a mobile app, what app do you want to build and why? What types of mobile app (native, web, and hybrid app) would you like to choose to build? Please provide your reasons.

If you want to create an application whether a web app or mobile app, what programming language would you like to use to build and develop your app, why?

How Internet technology is useful for improving the quality of healthcare and medicine in the country? In your country, what are the challenges of using the Internet in healthcare?

Suppose you want to collect blood pressure data from people in certain areas using wearable blood pressure devices and bring the data to the computer system of the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) for further data analysis. In your opinion, what types of network (PAN, LAN, MAN, and WAN) can be used to transmit the data from the devices to the…[Read more]

From your experiences, what system do you think is still having problems, whether the system in your workplace or a system of government or private agencies that needs an Information System to be implemented in order to solve the problems.

To get to know each other, please post a VDO clip to introduce yourself.
1. Your name
2. Your background
3. What kind of work you are doing, particularly works that related to informatics.
4. What you expect to learn in the BHI online program

Please upload your introduction clip…[Read more]