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Please read the article by Jillian Murray and Adam L Cohen. Infectious Disease Surveillance. (2017) International Encyclopedia of Public Health, 2nd edition, Volume 4.

Think about COVID-19 disease…
How can surveillance help to detect and control the disease?
Should we conduct active or passive surveillance or both for the disease, why?
Which…[Read more]

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)?

Feel free to leave us questions in the forum below if you can’t make it on the day and we will response them during the session.

Feel free to leave us questions in the forum below if you can’t make it on the day and we will response them during the session.

Feel free to leave us questions in the forum below if you can’t make it on the day and we will response them during the session.

Can you give an example of a 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?

You have learned the benefits of Health Information Exchange. The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is one of the basic structures in order to exchange information among different departments/organizations.

Recently, there are many reports stating that EMR is one of top leading causes of physician burnout. Here is an example:…[Read more]

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 clinic).…[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]

Enterprise architecture provides a single plan that guides the interoperability of different systems or health IT projects across an organization (enterprise). If you would like to design an enterprise architecture of a health information system among different hospitals within your province, who should be involved in the designing process? What…[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.

How the Internet of Things and Big Data are improving healthcare? What are the challenges of embracing these technologies in a healthcare organization?