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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?

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. The article by Muhiyaddin R, et al.…[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 how public health informatics can help to improve public health practices and the challenges of the implementation.

If you are a director or an executive of a hospital, do you have a plan to move the hospital’s information system to cloud computing? Please briefly provide reasons.