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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.

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.

Has your computer or a computer in your workplace ever been attacked by a cyber threat? How did it happen?
What was the cause? How was your computer or data affected?
What can you do to prevent it from happening again in the future?

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

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 w…[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]

etc

From your opinion or experience, 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 (IS) to be implemented in order to solve the problems. Which components (hardware, software, data, process, and people) do you think are problematic…[Read more]

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]

For assignment 2.1, please discuss the following questions:

1. Why was the author interested in investigating the suicide problem in Thailand during the time?
2. Each of students picks one potential risk factor mentioned in the paper and explains how the variable can contribute to the suicide rate?
3. How statistical modeling can contribute to…[Read more]

For assignment 1.1, please discuss the following questions:
1. What are possible reasons locations in epidemiological research have not been incorporated as much as other components in epidemiological research? How can spatial epidemiology be considered as an interdisciplinary science?
2. Explain why it is widely recognized that the place where an…[Read more]

Paper: Young key affected population in Myanmar: are there any challenges in seeking information and care for HIV/sexually transmitted infections and reproductive health?

Discussion:
1. What additional factors should be considered to identify barriers and unmet needs in health information seeking among youth for HIV/STI and RH than in the…[Read more]