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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]

Think about monkeypox…
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 s…[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.

Have you ever…[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.

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.

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?