Than Htike Aung

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw the full extent of technology usage in health management. Although it is pandemic, it started as small outbreaks in my country especially, we called them first and second waves of COVID-19. At the beginning, positive case detection is very critical. At the onset, timely detection of positive cases was crucial.…[Read more]

With a background in both medicine and computer science, I already possess strong foundations in clinical knowledge and technical expertise, which are essential for health informatics. However, to further improve as a professional in public health or health informatics, I need to strengthen my understanding of public health statistics, public…[Read more]

I think this is a really interesting topic as Apple is known for good security measures although some major leaks from apple devices due to targeted attack. Did you find out the root cause and how they able to access Apple Pay to withdraw your money? And when did that happen as Apple usually upgrade their security over the time?
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I think that this is excellent idea. It will also be beneficial to medical persons and also to HR. As most of the payroll is based upon these duty shifts, it can be calculated efficiently. Moreover, as it can be expanded to OPD duty, referrals and linkage with other specialities will be quick and easy. It will also be beneficial to the patients too.

If I were a director or executive of a hospital, I would plan to gradually migrate the hospital’s information system to cloud computing, but with a carefully phased and secure approach. The decision would be driven by the growing need for efficiency, and modern healthcare delivery, while carefully addressing privacy, security, and operational c…[Read more]

Has your computer or a computer in your workplace ever been attacked by a cyber threat? How did it happen?
One day, one of officers from another team informed me that their development server is really slow and cannot access properly. After the investigation, we found out that ransomware is running and encrypting all the files on the server…[Read more]

If I were to build a medical app for patients and doctors, I would build a mobile app for chronic patient self-care. Chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension and heart disease require continuous disease data collection. Those data can be collected via smart watches, smart glucometers, smart pressure cuffs and smart weight scale or patient can…[Read more]

I would like to give some information about No.2. There is a software called mSupply is used to manage all commodities under public health department and also used by some NGOs in Myanmar. You can download it from here for free and try. It only needs to pay if you want to use multiple machines. They have user manual but learning curve is a little…[Read more]

Hello everyone. I am Than Htike Aung from Myanmar and you can call me Aung. My got my Bachelor degree in Medicine and Surgery, got Master degree in Computer Science. I hope this program will help me to bridge these two different disciplines together. I am currently working as a manager in an INGO and manages digital health related projects.…[Read more]

I would like to contribute about Health Information Exchange (HIE) as one example for this discussion.
Patients visit multiple clinics, hospitals, and labs throughout their life. Each facility keeps its own records, often in different formats and separate systems. This causes: