Than Htike Aung

eHealth is the use of information and technologies (digital tools, platforms and devices) to improve both healthcare outcomes and to promote disease prevention with increased efficiency and quality.

In my opinion, it should be short & clear like that.

I think treatment data of HIV patients who take Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) can also be considered as big data as it also fits the characteristic of 7Vs as follows:

1. Volume: Millions of patients in national ART programs with decades of clinical records, viral load tests, CD4 counts, ART drugs histories and clinic visits due to lifelong nature…[Read more]

In my organization, I led the implementation of OpenMRS HIV for Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) patients. The purpose of the project was digitalization of ART patient management including monitoring adherence and supporting national HIV program reporting.

This project improved current practices in several important ways in diseases like HIV as the…[Read more]

The generic method to prevent any kind of unauthorized access attack is to limit for only whitelisted IP addresses via Firewall and use VPN or office network for any kind of access. Although, it cannot prevent for physically compromised cases such as laptop stolen, it can prevent from most software vulnerabilities.

Although first step of phishing attack is generally reduced by cybersecurity awareness training, the main problem is lack of proper access control policy. Because of it, when the attacker got inside the company circle, it can access other resource regardless of its account’s role. Proper access control policies and strictly follow “Trust No One”…[Read more]

This kind of mistake usually happen all the time especially when migrate to a new environment or staff changes in IT department. One of the methods to prevent that kind of scenario is to use infrastructure-as-code (IaC) such as ansible. it makes the cloud environments are reproducible and consistent. Moreover, it keeps all configurations under…[Read more]

Hi Jenny, this is really good for your country having integrated system like ITIS for TB program. I just want to know does it also covers MDR-TB and XDR-TB cases. If it covers, is it also includes lab result reporting as it is critical for those cases. I think, if we have a study paper about ITIS, we can all learn, and other countries will also…[Read more]

The basic attack is non-technical methods such as social engineering (manipulating individuals into giving away confidential information), shoulder surfing (observing someone’s screen or keyboard to steal login credentials) and physical observation (collecting credentials written on a sticky note or paper or physical media).

The next one is u…[Read more]

Why would you choose cloud server, rather than physical server?
I will choose cloud server because there is no big initial investment to buy a physical server, and it operates on pay per use model which allows a lower entry barrier. Moreover, we do not need to buy a huge physical server to handle maximum workload because cloud server can scale up…[Read more]

I agree with you that hybrid approach is the most suitable option for Myanmar currently. It can get best of both worlds from cloud and local although backend implementation would be a little harder as compared to pure cloud implementation.

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?
Thanks

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]