Than Htike Aung

I agree with you that without standard, there is no interoperability and affects the patient care.

I agree with you to encourage balance and limit after-hours will help to reduce burnout. Offline option should be compulsory feature in low resource settings.

I strongly agree with you for dedicated time for documentation within working hours instead of after hours will help to reduce burnout in MM.

Thanks for asking. Yes, it is used in about 40-50% of all ART sites in MM.

Thanks for asking. It is currently a national platform for National AIDS Program.

As a health information professional, we must act as professionals and consider all cases professionally regardless of whether there is a personal connection or not. In this case, we must consider as a person we don’t know even, she is my friend or she is a celebrity.

What should you do? Can you tell your friend?
I should do nothing. And also c…[Read more]

I would like to discuss the same project posted in previous topic discussion.
ADKAR Model

Awareness
Stakeholders were clearly informed of the need to move from paper-based systems to an electronic record platform. For every expansion, we also advocate management level and explain to operational level staffs why we need to change.

Desire
Program…[Read more]

The National AIDS Program (NAP) of Myanmar has successfully implemented a customized version of OpenMRS as the national platform for recording and managing all HIV patients receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART).

Key Success Factors

Data
Previous efforts to digitize ART patient management failed primarily because of difficulties in converting…[Read more]

In the implementation of OpenMRS for HIV care, we integrated a programmatic, guideline-based decision support system to assist clinicians in adhering to national treatment protocols. This feature ensures that 99.9% of treatments are aligned with national program guidelines, with the remaining less than 0.1% representing rare special cases that are…[Read more]

If hospitals do not use the ICD standard, disease classification would become inconsistent, making it difficult to share and compare data across facilities, compile national health statistics, or ensure interoperability. This would lead to ineffective data analysis, wrong diagnoses, and poor treatment or disease management. It would also hinder…[Read more]

I think this finding of “EMR is one of top leading causes of physician burnout” is country specific and I want to refer as first world’s problem. Because there are thousands of other reasons which cause physician burnout rather than EMR in developing countries.

I have heard many concerns from healthcare personnel—ranging from community health…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing. As RxBox is built from off the shelf commodities, it will save a lot of money as compared to buying similar equipment from medical device companies. As the technology is better over the time, it will become cheaper in coming years. As patient is receiving ICU level monitoring at home, customer satisfaction will be the…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing this project. This kind of projects opens new opportunities for massive screening of general population without heavy resources. This will greatly improve the health outcomes related to TB especially in our country like Myanmar. Without labour intensive screening work and rapid processing time will not only reduce the cost…[Read more]

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]