Than Htike Aung

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: