Auswin Rojanasumapong

I have no experience using SNOMED-CT. However, since Thailand is joining a group to use SNOMED-CT in the health system, I think I might have to learn more and prepare for the Thai health system to adopt SNOMED-CT in general practice.

Pros: Freely and easily creating a record, no need to learn how to operate or understand a language (or how to use the system)

Cons: Difficult to use for other purposes (eg research, quality improvement), no standard for recording similar signs/symptoms/diagnosis.

– The results of this study are useful for designing interventions for other diseases since the 13 challenges are found in many telehealth interventions. Designing telehealth interventions is not limited to new emerging diseases but can be adapted to current health problems and create newer services, such as non-communicable diseases Tele clinics,…[Read more]

Major concerns of teletherapy and suggestions for areas of further studies are
– Privacy and confidentiality
– Technology adoption from both providers and the patients
– Cost-effectiveness
– Dealing with acute emergency psychiatric conditions, such as acute psychotic breaks and suicidal attempts

In my opinion, the efficacy of teletherapy is “as good as” conventional in-person therapy in terms of improving depressive symptoms and attrition. However, to replace conventional methods with teletherapy there should be further studies about other aspects of the service, such as cost, and technology adoption from both providers and patients.

From what I have learned, Bayesian and Frequentist are different in perspective of the answers and methods of finding the answer. Like many examples provided, Frequentist tends to rely on current data from repeated test/action while Bayesian tends to rely on prior knowledge. From my experience, I am familiar with the way of Frequentist, but I can…[Read more]

My name is Auswin Rojanasumapong. I am a family physician in Lampang Provincial Hospital. I used to work as an instructor at the Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University. While I was in residency training and working as an instructor, research skill is a requirement so statistics is essential. Right now as a family…[Read more]

Combination of information that can identify me.
Gender: Male
Workplace: Lampang hospital
Specialty: Family Medicine
Hometown: Nakhon Sawan

Since we start with unknown reasons about why they are not using bed nets, we might start with an open-ended question of “why?”. Qualitative research might be useful to explore the reason, which might lead to a deeper understanding and broader perspective of the people that might be connected with the use of bed nets, or even their ideas about mal…[Read more]

– The newer technology should perform better (or at least as good as) than the old one.
– New features or better performance added should be worth an effort to adapt to the newer technology (for instance, if the users have to adapt to the newer system or even change the workflow for the new applications, the newer version of an application must…[Read more]

I think external variables that might influence an individual’s perceived ease of use of new technology are
– Age, because younger generation tends to learn about technology faster
– Education and electronic literacy
– Socioeconomic status
And variables that might influence an individual’s perceived usefulness are
– Education
– Social and pee…[Read more]

– Efficacy is the capacity of a given intervention under ideal or controlled conditions.

– Effectiveness is the ability of an intervention to have a meaningful effect on patients in normal clinical conditions.

– Efficiency is doing things in the most economical way.

My current job is managing Home Isolation System for stable COVID-19 patients. All four principles of biomedical ethics (autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice) must be considered, but I would like to give an example that I think is controversial in this project.

Non-maleficence is an ethical issue that is important. Since home…[Read more]

Thailand’s Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is called “30 Baht Treat All” (pay for only 0.90 USD for each hospital visit). This scheme is available for every Thai that has a national ID and not in another health scheme (social security or civil servant). The patient can make a visit to their nearest health care provider that they are regis…[Read more]

In my opinion, social activities (eg. current occupation, school) might be the confounder of the result. Young adults tend to have a more active lifestyle and spend more time with others in their society. Adjusting for social activities (current social status, such as employed/unemployed or studying/currently not in school) might be appropriate…[Read more]

In my opinion, the number of health informatics workforce is rising, but still not enough. I think the real challenges are
– Health informatics is new to the Thai health care sector. Many health care personnel does not fully understand the role and the benefits of informaticians.
– High workload of health care services in Thailand obstructs…[Read more]

Yes. I would definitely share, but doing so with the highest priority on patient confidentiality and not violating the law. Data sharing should help in research and development treatment methods, which then leads to improved global health.

Mortality Rate

Definition
A mortality rate is a measure of the frequency of occurrence of death in a defined population during a specified interval.
It is typically expressed in units of deaths per 1,000 individuals per year

Calculation

Mortality Rate = [Deaths occurring during a given time period (typically 1 year) / Size of the population…[Read more]