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Comparing public communication regarding the COVID-19 situation from the leaders of two countries: Singapore and the USA, based on the CREC principle is described as following

1. Be first: The Singapore leader publicly communicated the COVID-19 situation after two weeks of the event. While, the US leader communicated after the situation worsen,…[Read more]

List of the disease outbreaks that have been declared as PHEIC
-2009: The Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic
-2014: poliomyelitis
-2014: outbreak of Ebola in Western Africa
-2018–2020: Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo
-2015–2016: Zika virus epidemic
-2020: COVID-19 pandemic

These outbreaks raise concerns because they are ext…[Read more]

The application of centralized helplines for COVID-19 information in Thailand is needed to improve. During the outbreak, this central helpline shows only the information of the number of the infected rate, hospitalized rate, and death rate. Essential information on how to self-management and prevent spreading to others is lacking. For example, the…[Read more]

Using inaccurate data can lead to various problems, related to the public health policy and management system for controlling and preventing the disease. In case of data overestimation, inappropriate increasing cost and resources to deal with the actual situation are encountered. On the contrary, utilizing underestimated data lead to delay…[Read more]

IT can assist in outbreak investigation in various processes. During active case finding, CDSS may be one of the tools to help in the screening process. Applying IT in the data collection process helps to systematically and comprehensively record outbreak data. Exchangeable and timely visualized reporting data, like epidemic curves, help…[Read more]

Data visualization tools for decision support are the technology or tool that I like most. This technology is widely used during the COVID-19 pandemic by different countries and organizations. Timely and accurately collecting data are clearly visualized to the different levels of audiences, ranging from the general population to national…[Read more]

How can surveillance help to detect and control the disease?
-Surveillance helps to control the disease by detecting the confirmed case and high-risk cases along with time and place. Proper monitoring and responding to the transmission of disease by using well-planned countermeasures is one of its benefits. Suitable allocation of healthcare…[Read more]

According to the ADKAR model, changing the systems from paper-based documents to EMR in my organization is inappropriate management as following

Awareness: Lack of communication to all officers to raise awareness about the importance to change and how to change is encountered. Moreover, opinions from the members do not reach the executive…[Read more]

The collected data should not be given out to the research team due to the information privacy principle. Reviewing the informed consent of the collected data, which have permission only to this study or further study, is important. If the informed consent provides further use of the data, giving the data to another research team is acceptable. In…[Read more]

As a health informatician who encounters this scenario, I cannot tell my friend about what I have known to maintain the confidentiality of patient information. Interfering other family issues about their health problem is inappropriate. My friend may or may not already know about her partner’s disease, but she did not tell me about that. Although…[Read more]

My previous organization had implemented EMR in both outpatient and inpatient departments. But its function was not fully used in inpatient departments. In contrast, proper adaptation to the new system was accomplished in the outpatient department. The factors associated with success and failure are described following.

1. Operation
-All…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing. This project can help physicians to early detect abnormality and provide proper and timely management resulting in decreased morbidity, mortality, length of stay, and resources.

Thank you for sharing. This project is the first step to implement HIE in Thailand. Solving problems related to lack of health data exchange, like personal medical history, between the organizations is crucial to current Thailand’s healthcare situation. The next step is to recruit more public and private hospitals while maintaining data privacy…[Read more]

I have experienced some of CDSS in my organization

1.CPOE
-It is very helpful for its alert about drug interaction, drug allergy, and dosage calculation. But, there is some limitation about repeating notification in some patients who were exempted and confirmed to use medication that caused interaction, which is not serious.

2.AI in medical…[Read more]

If the hospitals do not use ICD standards, it will cause many negative effects to the healthcare system as following
1. Transferring data from hospital to hospital or hospital to public health data center will be more difficult due to the lack of the same standard data like structure or meaning, which will cause problems related to the…[Read more]

I have experienced some problems and also heard from other officers. EMR may increase workload and time for recording patient data, instead of only pay attention to the patients. But, EMR also increases data recording efficiency. Providing time to adapt when the transition from the paper-based medical record to EMR is crucial to the officers.…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing this useful application. It is suitable in Thai society, in which people don’t have enough courage to receive psychotherapy and there is social stigmatization on receiving this treatment. It keeps personal privacy and easily accesses counseling whenever and wherever you want, instead of receiving counseling at the hospital.

From my perspective, eHealth definition should be “using technology combined with relative knowledge to facilitate healthcare to be better in the way of patient and healthcare provider-centric approach “. Examples of knowledge that is used along with technology are business, health informatics, and public health. The purpose of the implementation…[Read more]