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How we can cope with big health data challenges?
1. Missing data
IT officers should cooperate with the health care officer to well and properly organized design the EMR supporting the collection of health data and preventing missing data. Also, increasing awareness in registering data in health care officer is an important milestone. If the…[Read more]

Health literacy is the cornerstone for health system improvement. The general population in Thailand lacks important health knowledge to care for themselves. For example, people used to think that all minor Illnesses (e.g., common cold, diarrhea, and wound) must seek healthcare professionals’ attention. Therefore, the financial cost and workload…[Read more]

In my setting as the 60-bed community hospital, EMR is the only system be available for 24 hours. In contrast, the working hours of PACS and electronic laboratory systems are nearly 16 hours per day. So, these are the leading factors to consider which disaster recovery plan to be used. The best suitable disaster recovery plan for my hospital is…[Read more]

High Availablity technology should be decided to implement in HIS. Not only health care providers but also patients can have many benefits from HA implementation. Health care providers’ works are easier, faster and less erroneous due to system support from HA in HIS. So, they can use EMR whenever they want to review medical history, drug allergy,…[Read more]

The situation which I encounter about unable to protect the information in my hospital is the confidentiality problem. Ransomware attacked one of the computers but main server. A hacker cannot take any identifiable information because the affected computer does not contain any identifiable information. Consequently, it didn’t affect anyone and…[Read more]