Hteik Htar Tin

Policies on production and health workforce: The medical and paramedical schools are fewer in Myanmar compared to other countries. According to Myanmar National Health policy and plan, the production of qualified medical professionals has implemented increasingly in recent years. But student selection, qualified teaching staff and infrastructures…[Read more]

I agree with you Khaing. Not only shortage of medical professionals but also technical and infrastructure supports/supplies are very much inadequate for professionals to run workload burden.

Good points of using EMR
1. Real time data reporting:
Data mining and data analysis are faster compared to paper-based records and reduced typing errors due to data validation methods. Decision maker can be reported about the real time situation at clinics such as outbreak or surveillance of diseases without waiting several steps to be confirmed…[Read more]

1. Missing data
The reasons are due to omitted by clinicians, refused by patients, not attending for data collection. Statistical methods have limitations for analyzing missing data and make it difficult to produce plausible results.
Suggestions: data collection protocol should be standardized for the system, not be subjective by clinicians or…[Read more]

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One confidence interval includes null value but its range is narrow (e.g -5 to 10)
Another confidence interval has no nul but the range is wide (e.g 5 to 40).
If the above two confidence intervals are resulted from the analysis, we should not accept that the first CI without null value is more precise. Because its CI is wider…[Read more]

For the first recommended point, it must be initiated to fight corruption in the health system. Advocating among healthcare workers is an essential and pragmatic starting point for addressing corruption within health systems. Not only manger level but also basic level staff must aware about this to prevent relapse and redo of corruptive behavior…[Read more]

In recent years, the Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) service provision improvement in Myanmar is one of the improvement of health system targeting in reduction social barriers about SRH and make behavioral changes among the communities. As Myanmar is one of the developing countries, only governmental system is not enough to provide health…[Read more]

I am working as a Health Technical Manager for QI Department of ECBHO and lead the M&E Team of my organization. The most works related to statistics are data collection, data checking and descriptive analysis for data reporting.
I have learned basis biostatistics knowledge and analysis using SPSS for academic purpose of research paper writing but…[Read more]

In planning phase,
1.Disaster/Risk identification and analysis procedure will be run as first step. Risk register will be opened to record the probable risks (both external and internal) and will be share on drive.
2.Notification and communication procedure will be developed for mitigation and response activities. Data backup (google drive and…[Read more]

The most significant health challenge is emerging and re-emerging of infectious diseases. Due to fast communication around the world, the infections are more likelito spread and imported from many gates.
Concurrenly with infectious diseases burden, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is also warning sign for all healthcare professionals.
A few…[Read more]

For patients,
– Can monitor the patient’s health in real time matter
– Diagnosis and investigation procedures take less time to prescribe and record
– Mobilize the community partnership through the system
– Link and provide care to patient even in hard-to-reach situation

For hospital,
– Inform, educate and empower the staff using the HIS
– Can h…[Read more]

You are so brilliant to make change for your profession, Jen!

Our organization is working with many partners in different projects. So, the donor requirements are different for seperate ones, we have to give the data with their pre-determined formats/databases/reports and it took time and increase workload on staff. The requested variables are also multiple and not identical ones, it confuse the staff in…[Read more]

Yes, we are working with partner organization and share the same platform to use data checking and reporting. We practice authorized access to the platform but the system maintenance is not regularly updated and some functions have to be put manually. So, if I need urgent data reporting, the system cannot give the updated one immediately. There is…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing the case, Sayama Nang Phyoe. Due to those attack, some are reluctant to use the electronic system. From this case scenario, we can learn the prevention methods to advocate them.

To be an effective communication, both the sender and receiver must have a clear understanding of the message being exchanged. To ensure this, I believe that we need to practice two-way communication, where feedbacks are continuously exchanged between parties.
To practice two-way communications, the participants should be approachable, humble and…[Read more]

Yeah, I did not think about publication at first, Saya. Your comment englightens me to consider academic progress from my project. Thanks!

Thanks for your feedback, Sayama Nang Phyoe. I have to follow our organization’s data sharing policy among different stakeholders.

Thank you for your feedback, ama Wah.
When there is internet issue, I am considering offline SMS message or phone call reports. The focal will fill the forms for further reporting process.

Thanks for your comment, Saya. I will redesign it into comprehensive one.