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Thanks for your discussion, Saya. Yes, I think that many organization with different data sets used for the projects and programs makes the data into fragmentaiton and impact the data quality

Team: For this theme, our country needs improvement in joint planning and action among different stakeholders. Due to underreporting and difficulty in rapport building among sectors, we must put many efforts to collaborate under same goal.
For transparency and trust, as mentioned above, there is still dilemma to give health data is safe or not…[Read more]

I agree with you, Jen. This is also challenge for our country for collection the data and lack of infracstructure to manage the big data makes people’s involvement in building synchronized digital health system.

Thanks for mentioning AMR, Saya. I also agree that it is challenging issue for both clinical and public health.
Especially for LDC countries, we have policy and laws, but did not practice thoroughly and is weak in administration level.
AMR can cause many PHEIC if we still neglect this matter

Could you list the disease outbreaks that have been declared as the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)?

1. H1N1 Pandemic: The infection started from North America in April and WHO declared a pandemic in June 2009, a total of 74 countries and territories had reported laboratory confirmed infections

2. Ebola:It started in…[Read more]

Thanks for your discussion for using AEFI indicators, Ama. I have no idea to use these indicators and just focused on data completeness and timeliness.

1.) Which single design limitation most threatens valid estimates of sensitivity and representativeness? How would you address it within six weeks?
In this AEFI surveillance system, there is parallel different reporting systems to national level by single health facility. They have no interoperability, usability and used different tools for data…[Read more]

I really like your idea of adding IT analysis on social media for misinformation alert, Ama. And I see the widely use of IT in epidemiology is really effective for public health interventions and is technically reliable for the projects.

Verification and Preparation Stage, there are 3 following steps to do.
1. Establish the existence of an outbreak
2. Verify the diagnosis
3. Prepare for field work
To verify the outbreak, the field team can report the data within short time and the response team can check whether it is over alert line or not by comparing the former database. The…[Read more]

I like the data visualization tools for decision support in COVID 19 surveillance and response. In COVID 19 pandemic period, enormous big data were collected through nationwide surveillance sites. If the public health professionals cannot use the information technology for presenting the result of those data analysis, the responses for prevention…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing about digital contact tracing, Sayama Khaing. It is easier to trace the contact by traditional methods and can also give awareness to the community immediately. As you mentioned, the privacy of users may be violated if there is no security guarding measures for data sharing.

1. How can surveillance help to detect and control the disease?
Surveillance is the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health data. So, healthcare professional can timely detect the abnormal dengue cases distribution pattern through ongoing data collection and careful monitoring of its trend, it can help to respond the…[Read more]

Thanks for your insightful discussion, Ama. As the communication pattern of dengue is changing, th population-based surveillance is not practically feasible for health care workers. The community has awareness about the dengue, like you mentioned above, the community can activitely participate in case findings.

No, I should not give the data out even though the research will generate the good prevention and control benefits.
Because their request involve sensitive personal identifiable information which violate the information privacy and disposition. It is not timely condition to violate principle of openess. I will share the data with appropriate…[Read more]

As a health information professional, I must mmaintain the ethics and principles in performing my duties. I have to keep secure this data and try not to manipulate without voluntary consent of patient. This is my accountability.
I cannot tell my friend event though I am sure that she does not know this fact. It is patient’s privacy and I must give…[Read more]

As mentioned in Topic 1 discussion, our organization is starting to use web based application for data reporting.
For this initiation,
Awareness: the project team did advocacy meeting with senior management team about the sysytem and its usefulness for the project and organization’s values. After getting approval, the project team did consultation…[Read more]

Currently, our organization uses the web base application for electronic medical recording/reporting with the support of partner organization.

Data: it is more systematic and reliable by using the server. Less human error when compare to excel data entry. We can visualize the data more conevniently and analyze quickly.
Cost: Ongoing expenditure…[Read more]

In our organization, decision support system (DSS) is not fully developed yet. But I think the followings are the practices implementing as part of DSS.
As we have funding restriction, we are always tryting to priortizie the resource/medicine/trainings/IECs allocation to field teams. For this occations, we always check with HIs team for their…[Read more]

i. No standardized case definitions for the diseases among hospitals and different level of medical professionals, data reduntancy
ii. Face challenges in big data analysis for comparing of data, comprehensive management and research purposes, unable to monitor and EWAR system
iii. The above facts will impact on interoperability among institutes…[Read more]

According to the article, physicians are not familiar with EHR and related IT tasks so they feld burden on EHR’s documenntation and workload burden. As they are working for human beings especially unhealthy cohorts, they will have unconsiciously concerns on inbox alerts and feel fatigue on dealing them.
The collegues working with EHR system in my…[Read more]