Pyae Phyo Aung

Weight and height is enough. No need to put BMI in CRF. It can be calculated later.

The most crucial element of all research and development in clinical trials is the data.
Benefit of having data standards in clinical research is operational efficiencies in data management and analysis. Due to the development of the information technology, data management assessment and evaluation became easy with quality data. Effective…[Read more]

I had never conduct a study before but had seen other study projects. They collected the data using paper based CRF and then entered into excel spreed sheet and analysis it. I thick excel has no option or capacity for audit trial/Time stamp user. Authentication and access control is possible via physical access control. There is some validation…[Read more]

In my current experience, we are collecting HIV positive pregnancy mother data for a study, we are still in data collection and entering process.
We have created a good CRF. But weak in training and capacities building how to properly use and record the data in CRF.
The another thing is we only have one data entry person without manual check.
We…[Read more]

Yes, I’ve had that experience in the past. Sometime, volunteers did not even carried CRF with them, they just grabbed a notebook and recorded everything in it and later copied back to CRF.

Purpose of data collection is for Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV and Syphilis.
Data collection method is primary data collection. Collect the data using paper-based form. After collection with paper form data were entered into Access database for further analysis.
Problem is the missing data and inconsistent data, may be due to…[Read more]

I do not exactly know the situation of health informatics workforce in our country. But for sure there is few or no health informatician in our country. Only have health care providers and some technical support group (developers) form INGO. Challenges for developing informatic workforce are:
First one is health informatician of course who…[Read more]

The big issue we have in healthcare, unlike in other industries is healthcare privacy. There is something called “trade secrets.” One hospital competes with another, even though they are not-for-profit. But behave very much like for-profits in their competitive landscape.
Patients are ultimately the owners of their own data but who owns the agg…[Read more]

The article is about US health care system and compares to other countries’ health care system.
A 2014 study by the private American foundation The Commonwealth Fund found that although the U.S. health care system is the most expensive in the world, it ranks last on most dimensions of performance when compared with Australia, Canada, France, G…[Read more]

The problem of Net Pracharat is their transparency as mentioned coconuts news about the issues that the purpose of the project is unknown. As the Thailand’s government have the Cybersecurity Act which can monitor the internet traffic without court review, creating a massive free WiFi network could risk the citizen privacy and data unless good L…[Read more]

Good things using EMR in our setting
Data entry field level:
• High workload for both paper-based and electronic in short term will fall away when OpenMRS is up and running completely
• Assists day-to-day operation of patient consultation visit effectively
• Provides alerts and validations in order to obtain correct data
Clinician/ Pharm…[Read more]

Missing data: Data validation rules are one of the best ways to prevent data missing. E.g. Making compulsory field for data entry.
When the data becoming big, it is not easy to utilize. It needs training and technical support and tools.
In our country, we are transforming to e-Health but there are few people doing research or analysis from those…[Read more]

Health System Improvement in e-Health setting.
Currently, our ministry is using separate systems(software) for each health care setting. National program of TB, HIV, Hepatitis uses OpenMRS (Medical Record System) separately. We have to re-design the architecture for all the programs and consider upgrading a centralized server for Health…[Read more]

My organization use local area network for EMR that do not need internet. Our system only uses back up method for recovery option. There are two types of back-up. Cloud back-up from server runtime properties which automatically back-up entire database in assigned times. Second method is backing up time database manually into hard drive.
In case of…[Read more]

If the hospital implement a High Availability technology, it will provide an clinical information the right time and help healthcare provider for better decision making and right management. It will reduce unnecessary or additional cost like duplicate investigation due to system unavailability. Cost effect for patients. Not only in clinical…[Read more]

Not such things happen in my work. All the systems use local area connection. As the system don’t use or need internet there are few possibilities to lost information security. But to be able to access the software, firewall from server is turned off which might be risky for security. If the server machine is connected to internet for other p…[Read more]

Great idea to collect the nationwide data. This kind of system need in our country too. But there are no hospital that are using electronic data recording system in our country. It would be difficult to do it with paper recording system.

Great system Dr. Tullaya. As technology are growing people are more prone to sedentary life style. As Ameen comment, we should use mobile or tablet devices for data collection and question.
We could also link it to application like food data central https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/ so that data will be automatically evaluate and warning flag might appear…[Read more]

Agreed that communicating person should be a credible one or public will not accept the messages.