Pyae Phyo Aung

People get panic in this situation because of their risk perception. People are usually more accepting of risks or feel less outrage when the risks are voluntary, under their control, have clear benefits, are naturally occurring, are generated from a trusted source, or are familiar.
If this kind of outbreak occur in our country, solidify the…[Read more]

Yes, unlike the pneumonia or influenza, dengue has the vector ‘mosquito’. It would be more difficult to prevent and control. A good early warning is still needed.

I would like to choose pneumonia for early warning system. Over two millions children died from pneumonia each year. In Myanmar, 16% of all under five mortality is due to pneumonia in 2015.
Triggered alert from early warning system will help to notify rapidly to all levels of health care providers and surveillance system. Verification of alert log…[Read more]

Air pollution is getting worse in our country, Industries and cars and burning crops emit more toxic substances and polluted to our air. In developing country, regulation and registration process for vehicles is weak and more and more cars and vehicles are imported and using that cause more pollution to air. Our country does not air pollution as…[Read more]

Data quality will be an issue for public health surveillance and legacy data are also challenges for interoperability which might cause difficulty exchanging information across multiple system.
As included in vision, exchanging high-value data, information, knowledge require time and money which might be limited to us. Important one is human…[Read more]

Information technology could be applied,
– Verification and preparation – help to collect the data of diagnosis and lab confirmation.
– Describe the outbreak – help to collect the data from active case finding after data collection and line listing. Help to analyze the data to generate hypotheses
– Hypothesis and testing – hep to develop the h…[Read more]

Consequences of inaccurate data data reported to the surveillance system. It will make bad outcome in surveillance system. It will lead to wrong decision making and unnecessary spending of national resources
If the data are overestimated, it mean the process had consume resources in every steps of outbreak investigation. It will false alarm the…[Read more]

I will choose TB disease as it need a good surveillance system and it is highly important in our country. TB is highly prevalence in our country. According to WHO data, there are more than 100000 missing cases in our country. Active surveillance system is needed to detect missing case. It will cost money but as TB is highly important to detect…[Read more]

Agreed with you. Hypertension is like silent killer. As disease nature is non communicable, community do not aware or afraid of it as much as they do for communicable like influenza.

I will pick Hypertension to discuss. As it is non communicable disease chronic disease and diagnosed at severe stage when the sign/symptom and complication, it is a disease of great thread to people life. If we missed to diagnose Hypertension at early stage, it will developed irreversible chronic disease with complications. Hypertension can only…[Read more]

In our country, HIV/AIDS had been recognized as major public health burden and estimated, in 2005, adult HIV prevalence rate was 1.3%. Since then, our country started Surveillance system for HIV control and prevention. Integrated Biological and Behavioral Surveillance Survey is major surveillance system of HIV prevention and control program.…[Read more]

OpenRMS system in our organization, mentioned in topic discussion 1, seem to be successful now. But our organization is not managing the change appropriately.
Our organization has Awareness , Knowledge and ability to change but no Desire to change or Reinforcement to change might be due to funding or leadership decision. OpenMRS has no standard…[Read more]

I should not directly give the data out. But there are other ways to provide the data to the researchers.
Not to violate the General Principles of Informatics Ethics, data should be given by authorized persons or patients.

If I want to provide the data to them, I should inform the authorized person about this condition. At the beginning of the…[Read more]

I agree with that. No matter what the condition is, an informatician must never release the information without consent.

What should you do?
I should keep the confidential information still secret.
AS a health information professional – I can not tell my friend.
I can not interfere with other people or family issue.
Yes, my friend should not about this however I can not tell my friend about this information. May be my friend know about this and she does not tell…[Read more]

In our organization, using OpenMRS, an individual patient record system used for HIV program. OpenMRS is implementing national-wide. OpenMRS for HIV program becoming successful. It took more than four year trying to customize, validate the data, train the end users and advocate them the benefit of OpenMRS. But there still problem in technical…[Read more]

Our organization don’t have specific decision support system. We put alert and reminder in our EMR.
Just alert for side effects and investigation due date. Alert system is not well function. Not much clinicians are applying those alert system. Sometime they don’t even read it. They just click ok and skip the alerts and reminders. Clinician are not…[Read more]

If hospital do not use the ICD standards, there might be pros and cons. If the country has their own standard/ well defined data sets, it will be ok not to use ICD standards. If the country does not have their own standard data sets, should use ICD standards. Without any standards, there would be difficult to collect and analysis. It will not…[Read more]

Most of the health care providers (Physicians, Nurses, Lab technician) complained about EMR that it is wasting their time. They do not satisfy the benefit of EMR comparing to their time spend. EMR is not user friendly and took more time to complete.
To avoid or reduce this problem,
We have to listen to their voice and get feedback. (Suggestion…[Read more]

What is eHealth (6)?
e-health is an emerging field in the intersection of medical informatics, public health and business, referring to health services and information delivered or enhanced through the Internet and related technologies. In a broader sense, the term characterized not only a technical development, but also a state-of-mind, a way of…[Read more]