Pyae Phyo Aung

I rarely use twitter. It really is a Big Data like any other social media. Twitter usage statistics is awesome.

Health Information (from OpenMRS) in different State and Region of our country can be considered as ‘Big Data’ .

1. Volume – every day, patients record are increasing from new patients records and follow up records.
2. Velocity – Individual patients data are recording continuously in real-time or retrospective records.
3. Variety – Inf…[Read more]

Hi, I don’t have any experience on wearable medical-alerts devices. But sound good. Hope I can learn some experience form you about the devices.

User friendliness is a very challenging part in implementing the project which might lead to project failure.
Most of the IT are struggling the database maintenance, software bugs and other feature and spend a little time to design for user friendly. Which may be due to insufficient IT staffs and funding.

Have you ever observed a health informatics project in your (other) organization? Please provide a brief introduction.
Yes, I have been observing health informatics projects in our organization. Those projects are OpenMRS(Open Medical Record System), LIMS (Lab information management system) and GeneAlert.
OpenMRS is for HIV,TB and Hepatitis C…[Read more]

Make a better security system and firewall to safeguard the database.
Use authentication method to log-in which help minimizing the rick of attack.
Make an offline back-up for contingency plan.

Regular awareness raising of employees about the cyber safety and security.
Notice the preventive methods of cyber attack and ransomeware attack such as phishing alert, regular update anti virus software, window update, do not visit pirate sites and/or download & install pirated software.

The organization policy and regulations about privacy is important but compliance is also important. Even there are strong policy, without compliance (employees does not follow the regulations) there are risks of data breach.

Software testing is important before release to the users.
Make regular maintenance. Do everything in life cycle of software development (Planning,Ayalysis,Design,Implementation,Testing & Integration, Maintenance).
If the developers skip one of those step, there may be some bugs or error in software and configuration of database.

High level security of mail server. Use two factor authentication for every login. Do not click “save password or remember me” in any login attempt. Make suspicious to every mail and read carefully. If the mail is luring or forcing you to fill a form/ request something, contact the IT admin before doing so.

Ensure every employee know and sign the Code of Conduct of Hospital.
Make confidentiality policy, multimedia policy. Restrict who can authorize the permission for recording picture, video, sometime recording will be needed for academic purposes.
Get consent from patients. Writing consent is the best which will save from violation of regulation.

To protect from ransomware attack:
-Do not let unknown devices(removable devices) insert into your PC that can be a source of infection.
-Do not try do download pirated software.
-Enable auto-update for Window cumulative update and virus definition.
-Filter spam mail.
-Configure firewall protection well.

There are ways to protect phishing attacks.
-Important things is security awareness of employee. Provide regular training.
-If you had an IT department or IT technician, request to filter email from other domains. Make sure every mail is encrypted (end to end encryption).
-Install extra security add-on (phish Alert) on your email application or…[Read more]

In current situation , they would rather choose two PC over SaaS. I mean in Myanmar. Most of the decision makers are IT naive and hard to convince and there is few people who can make them understand.

Most of us choose cloud server and SaaS. We can choose private server for data security. There is one problem in our country that we are not allowed to store data (individual/identifiable patient records) in a database/server which located outside of our country. Is there any such issue in your experience.

1. Reason to choose cloud server over physical server is cost saving.
We don’t have to worry about infrastructure, network, storage and maintenance. Initial cost for installation of physical is very expensive but cloud server is scalable and coast saving , affective as it can subscribe as pay per uses or per users. To maintain a physical server w…[Read more]

To include all person in developing EA is a good option. But in my experience, basic health staffs lack the IT knowledge especially in computer literacy and they don’t know what feature do they want and they can’t cope and use features that provided currently.

Hi Tullaya.sita, agreed that lack of enterprise architecture makes difficulty. But I think we are getting late to develop EA, and redesign all EMR. I think we should consider alternative option like. Standardize the data structure and concepts of existing EMR and design the EA after that, which might save money and time. That my own idea, I…[Read more]

Hi Mvidhyagorn, My program is funded by INGO, supporting technical assistance to government program. And agreed that we should learn about digital law form ARRA

Hi OHN, strongly agreed with you, we can’t do everything on our own and alone. Everything in informatics is about team work between all professions (medical, IT)