Hazem Abouelfetouh

STEEP Factors

Social
– Increase in population awareness of infectious diseases, hygiene, and social distancing.
– Increase of elderly patients.
– Decrease social crowd gatherings.
– Change of working hours especially for hospital workers.
– Increase of population stress and fear levels.
Technological
– Increase of Telehealth usage by hospitals…[Read more]

Personally, I haven’t had any experience with CIA issues. However, I used many health information systems in hospitals that do not implement a secured connection (SSL). Also, preserving the data confidentiality the system availability was a challenge even in big institutions. A few systems failed to maintain proper confidentiality by using a w…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing.

It is important to implement surveillance systems to track the changes in the population’s Mental Health and MDD. Implementing disease control and prevention programs has a significant impact on the economy as a result of better health and increased ability to work.

By listening to the two leaders, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and President Trump we can notice a difference in applying CERC principles recommended by CDC.

1. Be First: President Trump was late in announcing the outbreak after the situation got worsened. Singapore PM announced the COVID-19 situation after two weeks of the event.
2. Be Right:…[Read more]

Hello everyone, This is an example of Gantt chart for a project to measure patient satisfaction with telemedicine.

Hello everyone,
I apologize for the delay.
I would like to share my story. As I am working in clinical research, In 2020 and due to the COVID-19 lockdown, I was appointed by my company as team leader and responsible for 5 team members and many studies where I have to try to keep the studies running without problems and ensure patients’ safety. We…[Read more]

In my opinion, We can provide the data after masking it. This includes masking the home address locations and the contact number as this may not be useful for the new study.

Also, we need to consider if the patients know about using their information in new studies and if this information was included in patients’ informed consent.

As a health information professional, It is my duty to not disclose sensitive information including lab results to anyone without the patient’s explicit informed consent. I believe it is inappropriate to interfere with other people and family issues.

Professional regulatory bodies, legislatures, and courts have recognized that in some…[Read more]

In my project example in topic 1, the Drug Stock Management System. According to ADKAR model, The awareness of the change to a better tracking system and benefits were clear for hospital staff but not for patients. Not all hospital staff had the desire to change the old paper-based system, especially those who didn’t want to use a computer and…[Read more]

In my organization we developed a new Drug Stock Management System integrated with Interactive Web Response System (IWRS) to track Investigational drugs shipments, inventories, track doses taken by patients, collect drug related adverse events and other information on patient health status with a mobile application installed on patients devise and…[Read more]

Hospitals that use the ICD to categorize patient data can drive quality improvement and have an opportunity to make a training ground for the management of big data and can provide researchers with detailed information for population management purposes. Without ICD, exchanging health data would be difficult and will cause many problems with…[Read more]

I don’t have any experience with DSS. However, I think modern EMR systems provide physicians with many alerts and reminders in the workflow in prescription, laboratory results, and writing clinical observation which is considered a part of Clinical Decision Support.

In my opinion, Before implementing a new EHR system in the real workplace setting, Clinicians should evaluate EHR and provide feedback to Health IT to evaluate the feasibility of the changes and what could be improved or customized in the User Interface.

I believe this issue will be decreased over time because many EMR providers working on…[Read more]

In my opinion, eHealth should be defined as any solution using new technologies and data exchange to efficiently improve health services with lower costs and help healthcare providers to improve patients’ lives. This includes:
– Solutions that collect patient or disease data and analyze it.
– Solutions to enable remote interactions between HCPs…[Read more]

An example of big data is online purchasing orders from websites like Amazon or online markets and collecting customer data and order history to predict products recommendation. characteristics that fit into 5Vs are:

Volume: There is a large amount of data collected from products viewed by the customer and complete/incomplete orders.
Velocity:…[Read more]

Have you ever observed a health informatics project in your (other) organization? Please provide a brief introduction.
In my previous organization, we worked on a web-based and mobile drug safety reporting tool to facilitate adverse events reporting from hospitals, patients, and doctors to pharmaceutical companies and the Ministry of Health and…[Read more]

Thank you Zarni for sharing. I would like to add that all sensitive information especially PHI should be encrypted similar to passwords in most systems. For example, The medical history, diagnosis, and treatment will be less valuable if it is not linked to a personal ID/name.

Thank you Kawin for sharing, I believe all companies should implement practical training on phishing. For example, I worked in a company where the security system was sending phishing emails from time to time to all employees to test their awareness and give them a credit if they reported the suspicious email