Hazem Abouelfetouh

Hi everyone, My name is Hazem. I am a pharmacist and have been working in Clinical Research for the last 6 years. I am not using statistics in my current role, however, I have a little experience in biostatistics and data analysis coming from many courses and workshops that help me to understand my studies objectives and how to describe the output.

If High Availability (HA) is implemented in HIS, It will ensure the availability of life-critical clinical systems and EHRs especially in case of emergency without impacting clinical workflows. Clinicians will have continuous access to patient data, allowing them to treat and diagnose patients without interruption.

Also, HA can reduce the impact…[Read more]

Personally, I don’t have experience with CIA issues but as a system user, I’ve worked on many information systems used to manage PHI that does not use a secured connection (HTTPS). Also, few systems failed to maintain a deliver proper confidentiality by using a weak password policy and 2FA is optional to make it easier for system users.

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.

I agree with you all, I want to add that 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.

“Big data is the future and for medicine, ICD-10 is…[Read more]

In my opinion, Before implementing a new EHR system, 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 improving UI/UX interface. Also, It…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing. As I understood, CVS was collected data from all visitors not only users having an account! I would like to add that the main reason in my opinion is the CVS omission of their responsibility to audit their vendor procedures and training to avoid such an incident.

Thank you for sharing. Besides raising user’s awareness, I agree with you that it is better to restrict the use of personal devices or any tool that can transfer unknown files to any device on the organization’s network as it is one of the main reasons for ransomware attacks.

Thank you for sharing. I agree with you that we should raise awareness and train all users on how to detect phishing attacks. I want to add that in addition to implementing the Two-factor authentication (2FA), the system should have an audit trail of all login attempts and should have the ability/tool to analyze these attempts and used IP…[Read more]

A hacker may use one of the following to hack or corrupt a system:

1- If a hacker has access to the physical server, He can cut the power or the internet cable!
2- If he knows someone has an account with high privilege, He can try to reset his password and check his mobile for OTP. Or install malware on his computer to capture all keyboard…[Read more]

I think, as we have one IT officer with no experience in servers networking and infrastructure, we have to choose a Cloud server. This will save the costs of hardware needed to establish the physical server(s) and hiring new 2-3 IT officers to run and maintain the servers 24/7.

Also nowadays there are many cloud hosting providers that comply with…[Read more]

Based on my background in Clinical Research and IT, Developing a health informatics system requires strong project management skills besides the essential knowledge in many areas to work and achieve positive communication with multidisciplinary team members.

For me, I am looking to strengthen my skills in statistics and data analysis. Also to…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

My name is Hazem Abouelfetouh, I’m a pharmacist from Egypt. graduated in 2012. I have been working in Clinical Research for the last 6 years. During this period I was involved in Pharmacovigilance, and Clinical data management in addition to my main role as a Clinical Research Associate. Also, I have 14+ years of experience in s…[Read more]