Kaung Khant Tin

That’s a very good answer, friend. Anyway, for the second answer, I think if you choose PaaS, you would need more than one IT officer to run the web—based application for creating application software and its time to time maintenance and support.

1.The reasons I choose cloud server over physical server are
a. As there is only one IT officer at the hospital and his working schedule is tight with fixing computers, if I choose physical server for the web-based application, I would definitely need more human resources.
b. Secondly, as the patients will make doctor appointment online, the…[Read more]

As the information technology invades the health sector to a deeper level, then the health sector holds a large volume of data. And amid the high-volume load of data, the professionals in health sector are demanded to make a better timely informed decision process. And the dashboard visualization method lets the health professionals to use the…[Read more]

As a monitoring and evaluation officer, I have to go RDQA (Routine Data Quality Assurance) visit to the service delivery sites on a quarterly basis. At such times, I use Excel Workbook for the RDQA format. And instead, I would like to build an app for RDQA for a more feasible structure. In doing so, I would like to use a web app for that software.…[Read more]

That’s truly a potential threat to the computer and data. And I’ve already experienced similar attacks. When I face this attack, as an instant response t I will not click the “Clean” button. Then I will close the web windows and refresh my computer. For a long-term approach, I will use the most reliable web browser, and keep that browser up to d…[Read more]

I’ve that experience a lot of times.
-It usually comes from the Memory Stick or Hard Disk through USB.
-The virus hides the actual files and created shortcuts of those files. Sometime, it deletes the files.
-To prevent this issue, I’ve now installed anti-virus software and scanned on a weekly basis, and update when necessary. And I keep one per…[Read more]

Dear Ornpicha Thiampol, that’s really a good discussion. I like the way you link the lack of interoperability and clinical mismanagement to the patient. This is the main point as it directly involves the life of human beings.

Dear Saravalee Suphakam , categorizing the people to involve into two groups is a very good start. And including government official in the process is also bright. And I think government official are much more than giving suggestion in relational legal part. They can also take a vital role in designing and conceptualization of the enterprise…[Read more]

Dear Ornpicha Thiampol, that’s really a good discussion. I like the way you link the lack of interoperability and clinical mismanagement to the patient.
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Designing an enterprise architecture of the health information system among different hospitals would be challenging. And the design will differ according to the type of the hospital in the province whether it is a private or government hospital or a mixture of these two types. Anyway, the persons who should involve in the designing process are…[Read more]

Of course, having no enterprise architecture plan for the overall health information system will surely bring negative impacts on the health information system. Regarding private hospital reporting, as the private hospitals run their own health information system, they will definitely see problems at the time of reporting to the central level – w…[Read more]

Dear Rawinan, The combination of epidemiology and public health informatics would surely be a great thing. After this program, I believe you will be giving valuable support to disease prevention and control like the Covid-19 outbreak.

After I’ve finished my medical degree, I joined a public health organization to work as a Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning Officer. And now, it’s been a year, and I’ve got a lot of valuable experiences. Anyway, there are so many things that I still need to learn to stand firmly as a public health informatician. I need to learn…[Read more]

I would like to create an application for the Web app by choosing Python language. I choose Web and Python for the following reasons.

Reasons for choosing Web app over the mobile app
• No need to install the app
• Run on the various kinds of devices (Mobile Phones, Computers, Android, Apple, Mac, Window, Linux, Mac)

Reasons for choosing Pyt…[Read more]

As I am working as a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer at my organization, I have experience with all of them. Before I explain in detail, let me describe a short overview of the project I am working in. It is an Integrated HIV Care Project in which the medical officers (MOs) from the organization give treatment and care to the people living…[Read more]

In my country, the main and general purpose of using internet technology in healthcare and medicine is to transfer medical data from one to another. Depending on the type of medical data, data sender, and recipient, the uses vary.

For example, in this Covid-19 period, the Ministry of Health and Sports(MOHS) of my country Myanmar mainly uses the…[Read more]

PAN, LAN, MAN, and WAN, they all can take a part in this scenario. Anyway, in my opinion, the combination of the PAN and WAN networks would be the comprehensive one for this particular scenario. In detail, for the blood pressure data collection, I would use Excel Worksheet or Epi Data Form or Kobo Collect. Then before I send them to the computer…[Read more]

Hello Ravinan, I’ve experienced the same issue that you faced regarding data transformation from paper form to electronic form. The data transformation usually took a lot of work and time. And sometimes, it made the hospital routine process delayed. And I think one of the possible ways that might address this issue is to hire a group of data e…[Read more]

I worked as a Clinical Manager at the local private hospital a year ago. In that hospital, the paper-based information system was practiced where the medical data of the patients were recorded and stored in the paper. (Please note that most of the private hospitals and special clinics in Myanmar use the paper-based medical record system.) Though…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

I am Kaung Khant Tin from Myanmar. Anyway, you can call me “John”.

I finished my M.B.,B.S (Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery) from University of Medicine, Mandalay. As of now, I am working as a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning Officer at The Union Myanmar, Office. As the name goes, my work mostly…[Read more]