Lokachet Tanasugarn

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thank you for your thoughtful reply. You could see that IT could play an important role in several steps of outbreak investigation. This is also true for surveillance activity. So, you might be able to factor in the use of IT to your surveillance planning project as well!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Social media platform is indeed a new landscape for disease control strategy. I like the fact that you mentioned about “tackling misinformation” since we seems to have too many unreliable sources of information on social media. Any particular example from those platforms to fight back the misinformation?

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

This is an interesting angle indeed! Anyhow, do you think there is any limitation of this technology that we should be aware of for contact tracing?

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thank you for your insightful answer. From this discussion, you could see that having a surveillance system in place helps monitoring the disease situation and hopefully alert potential outbreak for early intervention. The details of each surveillance system tend to vary based on several factors as mentioned in the lecture – including the nature of that particular disease. This sort of consideration also extend to the design of each system and the system evaluation that will be covered in our subsequent weeks.

Keep up the good job!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Hi Siriluk, Thank you for your thoughtful comments on the VR experience and your creativity. Since VR is gadget-related, it is nice to know that the DIY set help you explore different perspectives on the VR usage even for those with prior exposure to VR. Additionally, your beautifully decorated Google Cupboard and your adorable feline assistant help brighten up our discussion forum 🙂

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Hi Tanaphum

That’s an impressive drop in temperature compared to your colleagues’ plots thus far. May I ask how did you manage to get your sensor into the freezer since part of the system still need to be connected to the laptop? Did you slightly leave the freezer open during that particular period?

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Hi Aung,

Thanks for sharing your VR experience. It appears that you have tried several apps and noted on the limitation from different angles of VR. One interesting observation is about your feeling of “dizziness” after using VR for a while. This symptoms could be related to a condition called “Virtual Reality Sickness” or “Cybersickness”. If you want to explore more on this, please check the week 3 supplementary reading, we will upload an extra article on this topic shortly!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Hi Pacharapol

Sorry to hear that the sensor ended up breaking. Nevertheless, you did have a chance
to experiment with the air dryer and get a nice-looking plot. As I mentioned in the lab
video, the sensor device can be somewhat fragile. We might need to put the sensor system
in a container with its own power source next time!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Hi Cing Sian Dal,

Good job noticing the baud rate! I also like your idea on how to deal with the failed
records – please go ahead with the extra experiment if you have time and keep us
posted on your solution!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Hi Aung,

Good job! Hope that these issues with finding the right port, switching the WIFI, and redeploying the web script help sharpen your debugging practice. Additionally, I wonder about the boiling pot. Did you hold the sensor on the boiling surface directly and for how long? The humidity seems to skyrocket as expected but the temperature appears to rise just a little.

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Hi Siriphak,

Thank you for sharing this article. Although this article emphasizes mainly on
the ML part, it actually reflects the needs of accurate and reliable data from
the sensor system. And since blood glucose can be interpreted differently in several contexts
(fasting/non-fasting, spot check/continuous monitoring, related comorbidities, etc.),
I guess that these information need to be transferred along with the sensor readings
as well to be used as features in the subsequent ML models.

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Hi Cing Sian Dal,

Thanks for sharing this interesting publication and nicely summarized the main takeaways.
I would like to further highlight the design aspect that was mentioned in the discussion
part as the basic design guideline for WHMS. Some key ideas to consider if you ever run into
any of these systems!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing your answer – a good compare and contrast indeed!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing your idea. The lack of techequity is very true and probably is true not only in Thailand. During the early COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign in LA, we did have to ask for volunteers to help the elderly fill in their electronic vaccination records. I think we might see more adaptation of IT services or platforms to meet this need.

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing this insight! This is an important loophole that could result in mistrust among related parties. Data privacy has become more critical than ever with the implementation of the Personal Data Privacy Act (PDPA). Hope that we will have a better and more practical safeguard against this sort of data leakage coming up in time!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing your idea and good job mentioning climate change as a factor that influences infectious diseases. This is one of the issues in planetary health that is likely to play a bigger role in these recent years!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing – good point about the lack of scientifically rigorous evidence to support the delivered messages!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for your organized observation – your answers clearly compare and contrast the communication between the two leaders!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thank you for sharing! I believe that Myanmar has its own uniqueness in diverse ethnic groups which could be utilized in favor or against any activity. Your answer did a great job of showing us the impact of the coup on the healthcare and IT system which might take years to recover.

Hope that Myanmar will soon recover from the impact of this political disturbance and relaunch its healthcare system

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing your idea. It’s interesting that your analysis goes beyond the scope of IT to the governance issues at the national level as well. This is also crucial to the overall trust and management during the pandemic. I would say that Thailand has many opportunities for development in both areas!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Good job pointing out one of the most crucial aspects of all these issues: we need to “put people at the center of technology”. Having an inclusive technological development strategy is the key to using them as our supporting and empowering tools!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing your idea. I also have the same idea in terms of having a centralized data system that is accessible from diverse platforms. At least we are starting to have more open data sources for data in the public sector of Thailand but let’s wait and see the progress of the endeavor.

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing your experience! Since the internet has been one of the infrastructures of IT systems, having well-covered and high-speed internet that could catch up with the evolving disease situation is a pre-requisite for the system to work properly. I wonder if there is any national development plan underway for this obstacle and if there is any strategy we can adopt from other countries that share similar landscape issues.

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing! I agree that most of the attention has been on viral disease in terms of the new PHEIC. It would be interesting to see how we could predict the probability of PHEIC from each potential mutated strain. Maybe, bioinformatics and statistical genetics could be able to help us with these predictions!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing your idea on the topic. I’m glad that you mentioned the interaction between LMICs and high-income countries in terms of pandemic prevention and control. As we all may already have heard – “no one is safe until everyone is safe”.

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing your answer! I agree with your thought – mutation could result in a new strain of microbe that has PHEIC potential. So, better make sure the people are adequately vaccinated!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for your systematic answer!

I’m glad that you raised the potential threat of nuclear weapons. Although the examples we had in class are infectious in origin, consequences from nuclear weapons detonation could potentially lead to PHEIC as well.

Good job – keep it up!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing your idea! I agree with your thoughts, especially on the genetic factors of microbes. With the latest COVID-19 pandemic, we have witnessed the problematic issue of disease control when we have to deal with the fast mutating organisms that render our preventive measures ineffective. I also hope that we could, someday, develop a countermeasure again such evolving threats or at least have an accurate prediction of such change in time for developing new control strategies.

Good job – keep it up!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for your insightful observation!

You have made a solid point about PHEIC being an undesirable declaration due to several factors that are mostly beyond the consideration of disease control. With the likely emergence of new zoonotic diseases, it would be interesting to see how the international threshold on the declaration will shift in response to the evolving pattern of new outbreaks.

Good job – two thumbs up!!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing your idea! It is interesting that you mentioned the user experience in relation to the timeline. I also wonder about their opinion on the initial training during the outbreak as well. On one hand, successfully carrying out the training in such a short period of time could be viewed as a success; however, there might be some loopholes that get detected from the user side due to the overtly rushed process as well.

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing your idea! I agree that assurance is needed especially if the system has been implemented for a while. Notably, it could be carried out both as an assurance and revision process for all involved parties of the system!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for your insight and discussion. I totally agree that the successful implementation of a new system in the middle of an outbreak is already made their mission an impressive one! About the data standard, some case definitions and data collection formats have been proposed by US CDC; however, the implementation could be vastly different in a challenging setting like Nigeria!

FYI:
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/clinicians/case-definition.html
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/health-departments/case-reporting.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fpoxvirus%2Fmonkeypox%2Fhealthdepts%2Fcase-reporting.html

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing your idea! Good job pointing out the assessment of technical support. We all experience technicality struggles and will need some assistance from time to time!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing your idea! Both of these attributes are important to maximize the uptake of the system – good job!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for your reply!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for your insights on this topic!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing your idea!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing this mapping technology. Geolocation is indeed an attractive feature for targeted disease control intervention!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for your insightful comments on the additional attributes.
Irrefutably, their effort in launching the SORMAS was impressive! Additional evaluation such as the consistency of the data and user/service experience that you mentioned would further refine their evaluation of this digitized system.

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for introducing us to this additional mobile IT application!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for pointing out these additional attributes.
Good job pointing out the different facets of evaluation for data quality.
I also agree that they could do further evaluation of the data apart from the completeness.
Evaluating the system from many aspects could give us more insight into the system as a whole!

Nicely done – keep it up!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for pointing out these additional attributes!
I totally agree that integration is one interesting aspect. Harmonization between two systems or data transfer between the old to the new system is almost always a time-consuming process. While doing so during an outbreak is probably not on the top of our priority list, it needs to be done at some point to free the system from the dual burden.

Nicely done – keep it up!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for pointing out these additional attributes.
Both acceptability and portability would play important roles in improving and upscaling the system!

Nice job – keep it up!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing your idea! You have mentioned many technologies that could help in the process. Of course, having a system that monitors the population is always a plus in detecting outbreaks!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing this innovative discovery! I would love to see the field testing of this technology on a large scale. This could indeed be a new screening tool and might even be applicable to other emerging respiratory diseases.

Keep up the good work!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing your idea!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing about this data linkage system. Irrefutably, having a centralized data hub that links with all related units supports more efficient patient care!

Hopefully, we will have a more centralized/cooperative data-sharing platform in our routine patient care as well!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing your idea and pointing out the differential diagnosis of the rash that needs to be confirmed by additional laboratory tests.

Keep up the good work!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Thanks for sharing your insight. It’s interesting that you mentioned natural language processing. One of the foreseeable challenges is the different language composition and slang. Nevertheless, it is definitely one of the new IT applications in the field!

Keep up the good work!

[Lokachet Tanasugarn]

Good job mapping the technology with specific tasks in an outbreak investigation!
I like the fact that you also mentioned the use of unmanned aerial vehicles and global positioning systems in the process. Those could also be applied to the work, not just the data pipeline and software!

Keep up the good work!

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