PREUT ASSAWAWORRARIT

To develop a disaster recovery plan for the organization’s health information system, the plan will be as following.

1. Identification and analysis of disaster risks/threats
There are many potential risks or treats from unexpected disasters that can lead to system failure. The essential functions of the hospital business include healthcare s…[Read more]

The High Availability provides several benefits to the healthcare industry. The following are examples of healthcare services that need High Availability.

Patient service
Good High Availability improves the effectiveness of patient service. Physicians need several items of information to provide diagnosis and decide the best treatment.…[Read more]

From my point of view, there are many challenges during a pandemic. Using basic knowledge and experience from the Covid-19 pandemic, I would like to forecast the future challenges by using STEEP letter.
Social factors:
– People are afraid of the pandemic, furthermore, there may be some fake news regarding the pandemic.
– In the future, there will…[Read more]

To be honest, I have never participated as an information system administrator. However, I have had experience as an electronic health record in some hospitals. There are two major problems regarding information security, namely to preserve confidentiality and to preserve availability. In the problem of preserving confidentiality, medical students…[Read more]

Your work is very useful for RSV control in the future. Nowadays, the incidence of RSV infection is really high. It can affect both children and adults and may cause serious respiratory complication which needs invasive ventilation. To reduce disease, early detection of an outbreak is a crucial strategy. I agree with your case definition that…[Read more]

Thank you for your presentation. It is useful to record the exposure to establish the future plan for Rabies eradication. In addition to your presentation, let allow me to add some idea.
1. The case fatality rate of rabies in human is 100 percent. The incidence of rabies is extremely low (I think it might be zero) in Thailand. This issue may…[Read more]

My work is about transformation of a general ward to an intensive care unit that has to be finished before July 2023. There are many things to do. Below is my Gantt chart created by Microsoft Excel.

Thank you.

Based on two VDOs of public communication between Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and President Trump regarding Covid-19 situation, there are some issues to address according to the six principles of crisis and emergency risk communication.

For Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong:
1. Be first.
I think he did very well on this topic because one of the…[Read more]

I would like to apologize about my late work.

I would like to introduce you to my leadership when I was in third year resident training. I was assigned to be the chief resident, which there were 4 residents annually assigned to be in this position for 3-month duration. The jobs were about managing admission round (the academic activity that was…[Read more]

From my point of view, Thailand has good performance to develop digital health policy and implement it to prepare for the next pandemics, However, there are some rooms of improvement. According to the provided article, Thailand still needs to improve some aspects in following themes. First of all, we need to improve some issues of our teamwork…[Read more]

The disease outbreak which is potential public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) should have at least 2 of the following criteria.
1. Serious public health impact of the event
2. Unexpected or unusual event
3. Significant risk of international spread
4. Significant risk of international travel or trade restrictions
After such…[Read more]

The Surveillance, Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS) was designed for reporting, analysis, and visualization of the outbreak. In addition to the evaluation indicators that investigators has been assessed, I would like to add some evaluation indicators for this system.

1. Responsiveness for user experience and service…[Read more]

I would like to mention about integration of information technology (IT) with outbreak investigation process according to steps of an outbreak investigation that were mentioned in the lecture.
1. Verification and preparation
In this step, we can use health information system and health information exchange to monitor the outbreak. Online case…[Read more]

I would like to introduce you to digital technology that has been implemented in some hospitals and should be generally implemented throughout Thailand. The technology of emergency calling for a emergency team, for instance, if there is a person experiencing sudden cardiac arrest.

Bystanders, the people who are close to the patient and see the…[Read more]

1. How can surveillance help to detect and control the disease?
— After surveillance program is implemented. The index cases and high-risk cases will be identified. They will be isolated or given some treatment in the hospital. After the virus is clear, they will be back to the community.

2. Should we conduct active or passive surveillance or…[Read more]

The answers for each question are provided below.

1. Should you give the data out?
– No, I cannot give the raw data out to the third party.

2. How do you not violate any of the general principles of informatics ethics
– I must respect to fundamental ethical principles, for example, principle of autonomy, principle of equality and justice,…[Read more]

In my opinion, there are two main issues in this scenario. First of all, the health information system should not allow the users, for example, health information professionals other than physicians be able to access to HIV status of the patients. This can be prevented by asking for physician authentication to open the anti-HIV result. The users…[Read more]

I would like to use the failed project that I have previously mentioned in the recent topic discussion. It is about implementation ICU request system. There are many factors leading to failure of the project. I will discuss the factors relevant to ADKAR model as following.

1. Awareness
This is the most important factor leading to failure in our…[Read more]

I would like to introduce you to the health information system which was failed. This is about the ICU request system that was developed about 5 years ago. In general, physicians contact verbally to each other by telephone or instant messages if their patients have conditions which need invasive monitoring, organ supports, or close observation.…[Read more]