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A good project in the problem that we face every year and the problem of PM2.5 will be returned again in the upcoming months. The platform can integrate problems and issues relevant with PM2.5. It brings the information to our mobile phone, which supports health in our hands. Furthermore, if we can make the information to use as a pollution…[Read more]

Great idea. The idea of BreathSuite” can be applied on other medication to track the patient’s compliance, for example, to monitor the compliance of taking anti-tuberculosis drugs, antiretroviral therapy (for HIV).

Apart from the compliance, another major problem in COPD treatment is most of medication need patient’s cooperation. The inhaled…[Read more]

In my organization, one of the complex clinical decision support system is alert system for potential drug interaction prescribed to the patient. The system needs lots of information about adverse effects of each drugs, integrates and analyses them. The output must be a meaningful alert that warns physicians about drug interaction among their…[Read more]

What will happen if we do not use ICD?
1. Some diseases have several names with the same meaning, for instance, common cold or acute nasopharyngitis. Without ICD, there will be numerous names with the same disease which cause difficult to group them.
2. Data surveillance or other epidemiologic studies would be done with difficulty.
3. Insurance…[Read more]

According to the provided article, the electronic health record (EHR) is the second most common cause of physician burnout. Although there are many factors contributing to physician burnout, the EHR remains one of the factors. I would like to summarize the consequence of EHR implementation leading to physician burnout into 3 issues.

1. EHR makes…[Read more]

In my opinion, eHealth has very board definition. The definition of eHealth should cover all 3 domains.
1. Health in our hands: Every people, not only medical personnel, can generate and access to information. Health covers wide range of wellness, not focusing on when people get sick.
2. Interacting for health: Technologies can make the…[Read more]

I would like to mention about 10Vs of Big Data characteristics:
1. Volume
2. Velocity
3. Variety
4. Variability
5. Veracity
6. Validity
7. Vulnerability
8. Volatility
9. Visualization
10. Value

My example of Big Data is about information in intensive care unit.
1. “Volume” There is a lot of data generating in the ICU, for example, heart rate,…[Read more]

I would like to introduce one of the big changes in my hospital during my first year internal medicine residency training. It was about implementation of the electronic health records (EHR) in clinical use. Combination of the EHRs with laboratory information system (LIS) and radiology information system (RIS), that had been previously implemented,…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing such interesting story.

This is the risk of using cloud-based system that we have to send the data to store on the cloud server. If the organization has enough budget and personnel, try to get infrastructure-based system is another method to control the information.

Thank you.

Thank you for sharing this interesting story.

I agree with you that the main cause of this issue should be HIPAA violation and human error. In addition to reviewing the e-mail before one send it, the third-party service company can implement the software that automatically retrieves individual data and writes the e-mail like the e-mail containing…[Read more]

Thank you for your interesting issue regarding phishing e-mail.

In addition to training employees to be highly suspicious before click on the link in e-mail, development of sophisticated e-mail software to detect the unknown sender is another possible method. For example, g-mail can detect some strange e-mail and put it in junk box. This will put…[Read more]

Why would you choose cloud server, rather than physical server?
Under current hospital situation which there is only one information technology man who is busy with fixing hospital computer, the cloud-based application is suitable for the hospital. Moreover, cloud-based server does not need investing on further infrastructure, such as server,…[Read more]

There are many ways to hack the information system.
– Remember username and password while an authorized user log in the system
– Send some spyware or key logger to get log in information while the authorized user type the username and password
– Create phishing e-mail or screen that mimics the official screen and defraud the authorized user to…[Read more]

Since Covid-19 pandemic in Thailand from the early 2020, there have been many applications, platforms, and information systems developed to facilitate the government to make some policy. Such information systems includes Thai-Chana, Mor-Prompt, and information from hospitals that patients visiting for their Covid-19 infection.

The previously…[Read more]

To be the public informatician, I need to be familiar with knowledge and skill in many multi-discipline. Because I have learned about medicine, followings are other knowledge and skills I would like to gain.

1. Epidemiology and preventive medicine. Since I have learned deeply in my subspecialty, I need to catch up with current knowledge and…[Read more]

If I were the director of a hospital, I may move the information system of my hospital to the cloud system. The biggest barrier to move the system to the cloud is the concern about privacy of our patients that information about their illness would not leak to unauthorized users. Therefore, if I were asked to move the hospital to cloud-base system,…[Read more]

First, I will not click on the button provided by the pop-up because that pop-up may be a treat created by malicious people. Together, I will close that browser to stop connecting to that server. Then, I will use my antivirus that has been installed in my computer and up-to-date to check whether my computer is infected by those viruses or not.

To…[Read more]