Myo Thiha

Could you list the disease outbreaks that have been declared as the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)?

The disease outbreaks that have been declared as the Public Health Emergency of International Concern are the H1N1 Pandemic in 2009, polio in 2014, Ebola outbreak in 2014, Zika Virus in 2015 and 2026, Kivu Ebola epidemic…[Read more]

1) Which single design limitation most threatens valid estimates of sensitivity and representativeness? How would you address it within six weeks?

In my opinion, the single design limitation most threatens valid estimates of sensitivity and representativeness would be personal bias of routine immunization (RI) providers who reported to the next…[Read more]

Establish the existence of an outbreak: The surveillance system and dashboard can monitor the real-time disease trends, detect abnormal case increases and promote early detection.

Verify the diagnosis: Laboratory Management Information System enables rapid sharing of investigation results among public health professionals.

Prepare for field…[Read more]

One digital technology from the article that I find particularly interesting is web-based epidemic intelligence tools and online syndromic surveillance driven by machine learning.

How it works: These tools collect data from many digital sources and conduct pre-processing and filtering. Machine learning is used to detect signals in this data by…[Read more]

1. How can surveillance help to detect and control the disease?
For dengue, surveillance helps to detect and control the disease in terms of early outbreak detection by monitoring the disease patterns, highlighting outbreak areas, and enhancing resource allocation. This surveillance enables responding to the outbreak early and controlling the…[Read more]

Should you give the data out?
No, I cannot share individual information without ethical approval, legal permission, and data sharing agreements to maintain privacy and confidentiality. If the purpose is good, I still must protect personal data.

How do you not violate any of the General Principles of Informatics Ethics?
I will follow all general…[Read more]

What should you do?
I will keep the patient’s medical information secure and private.

As a health information professional – can you tell your friend?
No, I cannot tell my friend. Revealing a patient’s health information to anyone constitutes a serious breach of confidentiality, a violation of professional ethics, and a breach of data pro…[Read more]

I have experience implementing Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems to replace paper-based patient records. This system implementation can be considered a successful initiative that significantly improved data and information management and workflow efficiency. In my opinion, the organization appropriately managed the change in terms of…[Read more]

I have experience implementing Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems to replace paper-based patient records.
The system is successful, but some modifications and challenges remain.

Data: Patient data are more complete, validated, and easier to access; however, data migration for old patients and real-time data entry pose challenges due to…[Read more]

In my experience, I have not worked with a Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) except for paper-based clinical guidelines. But we are planning to integrate the CDSS for the existing EMR that I mentioned in the previous topic discussion. But I think several factors that might influence the CDSS implementation:

1. User acceptance: Healthcare…[Read more]

If the hospitals in the country do not use the ICD standard, several challenges and negative consequences would be faced. They lack standardization, have poor communication between health facilities, difficulties in public health reporting, and barriers to global collaboration.

My opinion about the findings

The study highlights six main causes of EHR-related physician burnout: EHRs’ documentation and related tasks, EHRs’ poor design, excessive workload, overtime, inbox alerts, and alert fatigue. These problems are well-known in practice, but they can vary depending on the features of the application. These burnouts have…[Read more]

In my opinion, eHealth is the use of modern information and communication technologies to meet the needs of citizens, patients, healthcare professionals, and policymakers.

In my opinion, telecom data is one of the big data because it includes a massive dataset from millions of users, such as call records, billing history, location data, mobile data usage, etc. The characteristics are as follows:

Volume: A massive amount of data is generated daily by millions of users.
Velocity: The data is produced and processed in…[Read more]

Thank you for the interesting case study. This case highlights how a single human error can lead to massive losses.

Thank you for the interesting case study. My key learning point from this case study is that healthcare organizations must proactively secure their IT systems, monitor for unusual activity, and address system vulnerabilities to protect patient data. This case also highlights the importance of cybersecurity monitoring, robust access controls, and…[Read more]

Thank you for the interesting case study. I found a lot of consequences. I learned that robust cybersecurity measures, continuous monitoring, and strong vendor security management are essential to protect sensitive health care data and minimize the impact of ransomware attacks through your preventive measures.

Thank you for sharing, Mio. I need to learn about that.

Thanks for your discussion, Ako.