Panyada Cholsakhon

What happened?
I personally rarely experience events related to the CIA principles of the information system in my workplace. However, I remember a situation back in mid-2021 when I received a notification from my head nurse that the organization’s email accounts had been hacked. She received a list of hacked email accounts from the hospital…[Read more]

Strength: I think my strengths in EQ are self-management and self-awareness. Personally, I am quite flexible and calm. It’s rare for me to explode at other people when I’m angry because I usually think before expressing negative feelings. I always care about how my emotions might affect others, whether it’ll make them sad or bring them down.…[Read more]

Thanks for your comments!!! There might me some technical problems that the VDO didn’t appear. Your suggestions are very helpful for my future improvement. Social media like you said is one of the easiest way for people to reach the important information that might need to be added in the data dissemination. Thank you very much!!:)

Thank you for sharing the Vibrio Cholera disease surveillance system, Phyo. It’s very interesting. First of all, I like how you go with the flow of your presentation, which is quite complete and easy to follow. Cholera is one of the many communicable diseases that, even though there are very rare cases reported in my country, it needs attention…[Read more]

Thank you for your amazing presentation, Myat!. MDR-TB is a very interesting disease that needs attention. In Thailand, we also has a program, the National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTP), to monitor and develop strategies for controlling the disease. From your presentation, you have added my knowledge about the involvement of NGOs like MSF.…[Read more]

I think the Hong Kong president’s speech adhered to the majority of CERC principles. Overall, he demonstrated significant empathy (Be Empathy), a crucial element in effective crisis communication to the public. His actions and words conveyed a genuine sense of care and concern, fostering trust and making it easier for people to follow his i…[Read more]

In my opinion, based on the five main themes discussed in the article, Thailand needs to embrace technology and transformation to effectively address future outbreaks.

Technology: Adopting technology to enhance healthcare during outbreaks is essential, as it can streamline and facilitate every aspect of the response. For instance, advanced…[Read more]

Could you list the disease outbreaks that have been declared as the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)?
– H1H1 (Swine flu) in 2009
– Polio in 2014
– Ebola in 2014
– ZiKa in 2016
– COVID-19 in 2020
– Monkey Pox in 2022

Why do these outbreaks raise such concerns?
These outbreaks raise significant concerns for several reasons.…[Read more]

Implementing electronic information management systems (EIMS) into the existing system will benefits to the Tanzanian ILI sentinel surveillance system in many ways. I would like to share the other two indicators that may changes after this integration.
– Usability: System quality indicators in usability is essential when implementing an…[Read more]

Information technology is crucial at every stages of outbreak investigation, as described below.

Verification and preparation: To verify diagnosis and confirm outbreak, adopting IT such as EMRs used in data collection offers the data quality and it is more comfortable and support timely investigation. For field work preparation, IT can help with…[Read more]

From the article: Digital technologies in the public-health response to COVID-19. (2020)
The application of digital technologies that enhance COVID-19 Surveillance and response that I prefer is “Contact tracing app”. It is a digital tools that designed for helping identify and notify people who might have been exposed to COVID-19 via mobile app…[Read more]

1. How can surveillance help to detect and control the disease?
If there is a monkeypox outbreak, surveillance will help detect the disease by tracking the number of reported cases and monitoring the disease’s trend. For instance, if patients exhibit suspected monkeypox symptoms such as fever, headache, and swollen lymphnodes in the first few…[Read more]

Should you give the data out? 
If I were in charge of data collection in this situation, I would provide the information only after obtaining informed consent from individuals whose data is being used.

How do you not violate any of the General Principles of Informatics Ethics.
To ensure compliance with the General Principles of Informatics…[Read more]

If I am a health information professional in this situation:

What should I do?
It’s really challenging to maintain both professional and personal relationship. In this case, I have to prioritise my professional duty. I will not disclose any of my patient’s sensitive information to anyone even she is my best friend, unless I have his consent…[Read more]

From my previous discussion regarding the implementation of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) causing staff to feel burdened, it’s apparent that the organisation may encounter obstacles throughout this development, especially with people’s perceptions. However, I can relate the effort they have invested in the project, and we, as staff, are…[Read more]

In my organisation, we currently use an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system. While this system was implemented many years, it has undeniably been helpful in organising vast amounts of patient information. However, based on my experience and my colleagues, we have encountered various issues that have left not likely satisfied as users. We hope…[Read more]

An example of Decision Support System used in your organization:
As I worked in IPD and performed many times in the blood transfusion process for my patients. One of the Decision Support Systems (DSS) that is important and helps prevent potential errors in this process is the alert messages within the process of matching blood bags with patient.…[Read more]

Thanks for very good discussion. I totally agree with the users generation as it is one of the main factors influencing any technology adoption in the organisation. Also outsourced EMRs is interesting and it’s quite good as I have heard about it (my organization is self-created but planning for adopt the outsourced one in the future which is…[Read more]

If many hospitals have adopted ICD standard to classify disease while some hospitals do not use this standard, there are several potential issues that might happen such as: Data sharing challanges: no standard means that each hospital cannot talk to each other because different hospital have incompatible coding system. So when each hospital are…[Read more]