Panyada Cholsakhon

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]

Of course, yes, I have personal experience at my workplace where Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) were initiated many years ago. We encountered numerous drawbacks that caused staff burnout. First and foremost, the system is still in the transformation period, despite the organization’s extensive efforts to improve it. There are several factors…[Read more]

Thanks Phyo!!!

Thanks for sharing Phyo. This project uses a simple way to gathering the data, by SMS or phone call, also I think it is amazing as it covers large area 78 districts and monitor 12 diseases.With the collaboration of the community, it can help control the outbreak in the nation level. In the future, I am sure they can develop this system to an…[Read more]

Thank you very much ka Ajarn.

Thanks Noi yay, this is incredible!!. MyChart can do many things and it is really useful. My selected eHealth project (RAMA app) has some similarlities with yours but has limited in some important parts such as it cannot access the lab results as well as our own medical records. Also it is still limited on only mobile application, did not…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing this Soe. For me I just get to know this project first time from your presentation. It’s really interesting to have it replace the paper formats which is quite difficult to do the data collection and it will affect the disease control later on. And yes I was also curious like Aj.Saranath, will it be possible for the system to…[Read more]

E-health in my opinion refers to the use of digital technology that has its primary goal of promoting health and enhancing healthcare outcome. E-health is not only involves the health care sector but also involves the small group people like families or even a person. Electronic medical record is one example of e-health, launching EMRs in the…[Read more]

Recently, an e-commerce is really popular and I think the big data is crucial in order to bring the profits to many online businesses and helps them reach their objectives. Amazon e-commerce is a good example as it is the largest e-commerce platform that uses the concept of big data which contains 5Vs: Volume, Velocity, Variety, Veracity, and…[Read more]

1. Have you ever observed a health informatics project in your (other) organization? Please provide a brief introduction.

Yes, as a nurse working in the hospital and have directly contact the service for my relative who is a cancer patient, “Cancer Anywhere” Project is really interesting and have many benefits. The Cancer Anywhere Project is a…[Read more]