Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

If there is not yet full paper available for the second one, it is hard to choose. But for now, I can tell that for the first one, you might be able to learn a lot about GIS (compared to some other papers I have seen).

– Quite new, about five years
– Time series
– Spatial mapping
– High impact disease

– SubjectID can be backtracked to confirm site of working; also included are date of visit and date of informed consent
– Exact date of birth and initials should probably be avoid, as it can potentially identify the person. I would rather reduce to Month and Year, or Year only, just to be safe.
– Onset date in General Medical History is picky, and…[Read more]

A direct and clear advantage, is that when that research is picked from the shelf, it can be correctly interpreted. Meta-analysis can be easier.

In the meantime, before the research is done, it can mean that it can be computerized and OCR’d, and data sharing can be easier to be done in real time.

I have seen a study of a pharmaceutical that we have to sign who is interpreting the questionnaire, but the use simply Excel.

Still, in many parts, it is excruciating and error-prone. If SPSS is to be used it might be safer. A relational database isn’t used yet.

Race should have some checkboxes, or a guide on how to write.

In my experience of data collection, I have little experience of research, but the data collection system has to be well designed. However, I truly missed one facet, what if the data is reused…

I can tell little from the point of view of software development and utilizing data. When a long time has passed, maybe months, I tend to forget how the…[Read more]

I was indirectly involved in data extraction from questionnaires of my parent’s work (of a pharmaceutical company).

– It might be impossible with design the questionnaire without marketing research.
– Other checkboxes, and fill in the blank might the choice, but the answers vary; and it is prone to subjectiveness of what is similar and not.
-…[Read more]

I think we should find and train more people who could create values in Health Informatics, leading a project, and creating a health product. Only then can we count competent personnel in Health Informatics.

Distribution is equally important as well, just like in PMAC clip about UHC, where a smart local people works devotedly to help their…[Read more]

Of course, not just sharing, but also letting the public knows that the data exists. Perhaps via a website. Just like open data sources to Machine Learning (ML)

But before that I have a lot to discuss with perhaps a lawyer??? There is always a possibility of rights breaching… Even after the consent is given, we have to consider if one wants to…[Read more]

UHC is a too-good-to-be-true project, that may be challenging to implement in some countries. I think I relies on socialism, rather than capitalism; so it depends on how socialistic the government is.

Hard to say about the state of US government, but it does depend on state’s infrastructure.

Although the success also depends on lack of…[Read more]

I don’t know much about Net Pracharat, but I can say that it is in a good direction, albeit similar to most infrastructure laying — prone to corruption, while looking beautiful only on the surface.

Government is often not good at managing high quality products, and it becomes better when manage by private sectors. That’s why Internet Speed isn’t…[Read more]

Apparently, better EMR does require User Experience analysis, and it is not always intuitive, yet does not provide much useful data; that is, futility and burdensome.

So, I conclude that EMR vs paper-based have the following

– Advantages
– Querying through the data
– Easy to read
– Disadvantages
– Not always intuitive
– Cost of…[Read more]

Missing Data
– We need to learn and educate on what can Big Data do, and cannot; instead of either relying on wild assumptions or mindlessly collecting everything. Good education will help health personnel cooperate.

Selection Bias
– Trends toward higher quality Big Data will help mitigate this.

Data Analysis and Training
– This is the real…[Read more]

A clear health care improvement is PACS, an X-ray imaging system. As you can retrieve as X-ray you want anytime and anywhere, the treatment is getting quicker.

Of course, there is currently still a problem connecting between hospitals.

There should be more attempt to scan / OCR’d hospital document. In-patient visit’s document is done at my older…[Read more]

As my current organization is a small hospital, it would be best to backup data incrementally or differentially to central and probably multiple locations.

Full backup from time-to-time might be nice, but it isn’t very cost-effective.

Reliability, especially in emergency times, might can be at night or mass incident; where there are can be a lack of personnel or having high loads.

The problem is, will it be made a priority for smaller hospitals.

In my hospital, both the username and password are guessable. Username follows ordinal order at the end (/d+$/), and password is same as username by default.

I guess I can login to any doctor’s account.

I think Chinese government should approach the social media with more empathy about the possible outbreak, what is known and what action as been done up to now; rather than using too simple a message.