Phone Suu Khaing

I work as Monitoring and Evaluation Manager for DSTB and DRTB project. My work is related to data and statistics day to day.
This course is really helpful for me to fill my capacity in statistics and thanks for it!

I am employed as Monitoring and Evaluation Manager in TB project in international non-governmental organization since October 2019. I have to generate biannual and annual report to donors and national program.
I had learnt and applied statistics when I attended Structured Operational Research and Training IniTiative course in 2017 to write a…[Read more]

Case-Fatality rate
Definition
It is proportion of death cases from a specific disease among all diagnosed cases of the disease over a certain period of time.
How to calculate
To measure this statistic, numerator is number of death cases from a specific disease whereas denominator is all diagnosed cases of this specific disease.
Main…[Read more]

The benefits of HA infrastructure for patient and hospital are as follow.
Reduction of downtime with back up for 24 hour
Cost effectiveness as there will be high performance with HA
Data security is more ensured
Continuity of server data with better service

Thank you for presentation with new learning topic to us.
1. It might be better if we could do random confirmation to tested cases with RDT only.
2. I do not have such experience and I’m learning through your paper and presentation as well as university lectures.

Thank you for the presentation!
1. Barriers for using the smartphone tracking technologies in my country may be digital literacy skills of people, proportion of smartphone users as well as concerns about privacy and security of the application for the users. Moreover, strong policy for digital technology intervention is required.
2. Smartphone…[Read more]

Thanks for the interesting topic.
1. Actually, HIS should have interoperability so that there will be traceability of patient’s information.
2. There are many uses of digital technology in Tuberculosis control such as AI in reading CXR films and Gene Xpert for fast detecting Tuberculosis gene in the sputum.

It was a very interesting topic.
For topic 1, experience based facts and facts or decisions from previous leaders influence in making decisions for planning and evaluation than data driven decision making from facility-based routinely collected data.
For topic 2, we have a culture of information use based on our project data. But as project is…[Read more]

Thank you for interesting topic.
My discussion points are as follow.
1. I agree that EA is important for healthcare industry at the very beginning.
2. With the knowledge of how EA works well for health industry, there might be more demand on EA. However, it will take time as all stakeholders must involve for the system to be successful.

It was a great presentation and it reminds me of importance of zoonotic diseases.
For discussion no. 1, animal disease surveillance system will be more difficult as there are pets, livestock as well as wild life and many more species than human race.
For discussion no.2, animal health surveillance system is really important for One Health Concept…[Read more]

It is a very interesting topic.
I had learnt much about the blockchain technology from presentation and thanks for this opportunity.
As it is new tech to us, I think change management from policy makers as well as frequent trainings to users will be required for blockchain based electronic recording and reporting to be successfully implemented.

It was an interesting presentation.
EWARS is successfully implemented because it is easy and ready to use package and it can be used for timely intervention.
Concerns in the EWARS evaluation process is that it did not mention how did they solve for language barrier.

I think we need surveillance system for antimicrobial resistance and infection control. It might cost a lot but it’s impact is really high in long run. Especially in low and middle income countries, there is no specific law on using antibiotics and there are misuse of antibiotics in treating even common flu. Non-medical person can also buy…[Read more]

In our country, non-communicable disease like hypertension is a silent killer. Moreover, there is no proper surveillance system for it. Plus, most of hypertensive patients do not take regular medication and most take traditional treatment which even contains salt. So, it will be very useful and might be life saving to have electronic recording and…[Read more]

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