Pongsakorn Sadakorn

Firstly, the webinar which was about AI and ethics in health was very interesting. The case study was a useful example of AI in healthcare. Moreover, the participants have overwhelmingly ideas so they made the topic discussion smoothly.

However, this AI may not be justified by some participants for particular reasons such as privacy, unemployed…[Read more]

Thank you, there are many good suggestions!!

First, you are done a good job with your CRF design. It is a good structure and design, clear text, easy to read, and covers all of the variables.

I have some suggestions to improve your CRF. First, demographic data such as DoB, sex, rach will be moved to the visit1 screening section so your CRF will reduce redundancy. Moreover, to rid of more…[Read more]

Agree! and it should 24 hr. format.

Checkbox for site id should have 2 boxes in case the sites are more than 9 sites. Moreover, a Pregnancy test should add a “not done” box to avoid data missing.

Thank you for sharing, formats and structure are crucial in terms of making data standards. if the data use a different format or structure, it would take time to consolidate the data.

Having a data standard gives many benefits include:
– Interoperability: the standard data can be shared and analyzed between organizations.
– Drive the strategy: without the same data standard, the appropriate strategy will not practical for disease control.
– Research purpose: the standard data will drive useful research in the country.

Thank you for sharing, I think quality control is very important to ensure quality and achieve the research purpose. Excel is a basic data checking software but if the data is many records, errors will be occurred due to human errors. However, Epi-info a good software to rid of duplicate data.

I have experience with the data management process which is about conducting a national application named “TanRabad”.
1. Audit trial/Timestamp: TanRabad is software so audit trial and timestamp are always capturing when the data is changed.
2. User authentication and access control level: TanRabad has authentication and access control which is…[Read more]

Most paper-based projects will keep the data in Excel or SPSS format. Physical security is usually used to lock the data for example lock files or computer to keep its securely. This step is acceptable? because of the limitation of IT staff in the organization and they cannot handle many projects at the same times.

Thank you for sharing, in the data QC process, not only completeness but you need to check the consistency and validity which is important to maintain during study conduct.

Most projects that I have involved or conducted are surveillance or public health project which is not clinic or lab trial project so the certain step of data management work is skipped.
The step that I have done included:
1. Project Initiation
– Protocol Discussion: one of the most crucial steps that need to be done before conducting the…[Read more]

Thank you krub, conduct a national project is quite hard sometimes. However, good plans and teamwork will help through the obstacles.

As I mentioned about the limited interviewer and time, we train the interviewer in specific questions but we don’t train the technique for an interview to gather the information. Moreover, next time, we are trying to use google forms in the data collection which is design to collect the data appropriately and easy to manipulate. Peer review and…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing a good example. For me, transcribing is one of the hardest in the record and summary process especially, there are many speakers. Sometimes transcribing leads to bias because we need to cut or blurred certain words to protect privacy.

1. I am involved in the evaluation procedure called “3-3-1” which is Aedes strategy control in Thailand. This is one of the R2R in my division. I take responsibility for question-related to vector prevention and control.
2. This project collected primary data from the organization which is responsible for Aedes control in the area.
3. The…[Read more]

Definitely, we usually send data which is not included identity or sensitive information, usually aggregate data. Sending the data via email is a kind of data sharing aspect but only a specific time or factor. People who need the information have to send a formal letter to request the data and we send it through an email because we don’t have the…[Read more]

I agree that leader of information or chief of information is very important to seek and provide an opportunity to build organizational capacity.

Thank you for the good point, GEEKS is a good project to enhancing the use of information by increasing informaticians. Moreover, the hackathon is also one of the useful projects to solve specific issues by matching the IT team with public health expertise.

In Thailand, we have both an expert in medical and an expert in IT but we still lack an informatician who is dealing with medical and IT information. The Thai government is now emphasis in digital transformation in the government sector focusing on the infrastructure of IT but lacking the building capacity of informatician and health informatics…[Read more]