Pongthep Miankaew

Hi,

Nice post.

The installation of information systems everywhere, especially in government agencies, is always faced with budget problems because legal hardware and software are expensive. If you want to use open source software, you need to find personnel who have specific knowledge in that software. Let me share a story from Thailand. Just…[Read more]

Tightening up your password security is a good measure, and also be careful when connecting to public networks because it might be a network created by hackers to capture your data.

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Pongthep

Storing data on the servers of reputable service providers like AWS does not mean that the data is safe. Because if you don’t have adequate IT security measures or SOP in place, there will definitely be security problems. Therefore, we should have technical understanding and put it into practice and install it effectively. I agree with what you…[Read more]

Good idea. Using mobile app to access their medical records is very useful for patients. However, we have to strengthen the security of the portal because the data is very sensitive. We have to design the app to protect the confidentiality by using the features like encryption and strong authentication.

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Pongthep

PHP is a good choice for app development. I think it is good for those who are stater programmers because it has less learning curve. It is simple in code and programming syntax.

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Pongthep

JavaScript is one of the most popular programming language because it supports many platforms and Operating System, you can build an application running on Windows, Linux, and cross platform for mobile app too.

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Pongthep

Yes, Telemedicine allows patients and doctors to interact with each other in real-time, just like entering a real hospital. However, one factor that may hinder this type of technology is the speed and stability of the internet system. The hospital should provide a good performance and speed of its computer system and networking for the best…[Read more]

Your opinion shows that you have a comprehensive understanding on computer networking topic.

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Pongthep

Absolutely, a centralized information system plays an important role in enabling all scattered systems and data among different departments to be effective information not only for operating room management, but also in every department or division in a hospital. We need to have a good design in system workflow and data workflow together with…[Read more]

Copying information from source documents is an extremely difficult task. As you said, it may lead to erroneous data imports that affect data analysis and data quality.

Let’s me share with you, I have experience working with CRF too, which is copying data from source documents. After that, I will import them into the computer system. The system…[Read more]

You have a good understanding of system availablity.
Your posts are very comprehensive and detailed.

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Pongthep

Installing SSL not only helps keep data confidentiality, but also builds organization credibility as well.

A risk assessment is a good idea because it will make us know the weaknesses of the system and fix it before it gets attacked

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Pongthep

Absolutely, sharing username and password should not happen in an organization. It could lead to many problems later. In terms of password policy in the organization, from my experience, I have implemented an “active directory”, the software from Microsoft to enforce users to behave in accordance with the organization’s policy. So, with this way,…[Read more]

Sharing username and password is not a good idea. For the problem of system interupting when it is under maintenance, normally IT should maintain the system after midnight, this way affects less users. Another way is a good choice, but it is quite technical, we called “live migration”, IT administrators, especially in cloud setting know this…[Read more]

Nowadays, although cloud technology has advanced and gained popularity. Some people still feel insecure about storing their data in the cloud. Normally, it’s good practice to avoid opening a public IP to users from the Internet to access important data resources. You need to implement a good and strong firewall policy as well as an access control…[Read more]

Risk assessment is the best way to address your organinzation’s cyber threats, policies, procedures, and IT environment. It will provide you a report how good you are able to maintain CIA and what you need to make better security.

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Pongthep

Hybrid cloud is a good choice for an organization that having on-premise system and have a plan to migrate to the cloud system. Absolutely, you can save cost by hosting a sytem on cloud, for example, you can save cost of hardware maintenance, IT network engineers, etc. Also, most cloud service providers also provide many important services with no…[Read more]

Today, my information system is hosting on a hybrid cloud too, which has both on-premise and on-cloud systems, connected to each other. Before migrating to the cloud, the reliability of the cloud provider was my first consideration. They must have several standards such as ISO 27001 and CSA STAR which is Cloud Security Certification.

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Pongthep

It is important to consider the cost of where to host the system. I agree with you to choose the one which is cheaper. In fact, hosting the on-premise system, where are many costs we have to consider such as software licensing, server and network equipments. Also, there might be more expenses on IT personnel like network engineers, system…[Read more]

Absolutely, you need to have a good plan for the transition. Apart of cost, one thing that very important to take into consideration is about standard of cloud providers. From my experience, the cloud providers should have certification of at least ISO 27001, ISO 27799, and CSA STAR. Also, they should guarantee Service Level Agreement (SLA)…[Read more]