Rawinan Soma

1. High value data, information, and knowledge – this issue relate on informatics topic of system design, database design, how to collect, managed, and analyzing the data into information and knowledge
2. Exchanged – Informatics issue is interoperability, health data standard, and how to design database to support health data sta…[Read more]

In both speaks, two leaders are the good communicator for building trust from people, to talk with current strategy in emergency response, future plan for worsen situation, and building capacities but in the different way. PM Lee Hsien Loong start with current situation, current plan, and the important one, what is this disease and how severity is…[Read more]

WHO declared six PHEIC since the established of IHR, they are
1. 2009 Swine flu
2. 2014 Polio
3. 2014 Ebola
4. 2016 Zika
5. 2018 Kivu Ebola
6. 2019 COVID-19
These events have to meet the definitions of PHEIC. They are two of four following criteria, public health impact, unusual or unexpected event, risk of international spread, and risk of…[Read more]

I think air pollution will become [public health emergency in the future for sure because this situation occurring nation-wide, especially in many cities. Many people will be affected with air pollution. Another reason is, there is proved evidenced that air pollution is harmful to human.
The information system needed to prepare and mitigate this…[Read more]

for Ebola, we had screening once in 2015 (not sure). We screened incoming flight from affected area at BKK airport. MERS was one of the screened disease during outbreak period and intensified during Hajj pilgrimage.

The consequence of inaccurate data from surveillance system would be consider through quantitative attribute of surveillance system evaluation. Sensitivity would be low ability to detect the case by surveillance system. Low PPV could cause the many false positive report that wastage the resource and affect credibility, reliability of surveillance…[Read more]

Modern information technology could be assisted the outbreak investigation throughout the process. For example, we could use real time surveillance data or report from hospital to detect abnormal spike of specific disease or events, we also use event-based surveillance that report from regional disease control office to pick the interesting,…[Read more]

From my opinion, Road traffic injuries (RTI) should be on surveillance system. As we know, Thailand has the highest incidence of RTI in the world, which cause too many medical cost, DALY loss, or quality of life even though there are preventable and evitable. If we collect data from surveillance system and analyzing them systematically to find the…[Read more]

In my recent study, hypertension is one of the silent killers in Thailand. 24.7% of Thai people had high blood pressure but, 45% of them was undiagnosed that lead to severe complication such as CAD, Stroke or ESRD. Moreover, 25% of hospital visitors in one fiscal year were raised blood pressure (SBP>140 or DBP>90) but 65% of them did not get…[Read more]

In Thailand disease surveillance system, the best performance function is early warning system. We have many of surveillance system e.g., report 506, Zika, Rabies, MERS, and event-based surveillance. These systems combine to early catch the abnormal event or abnormal spike of disease occurring. In the disease investigation, we often receive the…[Read more]

This vid will change how to motivate people, support, and promoting their collaboration by replacing incentive strategy to using intrinsic drive. Because incentive drive will lower the motivation to do cognitive functions. The better way is using intrinsic drive, ever people need to work or study in some degree of flexibility and provide choice of…[Read more]

In my opinion, good leader should consist of two things. First, leaders should have technical skill at above average level. The leaders should know the entire workflow and routine well enough for supervised team members or be a consultant for team members. Many of good leaders often be the good executors before they get promoted. Second, leaders…[Read more]

I would try Coaching leadership style because in my opinion, this style could support and motivate the team, helping team members through the hard situation. Coaching style also improve the performance entire team members through the appropriate evaluation. It did not blocked any ideas from the team members, that’s make positive working climate i…[Read more]

I decided to step-out from comfort zone 3 years ago. At that moment, I worked in the rural hospital. There was a regular life; wake-up, work, lunch, playing with my dogs, dinner, and bedtime. So, I did not bored this lifestyle but, I feel if I struck in this work for too long. I will lose the motivation to moving forward. I wanted to see the world…[Read more]

In this workshop and provided TEDtalk, what I learn from this part are the difference between hearing and listening. So, listening is not just hearing. Listening is one of important skill for the informatician, we listen from frontline worker for existing problems, from executive level for expectation, from developer for feasibility of…[Read more]

In the real world, if other organizations request for the raw data of the system like surveillance data, research question, or survey data. They should submit the proposal that contain such as the objective of the study, what and how much the data will used, and how to protect the data. This proposal will be going to the ethical committee board…[Read more]

In this situation, I choose not to tell my friend, because I will respect to patient autonomy and confidentiality. In addition, it strongly against the Personal Data Protecting Act, it is illegal. In this case, only attending physician have right to disclose the data to my friend’s husband. After all, their attending physician will follow the H…[Read more]

From the previous, I think my organization did not rely on ADKAR as much. They communicated in the board that we are going to use the new imaging system. They did not address what is the new system, why we use the new one, or risk of not use this system. However, the operation team from software vendor provide training, and coaching the…[Read more]

In couples years ago, my hospital implemented the new radio-imaging system. To convert from film to the computer image file. It made clearer, higher quality, and flexible image. In my opinion, the success of this system was result of many factors. The data of this system was quite simple, and demand by users. System design was usable, met the…[Read more]

DSS in my experience from the past usually comes in the reminder and alert. The reminders are the pop-up message from the previous visit after the patient’s interface was selected. The alert comes in many forms such as critical lab result alert, drug allergy alert, and drug interactions. These features aim to reduce the clinical error and i…[Read more]