Saranath

Great! Thanks for sharing! The communication is a critical factor to determine successfulness of the project. Many Apps have been developed, but lack of communication may create problems when using is.

LINE application becomes a popular communication channel between hospitals and patients during the COVID 19 outbreak. Data security will be a main issue for using it.

For me, I think telemedicine can only use for some not all conditions. Hospital visits are also needed. I’m kind of afraid that in the future, young generation will mostly prefer telemedicine and feel reluctant to come to hospital or not.

This seems to be a good personal health record App. It’s good that you brought up the problem of interoperability between private hospitals and public sectors.

I agree that Mor Prom is a good App for vaccination program. At the beginning, there were some miscommunication between vaccine supplier, hospitals and vaccination centers, and Mor Prom admin. This created frustration among stakeholders. But overall, I think the App itself is very good.

Thanks for sharing!

Great! Thanks for sharing.

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Thanks everyone for sharing your thought!

I think the virtual COVID testing is really cool! One of the successful factor would be the literacy level of the people in the country. And of course, data privacy is the main concern for health IT projects.

Thanks for sharing! Health IT project can both create and reduce the inequity issue. Like your example, having the App as the national contract tracing program would make people who cannot properly access to the smart phone. In Thailand, the government also launch a mobile App for those with low-income or got impact from the COVID-19 to register…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing! I think we face the same situation in Thailand. There are many Apps and systems developed. Each one seems to working well within the system. However, lack of interoperability among system is the main concern; this could cause a large burden to the users.

Yes, telemedicine becomes popular and acceptable by hospitals and patients. If there is no COVID-19 situation, I don’t think that the telemedicine will be as much as acceptable. One challenge for health informatics is that we have that the IT implementation will not compromise patient’s safety.

Lampang province has very good system in managing COVID-19 cases and vaccination. I guess that the system has been developed within a short period. It would be great if you know what can be done and what cannot be done and how hard it is to be done in programming. This would really help you to manage and prioritize modules in the system.

Date format is always a challenge in database structure and data analysis. Many times, I have seen that the database developer (the programmer) did programming only for getting data input; they did not think beyond whether how the data structure can be used for the analysis or interpretation. Therefore, communication among stakeholders is very…[Read more]

It’s great that you brought up the legal issues. Legal and ethics issues are important when working with health data.

It’s great that you have background experience in managing health IT projects. We will learn more on project management in another class. Statistics is always a weak point for physicians. Learning on how to deal and use with the numbers would be very useful.

Great! Understanding back-end database would be really helpful for data analysis and data utilization.

To be exact, public health informatics is the sub-discipline that focus on the population. You may have heard health informatics or clinical informatics which focus on individual health data. But both health or public health informatics would require similar skills and knowledge as you mention.

COVID-19 really helps to accelerate the IT application in healthcare. In a positive way, these applications can be later applied to other diseases as well. Data security is a big issue in health IT project. When there is an incident of data leakage, this would jeopardize people’s trust on the system.