Saranath

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.

Thanks! Another important person that you should ask to involve is “the boss”. Leadership commitment is one of a successful factor to drive the project.

Thanks for sharing! Yes, gaining on IT, data analysis, and management skills would really differentiate the informaticians from other public health/health practitioners.

Yes, public health or community health is as important as clinical practice. Good public health management would help cut down number of unnecessary patients in the hospital. Healthcare staff can pay more attention to those who really need help. I’m glad to hear that you want to learn more about IT and management skills. These will certainly h…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing! People have different personality and style in communication. It would be good to understand yourself and knowing others to get an effective communication.

I think one of important skills for statisticians is database and data management skills. The quality and integrity of your analysis output will largely depend on the quality of data input into the analysis. It would be great if you could be able to involve in the data collection, database setup, or data management processes.

Thank you! You mention about working with multidisciplinary team. Sometimes you don’t really need to have the knowledge regarding those multidisciplines, but you need to understand their working process. Empathy is another important skills when working in team.

Yes, communication and team leading is the important skills in public health practices. On the job training is the most useful way to learn. What we learn in the class will only provide you concept and some examples that you can apply to your real work.

Thanks for sharing!

Agree that working in public health field (actually in any fields) requires multidisciplinary approach. What about knowledge and skills on IT and management, would you think they are important for improving and sustaining the project?

Great! With public health background, having IT knowledge and skills would be very important to strengthen your career in public health informatics. Management skills would also important when you have to work on Health IT project.

Nice, simple but informative dashboard. I personally like to gold color. However, the bright read color on black background is not good for the eyes. You may try to adjust the tone of red color a bit.

When presenting number in Million unit, please be careful as when we filter down to a particular country the number of case/death may not reach…[Read more]