Saranath

TanRabad is a very useful App for dengue control. I’m glad to hear that the App is widely implemented throughout the country. I totally agree that convincing people to use the App properly is the most challenging issue for the success of the project.

I’m interested to know whether there were any resistant to change from users (particularly doctors).

Your proposed preventive measures are well defined and cover all aspects to prevent this kind of attack. 🙂

Human error is one of the cause for this attack. All authorized persons must be appropriately and regularly trained.

Thanks for the brief description and propose the solutions for the particular event. Recently, one hospital in Thailand just was hit by the ransomeware. It caused shut down of almost all activities in the hospital. Regularly and appropriately backing up data is another important part to recover from the ransomeware attack.

Deidentification of data is a good method to protect privacy data. However, this could limit the data use by physicians and radiologist. It’s quite a challenge to balance between data security and data utilization.

Agree! Human error is the most difficult thing to convene. The system must be well designed to avoid errors that could happen by human.

Agree with you all, we should carefully choose a trusted third-party vendor. Contract should include risk management section.

This event reminds us to think hardly when we hire the third party to work on our database. We should be able to check whether their procedures were well conducted.

Although the HIPPA is strictly followed in the US, we still have heard this kind of report from time to time. Think about our countries, sometimes people don’t take this issue seriously. Particularly, when big crime or accident events happened on the news.

Agree. But it may depend on the capability of the IT officer in your organization.

When you provide information to the executive board, don’t forget mentioning about cost of each server model (both tangible and intangible cost).

Sila, as you are a programmer and IT in a hospital in Thailand. I know that you have a good programming skill. Do you think that IT officer in other hospitals (in general) would be able to handle or config PaaS cloud service model?

Wow! I’m glad to see this kind of active and informative discussion among all of you! 🙂

Monitoring and evaluation is very important in any work project. I hope this program could help to improve your works.

Nowadays, you cannot escape IT in medicine. IT is integrated in almost all aspects in healthcare. Having knowledge and skills in health informatics would really help you work more efficiently.

Great! It seems that you have a good experience working on health data and public health. Hope this program fit to your needs.

Even working in laboratory, you would also need a well planned system to organize your lab samples. Hope knowledge and skills learned from our program would help to enhance your work!

Thanks everyone for good comments. One stakeholder that most of you did not mention is users like patients. Should we include patients as one of the stakeholders?

Thanks everyone. Health information system requires a well planned architecture since the beginning. It might takes time and cost, but I think it’s worth to carefully plan.