Saranath

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.

Great to hear that you are interested in public health and research about animal health. I hope knowledge and skills learned from this program would help you to feel more confident on public health work.

I’m also an epidemiologist. Health informatics is really help to enhance the epidemiology work.

Hi! Mental health is an important public health, especially during this time. I’m looking forward to seeing new innovative interventions/processes to help people with mental health.

Great! To be able to utilize the data, we need to understand how to collect and manage data appropriately to make sure that the data have good quality and integrity. We will learn these issues from the program.

Totally agree! Communication is a key for multidiciplinary works. Sometimes IT and health people are talking in different languages. Understanding each other would really help to improve your work!

It seems that your unit has work with many other people: doctors, lab technician, statisticians, data manager, IT. This is such a challenge. To increase the efficient of your team work, it would be good to have a person to understand context of different disciplines. This would assist your team to work seamlessly.

Agree! Many organizations hold tons of data, but do not effectively utilize them. I hope that knowledge and skills learned from this program would help you to effectively utilize the data in your organization to assist decision making.

Yes! This is what the informatician meant to be– connecting the dots among different disciplines.

Great! Hope you gain these knowledge and skills in our program.

Very comprehensive and informative dashboard. I like that you use different charts to present the data, such as tornado chart for confirmed and recovered cases. I also like that you have a separate dashboard for comparison and forecasting. This would be really helpful for those who are interested in this matter, while not bothering those who just…[Read more]