Saranath

Agree! Currently, many hospitals or organizations tend to use words like “digital”, “smart”, instead of “e”.

Good question! And I don’t have an answer for that. It’s very difficult to determine how big of the data should be called “Big data”. That’s why people keep adding more Vs characteristics to the term “Big data”. One of my project, we applied a machine learning technique (suppose to be a technique for big data analysis) to only 400 patient recor…[Read more]

I agree that the iMoji system would be very useful to help monitoring and control MDR-TB. In my opinion, a challenge for this system is how to visualize and interpret genetic data to let public health people understand and can make use of it.

Yes, resistance to change and data privacy are the main challenge in implementing health IT projects.

Anothai, quality of data input into the system is an important issue for developing a system, otherwise it would be difficult to make use of the data. This is why attempt should be made to integrate existing data from different sources to reduce data input workload.

Akkarin, having electronic data entry at field site is a challenge, both IT and people sides. Before implementation, we have to prepare well to make sure that the implementation will go smoothly. Otherwise, people may have bad impression with the system and then against to use it.

Hi Pyae, it seems that health informatics work in Myanmar has been moving forward far beyond Thailand. The GeneAlert system is interesting. I hope we can learn more from you.

Should we change the word “eHealth” to “digital health”?

Great examples from you all! Data from social media are certainly called big data. And we have seen that the companies have been utilizing their data very well, in terms of business. For example, they use machine learning technique to provide suggested pages related to your interests. In healthcare, EMRs from HIS can also be considered as big…[Read more]

Dear Thongchai, it is interesting! Accessibility to the data in the system is quite important for local public health operation.

Thanachol, a system with high sensitivity has to be traded off with low specificity. It’s a challenge for the system to balance these two indicators.

Dear Supawat, fully transform from paper-based to a full EMR is such a challenge, both technical and people. In many hospitals, doctors are the main group who resist to the change. We have to have a proper change management in the organization.

Ameen, having wearable device to help alert health event in elders is a good idea. As you mentioned, we have to make sure that the device has a good precision and accuracy. We don’t want too many false alarms…as it will lead to alert fatigue and people will no longer pay attention to the alerts. Importantly, we also do not want the system to…[Read more]

Ameen, twitter is a good example of Big Data. It’s really a challenge to analyze the data considering its volume, variability, variety, and validity of the tweets.