Saranath

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.

Great! Pacharapol

Hi Patcharapol, I agree that user satisfaction is the main factor to consider value of an HIT project. “Users” should be considered as various stakeholders related to the project, not only patient side. Interoperability is another issue. We will learn about Health Information Exchange next week.

Hi Tullaya, Most HIT projects were launched with a confidence on the value of improving workflow, reducing medical error (Information & Health parts). But one of the values that we have to really consider is user satisfaction (People part). Many HIT projects are fail due to inappropriately handling people issues.

Hello Chalermphon! Good example! I think the electronic event-based surveillance system could potentially improve the timeliness of data for outbreak investigation (beside the delay in lab result). Timeliness is one of a key for successful outbreak control!

Hi Thanachol, I agreed that for health data we should use private cloud, rather than public cloud for security reason. You also need to consider a trusted company for cloud service.

One characteristic of cloud service that I like is that it can be scale-up. You can rent cloud storage & service per amount of work that you expect. Once the system is getting bigger or has more users, you can scale it up very easily.

Hi Pacharapol! Using IaaS, you still need an IT manager to manage your cloud operating system. I’m not sure if one IT officer in the hospital will be able to do this.