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Saranath replied to the topic Week 1 Topic 1 Introduction to PHI in the forum TMHG 523 Principles and Foundations of Public Health Informatics 2019 6 years ago
Absolutely, people-ware is the most important factor to determine the success of HIT project. This reminds the definition of Health Informatics = Health + information + people.
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Saranath replied to the topic Week 1 Topic 1 Introduction to PHI in the forum TMHG 523 Principles and Foundations of Public Health Informatics 2019 6 years ago
Hi Ameen, to make use of data, we should have a good system for data collection. There are several challenges related to HIS, including data quality, data privacy & confidentiality, and people who provide input data. It’s not easy to manage, but it isn’t too hard to implement as well.
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Saranath replied to the topic Week 1 Topic 1 Introduction to PHI in the forum TMHG 523 Principles and Foundations of Public Health Informatics 2019 6 years ago
Hi Pyae, working with EMR at national level is such a big job. I agree that having more knowledge and skills in management, and data utilization would definitely improve your work!
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Saranath replied to the topic Week 1 Topic 1 Introduction to PHI in the forum TMHG 523 Principles and Foundations of Public Health Informatics 2019 6 years ago
Totally agree with you, as an Informatician, we don’t need to be able to do everything by our own. But we should have related knowledge and communication & team working skills to be able to work with other disciplines and lead HIT projects.
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Saranath replied to the topic Introduce yourself in the forum TMHG 523 Principles and Foundations of Public Health Informatics 2019 6 years ago
Nice to meet you all. It’s good to know that you all have a good skill in recoding yourself. We will have an assignment asking you to record your presentation in the later week.
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Saranath replied to the topic Week 1 Topic 1 Introduction to PHI in the forum TMHG 523 Principles and Foundations of Public Health Informatics 2019 6 years ago
Public health informatics and medical informatics have similar core concepts, such as data standards, privacy & security, data utilization, and IT issues. I hope that knowledge and skills from this class would also help you to apply to your clinical practice. 🙂
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Saranath started the topic Week 3 Topic 3 What is eHealth? in the forum TMHG 523 Principles and Foundations of Public Health Informatics 2019 6 years ago
According to a paper by Shaw T, et al. on “What is eHealth (6)?”, there are several definitions that can explain “eHealth”. In your opinion, what should be a definition of eHealth?
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Saranath started the topic Week 3 Topic 2 Big data in health in the forum TMHG 523 Principles and Foundations of Public Health Informatics 2019 6 years ago
Can you give an example of data that you think it could be considered as “Big Data”?
What are the characteristics of the data that fit into 5Vs, or 7Vs, or 10Vs of Big data characteristics?
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Saranath started the topic Week 3 Topic 1 Significance of health informatics in the forum TMHG 523 Principles and Foundations of Public Health Informatics 2019 6 years ago
As we learn that we can consider that health informatics can help to increase value of healthcare practices, in terms of cost, user satisfaction, and superior outcomes. The papers provided in the reading assignment also discuss on how public health informatics can help to improve disease surveillance and the challenges of the implementation,…[Read more]
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Saranath started the topic Week 2 Topic 1 Computer networking in the forum TMHG 523 Principles and Foundations of Public Health Informatics 2019 6 years ago
You would like to develop a web-based application for patient appointment. The application will allow a patient to make doctor appointment online. For making an appointment, a patient must provide information, such as name, citizen ID, Hospital number (if available), clinical signs and symptoms (to send the patient to the appropriate clinic).
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Saranath started the topic Week 1 Topic 2 Why do we need EA? in the forum TMHG 523 Principles and Foundations of Public Health Informatics 2019 6 years ago
In general, different hospitals may have different system to manage their own health information. Medical information may not be shared or transferred across hospitals. Some patients may seek treatment from several hospitals during their course of illness. In addition, for public health purposes, each hospital is required to send reports on number…[Read more]
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Saranath started the topic Week 1 Topic 3 What is enterprise-wide information? in the forum TMHG 523 Principles and Foundations of Public Health Informatics 2019 6 years ago
Enterprise architecture provide a single plan that guide the interoperability of different systems or health IT project across organization (enterprise). If you would like to design an enterprise architecture of health information system among different hospitals within your province, who should involve in the designing process? What would be the…[Read more]
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Saranath started the topic Week 1 Topic 1 Introduction to PHI in the forum TMHG 523 Principles and Foundations of Public Health Informatics 2019 6 years ago
A professional in public health informatics (an informatician) requires knowledge and skills from multi-disciplines. According to your background, could you briefly discuss what kinds of knowledge and skills that you would need to gain in order to improve your professional in public health informatics.
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Saranath started the topic Introduce yourself in the forum TMHG 523 Principles and Foundations of Public Health Informatics 2019 6 years ago
To get to know each other, please post a VDO clip to introduce yourself.
1. Your name
2. Your background
3. What kind of work you are doing, particularly works that related to informatics.
4. What you expect to learn in this coursePlease upload your introduction clip here
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pbQTKitOOv0HZvjY6FigSNBJsf-W0qc6
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