SIPPAPAS WANGSRI

What are some specific ‘external variables’ that you think might influence an individuals’ perceived ease of use or perceived usefulness of a new technology?

I am currently working on research about the technology acceptance model (TAM). The original proposal behind the idea of this model was that an individual’s behavioural intention to use a…[Read more]

The terms efficacy and effectiveness are frequency used in health care. The first term, efficacy is the ability of a treatment to work in ideal or controlled conditions, whereas effectiveness is the ability of a treatment to work in real-world settings.

Efficiency, on the other hand, is a term referred to the ratio of the output to the inputs of…[Read more]

In a study to determine contact patterns in Thailand, people were encouraged to use a contract tracing application over a 3-month period. The researcher found that young adults had the most active contact pattern than other age groups. Please help identify confounders for this association. Please provide one confounder for each student, and please…[Read more]

Choose one (or more) of the following vital statistics and describe
1. Definition of each vital statistic?
2. How to calculate each vital statistic?
3. What are the main usefulness of each vital statistic?

Here is a list of vital statistics.
Case-Fatality rate
Mortality rate
Age-specific mortality rate
Maternal mortality rate
Infant mortality…

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I see many fabulous work and interesting point of view from you guys! So impressive and comprehensive. Thanks!

For me, as a physician, my current and perhaps forever job would be treating patients! Like many of our doctor friends here said, “First, Do No Harm”. I have treated most patients the same way without taking the patient’s socioeconomic…[Read more]

Please share about the work towards the UHC scheme in your country, what works and what needs to be done to make it work, strength and weakness, for example. (10 marks)

The UHC scheme in Thailand (or a.k.a 30-Baht Scheme / Gold Card / UC – Universal Coverage) is a well-known scheme that brings healthcare access, the fundamental rights, to all…[Read more]

I agree with data standardisation. If it is possible to enforce data structure and data standard, that would be ideal. However, HIS for each hospital are designed separately and they often implement their own database structure. Thankfully we have a FHIR HL7 for this purpose. Hope that one day it will be implemented in a large scale!

In your opinion, what is the situation of health informatics workforce in your country? What are the challenges regarding this issue?

In Thailand, we probably have heard terms about “data, big data” more frequently in past few years. The trend about data-driven decision becomes more and more popular. In health care sector, most data collected…[Read more]

“If you are in charge of a data set from your country, will you be thinking about data sharing and why?” (10 marks)

This is a very interesting question. As of today, we are living in the world driven by data and they are undoubtedly invaluable whether in any form or format. In other professions, data can help them make a decision, research pur…[Read more]

Using EMR instead of the traditional paper-based medical records has various advantages. Especially we are currently living in the era of “data-driven decision”, digitising the data gives us an opportunity to utilise them without having to use manpower alone.

Let’s start with the advantages of using EMR instead of paper-based medical record first…[Read more]

What are your suggestions on coping with those challenges? (10 marks)

From the research paper, there were 14 challenges identified in using big data, its application and implementation in the field of health care. There were some important points that this publication addressed, which were;

1. Missing Data – from my experiences in dealing with T…[Read more]

This discussion topic is indeed very interesting! I’ve always known that there surely are corruption in the health care field of work, but defining and tackling them are the whole next level. Just like other professions, corruptions are undeniably everywhere. Think of them as shades of grey, there are so many level of corruption and it depends o…[Read more]

I will discuss about health system in Thailand, particularly in remote areas, or any health care services outside university hospital and/or smaller than provincial hospital.

Here are lists of main concerns and potential improvement

1. Available resources and budget distribution
– Personnel/health care workers — this topic has been an i…[Read more]

According to CISCO Disaster Recovery Plan Best Practices, they have proposed three core components that should be included in the disaster recovery plan which are,
(1) Identify and classify the threats/risks that may lead to disasters
(2) Define the resources and processes that ensure business continuity during the disaster
(3) Define the…[Read more]

Sorry for late response!

High availability technology is a very useful technology these days because it can effectively manage, distribute and ensure the availability of important data. For RAID technology can make a redundancy by utilising array of drives (depending on RAID type). If you need your data to be highly available and that data is too…[Read more]

I have the exact same problem with what Mr.Kawin said! It’s about the default password and “test” password which I believe was once created to simplify internal testing yet those accounts still are active in real world use. Nonetheless, I have never really had any direct experience about CIA in my organisation. Well, there might be some “downtime”…[Read more]

Reflect and report some factors related to healthcare resources during the pandemic, categorized by a STEEP letter in your setting.

Imagining I’ve been working for the government healthcare sector, monitoring all healthcare resources in Thailand, A scenario planning strategic — STEEP (which stands for Social, Technologies, Environment, Economic…[Read more]

Your presentation explicitly addresses the importance of snakebite victims its consequences very well.
I also have seen a LINE group which has been created by a volunteer group of people (Hotline LINE Snake in the house; สายด่วนงูเข้าบ้าน)

They can identify type of snakes by sending them a picture and they will usually respond within 5-10 min…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing!
As I am also doing an assignment in this very same topic, I must say that your presentation is very comprehensive! RSV really is a threat these days, I have seen many children suffered from RSV pneumonia and it was very bad.

Your presentation on stakeholders also include community leader and village health volunteer, which…[Read more]