Siriphak Pongthai

Maternal mortality rate (MRR)
Definition: the number of maternal deaths during a given time period per 100,000 live births during the same time period.
Calculation: (Number of maternal deaths/Total live births) * 100000
Main usefulness: MRR is an indicator reflects on the capacity of health systems that effectively prevent complication during…[Read more]

To be honest, prior to start studying BHI, health informatics was new to me.
From my perspective, health informatics in Thailand has not yet broaden and well-known. When I was a pharmacy student, no one tells me about roles of informaticians or how we participate in EMR. There is no chance of to have an internship in this field. I think to have a…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing your perspective. I really agree you on the point that the role of healthcare and IT has been completely separated in many settings.

If I were in charge of sharing data set of my country, I would consider sharing data set. By looking from the above, data sharing has pros over cons. However, there are my factors that needed to consider and ensure that data sharing is safe to be shared.

I first concern of data security, including privacy and confidentiality, which could lead to…[Read more]

From my point of view, implementing EMR has pros over cons. Below are what I think of advantages and disadvantages from implementing EMR:

Advantages:
– Ease for services and patients: patients and their care givers don’t have to carry document paper from one department to other departments since everything is electronically recorded.
– Enhance p…[Read more]

This is good to know how you cope those challenges in your country. Thank you for sharing those useful information 🙂

First of all, this paper is very good in mentioning how useful and important of big health data. Particularly when they mentioned that stent thrombosis in patient with CAD undergoing PCI was found through large-scale studies.

There are many challenges for research in using big health data indicated in this paper:
– Disease definition/…[Read more]

All the four steps recommended in the articles are good for fighting corruption, but I would like to add and modify something in those four steps. Some of those steps are practical in my organization as well:

– Having key stakeholders: the organization should have reporting system on corruption report. In my setting, employees can send an email…[Read more]

I agree with you on having anti-corruptive culture in the organization. I believe that by having fundamental training on this issue could have prevented future corruption in organization.

Let me introduce you to the system when I worked at a hospital particularly in Oncology Pharmacy Department. Most of oncologists are familiar in writing chemotherapy order regimen as well as progress note. However, chemotherapy and biotherapy are considered as highly toxic and hazardous drugs to cytotoxic classification.

This kind of drugs need…[Read more]

Thank you for your recommendations. I will improve that in my future flowchart 🙂

According to CISCO disaster recovery plan, procedures that I will include in the plan for my organization are:

1. Identification and analysis of disaster risks/threats: Power outage is one of the most critical risk that can be occurred in my setting (pharmacy storage for products that must be controlled temperature). However, system treats can be…[Read more]

If I were able to implement high availability (HA) technology in HIS, I think its benefit not only for patients but also healthcare workers themselves.

First, patients can get prompt services provided by hospital uninterruptedly. By having HA hospital can also operate all the systems without downtime regardless how many patients were at that…[Read more]

I am not directly working in the government healthcare sector. However, the STEEP factors I noticed during COVID-19 pandemic are following:

Social:
– People have more awareness in social distancing to prevent spreading of the disease.
– Government raised important of vaccination campaign to enhance people to go vaccinate to reduce severity of the…[Read more]

I have not been in part of system administration. However, recently just today, I coincidentally ran into pdf scanned files contain personal identifiable information which I should not get access into. I rose this issue to regulatory and IT department. They will soon investigate and handle with this issue. Definitely, the access should be locked…[Read more]

I agree with you that school and pharmacy should be corporate in this surveillance program. Because most of the time, parents will go to pharmacy for buying medicines for their kids before going to the hospital.
In addition, I appreciate how you enumerated us data flow diagram, data collection, and transfer method.

I am sure that your…[Read more]

Your presentation is very nice. I agree that dental caries is the most common oral problem and preventable. But sometimes it was neglected because some of patients don’t want to go to see dentist.
I like when you mentioned on warning message and audit trail. The warning message is really help in questionnaire survey. I think at least 2 time points…[Read more]

Here is my simple flowchart related to the trial, I’m currently working on. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r1fvvoymLzvlsT0Al1MmzXjRz7Q7ZJCu/view?usp=sharing

In my opinion both, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and President Trump, are doing good at delivering the speech. However, they have something different in six principles of CREC, recommended by the CDC.

Be First: PM Lee comes quicker in announcing the pandemic situation.
Be Right: Both provided the recommendation follow the medical guidance. PM…[Read more]