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From my understanding, eHealth is to utilize technologies to enhance the efficacy, effectiveness, and efficiency of healthcare to be better. An eHealth project could be classified into or incorporated with three domains, including health monitor, communication, and data sources. The eHealth project is possibly implemented as a health assistant to…[Read more]

The big data that could be an example related to our daily life would be health and fitness data collected by a wearable smart device called Apple watch.

5Vs characteristics
1. Volume
The Apple Watch continuously collects data and tracks physical activities, such as step counts, heart rate measurement, blood oxygen, time asleep, respiratory rate,…[Read more]

1. Have you ever observed a health informatics project in your (other) organization? Please provide a brief introduction.

Since my work doesn’t related to healthcare or IT directly, I would like to discuss a health informatics project that I have experienced before, called Thailand Digital Health Passport for COVID-19. During the COVID-19…[Read more]

Apart from aforementioned preventive measures by Khun Sirithep and Khun Thitikan, other potential protections against the data breach could be data classification and data encryption. Classifying data based on sensitivity helps apply appropriate security measures to each category to ensure that highly sensitive data is protected with higher…[Read more]

From my perspective, an another defense against SQL injection attacks could be validating user inputs to contain only expected data types and formats before processing them in the application.

From my perspective, an another protection against DDoS attack and exposure to public access could be implementing strong firewall to restrict access to Memcached instances or using network segmentation to isolate Memcached server from other network parts.

The web-based application for patient appointments on cloud server is more cost-effective than purchasing and maintaining physical server hardware. Since the usage of a healthcare application for patient appointments may fluctuate, cloud servers easily scale up or down based on the application’s demand. Some leading cloud providers offer high…[Read more]

I would like to focus on 3 examples of cyberattack methods that occur in hospitals.

1) Ransomware attacks:
In 2017, the WannaCry ransomware attack targeted hospitals and healthcare organizations worldwide, including the National Health service (NHS). It exploited a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Systems across networks. WannaCry infected…[Read more]

Thai-Chana is one of the COVID-19 disease-control tracing mobile applications as an online registration system for people entering public venues. This system aims to determine crowdedness of business and public locations for disease-control measures of physical distancing management. The app allows users or visitors to ‘check-in’ and ‘ch…[Read more]

As a biomedical research assistant experienced in cellular/molecular research and vector surveillance, my background knowledge and skills are mainly in biological laboratory and partially in entomological research. Even though my current job isn’t directly correlated with public health/healthcare/IT professionals (as classmates), it is somehow…[Read more]