Tanatorn Tilkanont

Thanks for introducing a new health system. I never experienced this kind of SIP. But I understand its advantage. This system is more formal than using LINE and all the evidence could be captured with SIP, unlike LINE.
I agree that the most important thing is the training and explain the importance of using SIP since Site Initiation Visit (SIV).…[Read more]

Hi Zarni, Unfortunately, I could not find any paper written in English.
There’s only in Thai, which is a news/announce from Thailand NHSO website.
>> https://www.nhso.go.th/news/3809
If you are interested, you can visit the website and use translation tools. Sorry for inconvenience.

I agree with all recommendations provided in the articles. Fighting corruption would improve the health system and reduce health inequality.

For the first recommendation, I think convening key stakeholders would impact the change in policy-level. In this level, anti-corruption could be effectively executed. However, population power also matters.…[Read more]

Recently, the new health system was announced by the National Health Security Office (NHSO) with regards to free drug dispensing in the drugstore setting. Patients who have common illnesses, such as fever, cough, sore throat, headache, dizziness, stomachache, diarrhea, constipation, etc., can receive treatment according to their rights (Universal…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing. Your information shows obviously the factors that impact healthcare resources.
The emergency decree (curfew) announcement is not only a political issue but also impacts the economy as people are not able to work or transport during curfew.

(Please accept my apologies for the delayed response.)

A disaster recovery plan is very important to the overall business continuity of the organization. It protects the organization from a negative event or other major disruption of information systems.

First, we are going to start with the identification and analysis of disaster risks or…[Read more]

Apologize for the delay in response.
In the patient aspect, implementing “High Availability” technology in the hospital will reduce the patients’ waiting time when they visit the hospital because of the fast and good quality of hospital services. The hospital systems will run smoothly with no interruptions.
In the hospital aspect, implementing “Hi…[Read more]

Good work creating the workflow for the staff to understand and follow.
However, I spend a little longer time making decisions for the questions including not/could not and answering yes/no. I would like to propose using simple questions in the decision node. (Ex. Nearly expired discount allowed?). This is just my personal view but overall your…[Read more]

I deeply understand your situation as I had experienced a similar issue before, but I could not make it to discuss it with PI. I really respect your leadership to get out of your comfort zone and run through obstacles. This is such a big step for young CRA like us. 😂

Nice to know your story. Cheer up!

The STEEP analysis is used to identify the external factors that could significantly impact an organization. We can analyze the past and predict the future. The following STEEP listed the future factors which are uncertain and might affect health resources during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Social:
– Increasing awareness in the population to prevent…[Read more]

Firstly, I have never been involved in information system design and so I have no experience in not being able to preserve the CIA as well. But let me share one experience that may nearly impact information confidentiality. I was once experienced working as a clinical research monitor and needed to access the EMR system at the clinical site to…[Read more]

Singapore President Lee Hsien Loong:
I quite appreciate PM Lee Hsien Loong on his public speaking. He utilized all CERC principles in his speech. (Be First) Within 2 weeks of COVID-19 spreading in the country, he quickly shared the situation first. (Be Right) He explained what is known, where we are, and what we line ahead. He informed what have…[Read more]

From my point of view, it is good that Thailand started to implement health technology during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there are still some fields per the article of Al Knawy B., et al. that need to be improved.

Team: I can see that there are many teams in our country trying to create a digital health platform such as telemedicine, and…[Read more]

Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) is a formal declaration by WHO of an event that constitutes a public health risk to other countries through international spread or impact of disease and potentially requires a coordinated international response. The following list of disease outbreaks has been declared as PHEIC as it met at…[Read more]

As reviewed in the publication by Silenou et al., there are some attribute evaluations have been performed for the newly deployed SOMRAS compared to the conventional surveillance system for Human Monkeypox Outbreak in Nigeria, such as timeliness, completeness, and the user’s workload to transfer cases from paper forms to the database. The result s…[Read more]

Thank you for a comprehensive surveillance system. There is a high incidence of hepatobiliary cancer in Thailand. I believe that your surveillance system will be very useful to public health.
As you mentioned in the data flow diagram, I understand that you mean the data from the Ministry of public health could be shared with sponsors once there’s…[Read more]

Your surveillance system is comprehensive and useful for Thailand. The data flow diagram is clear on where the data was collected and transferred through the system.
I believe that once we know the outbreak of the disease, we could use this surveillance system to identify the further causes of the disease, such as the specific area that have a…[Read more]

Since I do not have much experience in project planning, please let me share the flowchart I have just created with information adopted from the article of E.Haley, et.al. “Strategic planning and recommendations for healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic”

This flowchart was created by using draw.io
Please feel free to comment if you…[Read more]

The information technology could assist in every step of an outbreak investigation. The steps include the following.

1. Verification and Preparation: To establish the existence of an outbreak, we start with passive cases, the data of diagnostic and laboratory results could be collected from the report generated from the electronic medical records…[Read more]