Tanyawat Saisongcroh

I would say “No!” to the point 14 on page 342 stated
“One should always use two-sided P values”

In some practical situation, we can only go on one direction. For example, when we are testing whether a new drug impairs renal function by measure serum creatinine. It will never be decreasing serum creatinine scientifically. So, this case might be…[Read more]

To my understanding, TAM system theory in terms of usefulness, the new technology should improve performance of my job, so increased in productivity, effectiveness and quality. To compare with the old one, it’s about being fast, time saving, effort saving, cost reducing and overall usefulness.

I totally agree with all classmates’ opinion. I’d like to add on example to be more specific, there are several of external variables that might influence an individuals’ perceived ease of use or perceived usefulness of a new technology, in order to be studied or objective monitored. For example, personalization, collaboration environment, u…[Read more]

Efficacy is the ability to create the expected effect of a given intervention under ideal, very specific and controlled conditions. For example, drug efficacy, vaccine efficacy. It’s rarely used this term outside of pharmacological and clinical trials. Effectiveness is about how well the intervention works in the real world, outside of the…[Read more]

To figure out why respondents are not using bednets, I’d rather start from literature review. This topic is quite common problem, about mosquito related disease prevention. So, there might be previous published literature in large database such as Pubmed, for the reason or barriers to bednets or mosquito net use. Then with those information,…[Read more]

Interesting issue here. Thanks for sharing the HIPAA link.

For myself, with the combination of these non-identifiable data, people will know that this would be me;

Sex: female
Job: Pediatric Orthopedic
Workplace: Ramathibodi Hospital
Position: junior staff

Hi all, I’m Tanyawat. I work at Ramathibodi Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand as an Orthopedic surgeon. The main work is covering in 3 dimensions; service ( in pediatric Orthopedic field), teaching (medical students/residents/fellows) and research. There’s a lot of data and statistics part in my everyday work such as patients and diseases’ sta…[Read more]

Employment status could be one of confounders that associate with this finding. Those workers and employees, assumed that they are in working age group, they might be assigned from their organization to use a contact tracing application. While self-employed or retired group, they might use this app less, so, the contact pattern found less active.

Maternal Mortality Rate

Definition
The number of maternal deaths during a given time period per 100,000 live births during the same time period.
* Maternal deaths: Female deaths from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management (excluding accidental or incidental causes) during pregnancy and childbirth or within 42 days of…[Read more]

So in my setting, a large public healthcare institute, we have been strictly following governance policy, then transformed into action plan on our organization policy which mainly controlled by hospital infection control (IC) unit and then also adjusted to department policy level. As a worker under department and hospital policy, here are some…[Read more]

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) scheme or 30 Baht scheme has been a game changer in healthcare coverage for Thai citizens as Dr.Preut mentioned. As it has been establish since 2002, I have a chance to experience along the growth of it as a Thai citizen, a family member of the patient under UC and also a provider in tertiary
health center who…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing such comprehensive issues as an insider key person’s perspectives.I strongly believe that your work will make all the difference in Myanmar for sure. I’m rooting for you.

Thank you for mentioning “data.go.th”. I think this is one of good realistic example of open access dataset resources with data sharing regulation under governance support.

I think the budget is one of the key. Once government support and invest more on HIS nation wide, we might reach that scale soon.

In my opinion, even though in some part of Thailand has developed and implemented health information technology to their system, overall knowledge and supply is still inadequate and has a long way to go.
As it is still preferable level not mandatory level and depend on local investment.

Challenge#1 The importance of health informatics This refers…[Read more]

“If you are in charge of a data set from your country, will you be thinking about data sharing and why?” Share or not to share….

In my opinion, data sharing has pros more than cons. So I will go with sharing but with condition, considering what, when, where, to whom, to minimize the cons side.

1. Under the consensus Policy :There should be the…[Read more]

Totally agree with you. In term of training in data science management, particular in big data and machine learning, it might be a big challenge as it needs time and investment.

In my hospital setting, using EMR for a decade, I would say it is worth implementing technology in health system.

Advantages
Better security
– Medical records are contained with confidential patient information. Electronic records can be protected with robust encryption methods to keep crucial information secure.
– With EMR system, we can grant…[Read more]