Ching To Chung

Sorry for the late reply of this discussion. I had complications from my surgery and was incapacitated for a while.

I would like to speak from the experience of Hong Kong and how my university handled COVID.

Privacy and transparency: An app is enforced on all citizens to track their locations by adopting the policy of “Vaccine Passport”. The…[Read more]

Hong Kong as a developed city has been doing fairly well in terms of approaching Universal Health Coverage, but it certainly does not have a fully implemented UHC
system.
Hong Kong has a fairly mature healthcare system with public and hospitals covering the vicinity of pretty much every district, be it urban or rural. It follows a mixed healthcare…[Read more]

I would definitely be thinking of data sharing if I am in charge of the data, given that the participants know about the data sharing and agree, and that the desensitivization procedures are properly done. As mentioned in the lecture, data sharing contributes a lot to science in general and is usually beneficial to both parties.

For example, if I…[Read more]

In my opinion, the condition of the health informatics workforce in Hong Kong is terrible. Hong Kong is extremely slow in integrating IT into its health functions. The health informatics workforce is mainly concentrated in the Centre of Health Protection and the Department of Health, which are governmental bodies doing public health, epidemiology,…[Read more]

In Hong Kong, the wide-spread transition and usage of EMR only began in 2016 through a governmental intiative. The advantages of using EMR is immediately obvious after the city-wide adoption. When traditional paper records were used, it was extremely difficult to trace a patient’s medical history when the patient uses different medical f…[Read more]

**Missing Data**

One of the ways that I think could solve missing data is to educate and train healthcare staff to chart and document things more completely. As mentioned in the paper, one of the reasons that there is missing data is that healthcare professionals don’t think documenting certain items in the EMR is useful. If we train staff to u…[Read more]

I do agree with the four points proposed in the paper.

First is to convene key stakeholders in the health system, including policy makers, health professionals, and managers, to seek agreement on the scale and nature of corruption in each health system. While this may seem obvious, this is indeed very important. In the health system where…[Read more]

In the Hong Kong health system, a few selected public hospitals are integrated with university medical schools to offer a special expert clinic. Patients can pay an extra amount of money out-of-pocket to consult the professional teaching staff of Hong Kong’s top medical schools. This opens up a way for the teaching staff of the universities to do…[Read more]

In the graduating project of my undergraduate degree, I developed a deep learning NLP system to read company’s annual reports and predict their bankruptcy risks. It is a very big and complicated project and I had to do it on my own. It involves the 12 steps of

Step 1: Define the project clearly.

I defined the goals and objectives of my pro…[Read more]

I think an important thing would be giving feelings of affirmation to potential leaders, because competent people often have doubts about themselves. When I was in my undergraduate studies and are doing projects with my classmates, I often see people in my team who are very knowledgeable about the topic and should be the one who lead the team.…[Read more]

I will talk about a disaster recovery plan for the information system of the University of Hong Kong, which includes research data, university documents, and members emails.

Risk Assessment:

A risk assessment is crucial to identify the potential threats and vulnerabilities to the information system. The assessment should evaluate both…[Read more]

Hong Kong’s hospitals nowadays are extremely reliant on its information systems, especially for communication and data exchange between different healthcare facilities. Patients’ appointments, medication records and vital signs are all recorded and tracked on the hospital information system. Therefore, any unplanned downtime for the hospital inf…[Read more]

I am good at recalling details since I have quite good short term and long term memory. I don’t have to write things down and I could still remember the intricate details of what others have said, like date, time, and location. However, I would need to improve on my emapthizing skills. Sometimes when others talk to me they complain about something…[Read more]

I remember an incident that happened in my primary school/secondary school days that is a breach of confidentiality and caused a big mess

What happened?
It was the beginning of the school year and students are given their username and passwords to log into the school system for the first time. However, the username and passwords were short and…[Read more]

This is a very interesting topic indeed! A very original and creative idea. I find diseases related to toxicology very intriguing. I live in Hong Kong where mushrooms are not a common sight, but occassionally I do hear news about hikers trying toxic mushrooms resulting severe consequences.
The system could potentially be very useful such that we…[Read more]

Strength: Self Management
I think I am one of the very few people who say I am good at this. I am very slow to anger and remain calm at unexpected situations since I am good at deriving solutions. For example, when I was travelling to Japan with my friends, we missed the last train. While my friends were panicking, I was able to keep calm and…[Read more]

Singapore

Be First: The prime minister addresses the public in a timely manner by providing an update on the coronavirus situation and the government’s response. The speech is given within two weeks of the COVID outbreak which is in time.

Be Right: The speech contains accurate information about the virus, its characteristics, and governm…[Read more]

Hong Kong has been driving its efforts towards technology and transformation. The one thing that I think we need to work on is definitely transparency and trust.
It is important for the health system to be transparent towards its users. As the paper mentioned, this would involve ensuring that data policies are fair and equal, and that privacy and…[Read more]

Past diseases that have been declared as PHEIC are as follows:
Swine flu (2009–2010)
Polio (2014–present)
Ebola (2014–2016)
Zika virus (2016)
Kivu Ebola (2019–2020)
COVID-19 (2020–2023)
Mpox (2022–2023)

The outbreaks raise such concerns because they fit the definition and criteria of a PHEIC, posing as a threat to global health. This may du…[Read more]