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Thanachol

I don’t know the exact number of health informatician in Thailand. However, the number of this career might not adequate to develop health technology system in this country. For example, I observed that the programmer develop a feast of software in order to assist the health care workers or patients, however, few of that software could be applied…[Read more]

I consider sharing the information rather than keeping it alone. The advantage of data sharing is to contribute the update knowledge or situation to others. For example in this COVID-19 outbreak, we could follow the current number of cases start from China through many countries, thus we could assess the risk for our own country. That benefit the…[Read more]

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is medical insurance supported by Thailand’s state welfare. UHC does not only lessen the out-of-pocket expenditure but also improve preventive health care. However, this welfare burden the health care workers from the outrageous visits.
UHC profit the country reducing the medical expense because of several reasons.…[Read more]

The internet era has improved the ability of communication and information sharing. People can access knowledge by browsing the internet at home. Products can be advertised without a physical store and it can be sold online. Public health officer can communicate with people with Facebook Live instead of waiting for the television broadcaster. It…[Read more]

EMR implementation in the hospital could be beneficial in several aspects while there are some limitations after digital transformation. After using EMR, health expenditure could be claimed from universal health insurance and the other two major insurances accurately and timely compared to the paper-based system. Registration procedure and space…[Read more]

Suggestion on coping with the challenges in health informatics includes:
1. Missing data: we should imply the solution in these three steps involve
1.1 Collection: The necessary information should be set as compulsory in the electronic medical record.
1.2 Consolidation: Algorithm to check required variables should be set up.
1.3…[Read more]

The biggest step of health system improvement is the universal health coverage implementation. Despite it seems to focus on fair financial contribution, but to make the sustained system it needs a good governance system to improve effective health facility, skilful technician and efficient resource management. After universal health coverage…[Read more]

I am going to scope the disaster recovery plan for hospital information system, It should include identify and classify the risks that may lead to disasters, define the resources and process that ensure health service continuity, define the reconstitution mechanism. I would like to adopt the replication to shorten the recovery time objective…[Read more]

High Availablity technology will make a hospital information system (HIS) work effectively. HIS can reduce the work redundancy, the information can be collected as a digital record at a time of consultation, thus it can be analysed instantly. HIS also help the decision making and prevent the adverse effect from inappropriate prescribing.…[Read more]

My hospital once had the hospital information system broke down due to the server is out of order. At that time the server was backed up every evening, it is mean that information stored after last back up became unavailable. The HIS was shut down for a day and the staff have to re-entry the data. This situation is an example of lacking…[Read more]

The surveillance could monitor not only the new case but also the situation from the past. Thus it would be great if the objective includes more than the new case. Case definition might include clinical symptoms and laboratory as well. You can find the example in the national r506 surveillance system which also included dengue, dengue hemorrhagic…[Read more]

This is the worth tool to tackle tuberculosis which is one of the most important communicable diseases in Thailand. The case definition should be clarified more specific as well as using laboratory result. However, the technology that will apply to this surveillance will be helpful in real practice.

People get panic because plaque is the re-emerging disease in China. People might not familiar with this disease and it is spread by a rodent that makes them more worry because this animal is commonly live nearby human in the households. The government should determine the risk communication authority who will prepare the information to the…[Read more]

I would like to have an early warning system for measles. Although it is a vaccine-preventable disease, measles has high transmissibility and it is become epidemic in several areas over the world including Thailand. The manifestation of measles is quite unique, though physicians might not recognize as it is a vaccine-preventable disease and it…[Read more]

The pollution could be a potential future public health emergency in Thailand because the pollution is wide spreading all over the country in a different time and it affects health in a both acute and chronic manner. The pollution in Thailand is becoming more severe and prolonged than in the past. Moreover, it is under the public concern. Hence,…[Read more]

Health informatics can improve the work of surveillance and response in several ways. Firstly, health informatics will improve planning and system design. Data collection could capture all concerned disease or symptoms by using automated data collection. Secondly, not only improving hospital information but the interoperability also integrates the…[Read more]

Inaccurate data reported to the surveillance system could lead the policymaker to the wrong decision making because the wrong information will convince the policymaker to spend too much or too small budget for those specific diseases. Not only the high-level personnel would misunderstand but local epidemiological staff would also pay less…[Read more]