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We can use information technology in several steps in outbreak investigation. Firstly, we could develop the reporting system from peripheral level to the investigation team, for example, using a mobile application to send the abnormal event and locate it via GIS. Secondly, the investigation team should consider using the mobile application to…[Read more]

Highly importance: 13 Dangerous disease included plaque, smallpox, Crimean-Congo HF, West Nile fever, Yellow fever, Lass fever, Nipah virus disease, Marburg virus disease, Ebola virus disease, Hendra virus disease, SARS, MERS, XDR,-TB. Because these diseases have a high case fatality rate, high transmissibility, high public concern and some…[Read more]

I would like to improve hypertension surveillance due to a couple of reasons. Firstly, hypertension is associated with the highest morbidity of Thai people such as stroke or myocardial infarction. Secondly, current life behaviour can cause Thai people to have hypertension easy such as high sodium diet and lack of physical activity. We should focus…[Read more]

I do agree that the Department of Disease Control has been succeeded for communicable disease surveillance for decades and as a public health officer, we are familiar with R506 surveillance in the data collection through data utilization. We also used R506 surveillance to judge the program implementation and evaluate the effectiveness of the…[Read more]

This research could benefit the country thus this information should be provided to this research. However, we could protect the data privacy by encrypting the identification data such as name, citizen number and telephone number. In case, they need to contact the case, we should negotiate them to contact through the hospital instead of contact…[Read more]

As a health information professional, I should not tell my friend because I know this information accidentally during the research. Even though my friend might not know about it or already knew it, it is wrong to release the confidential information to others with out their consent. Also, telling this information is harm to the information’s owner…[Read more]

I had not been in the hospital during implementation though I assumed that the hospital board did not complete ADKAR model. Some high-level staff did not aware whether EMR in the hospital can reduce the redundancy of the work. They did not have an appropriate orientation to guide all staff to the new EMR system hence most of them did not aware why…[Read more]

Please give an example of a system in your organization (either successful or fail). What are main factors that make the system successful or failure (Data, Cost, Operation, Design, and People)?
I would like to use the electronic medical record system in my hospital as an example. My hospital board have purchased EMR from the biggest vendor in…[Read more]

In hospital EMR, we are using decision support system mostly in drug prescribing system. The system will give an alert for drug allergy, drug interaction, repeated drug prescribing and pregnancy caution. It is able to reduce the incidence of drug allergy, and undesired drug interaction. The factor of its usefulness is it is alerted during the…[Read more]

I agree with weerawan.hat that the reason why we use ICD-10 is we can share and compare health information between countries. Physician in each country or medical school would be trained in a different manner and give the diagnosis term differently even the patient have the same diagnosis. ICD-10 is the standard for diagnosis term which can be…[Read more]

Firstly, I agree with Mvidhyagorn that those who feel burnout do not satisfy what they are doing since they do not know the importance of their job. Especially, the frontline people who have multitasking in their routine job, they would burn out since they do not understand deeply why they have to put the data in electronical record rather than…[Read more]

I admire and agree with this literature that e-health could be 3 overlapping domains included 1.health in our hands, 2.interacting for health and 3. data enabling health. Because either of them cannot represent all of e-health picture. The stakeholders have better to ensure the safety and quality of health care by improving these 3 domains, at the…[Read more]

Facebook is the most obvious Bigdata in my opinion because it takes information about user’s demography, interesting and the like. Moreover, numbers of web-based application also allow us to use the Facebook account to sign in instead of sing up a new account, hence the Facebook could access user’s information wider. After that, a learning machine…[Read more]

There is a project called Detection and rapid response on the respiratory threat (DARRT) in Chiangmai province. It is the web-based application that able to retrieve the electronic health records from public hospitals in Chiangmai. Patients with the ICD-10 diagnosis-related of influenza-like illness which represent influenza-like syndrome will be…[Read more]

Also, we should set up the firewall for protecting a network and avoid using the system as administer authority.

I agree with Mvidhyagorn that the company should set the phishing email preventing system. In that system, the company should have a suspicious email reporting system so the system can learn a new phishing email source and prevent it in a timely manner. The organization should promote the cybersecurity policy and strengthening the user’s knowledge…[Read more]

1. Why would you choose the cloud server, rather than the physical server?
I would implement the project on the cloud server because of a couple of reasons. Firstly, the most important reason is the lack of IT staff, only IT staff could not develop the on-premises server effectively. The cloud services could bear the risk of maintaining better…[Read more]

There are several key persons in the province that should be included in the planning team. Firstly, at the provincial level, the provincial health office director who should be the head of the board. The IT staff who experienced in the electronic medical record in every platform in the province should be the chief technical officer. Also, the…[Read more]

There will be redundant and complicated information at a higher level if there is no enterprise architecture plan for an overall health information system. Firstly, the operational level need to input the information several times to different program depends on the program manager. Secondly, the higher level who collect the data might struggle…[Read more]

As a clinician and public health epidemiologist, I have had the background about health, statistics and research development methods. However, I would like to gain more experience in technology security and legislation, designing, monitoring and evaluation focusing on health informatics. Furthermore, I would like to learn about human development…[Read more]