Dr.Watcharee Arunsodsai

Again the same as previous case scenario, even I are in charge of national database collecting individual data in malaria among local and migrant patients, I could not give the individual data in details without the fundamental principle of information privacy and disposition. This is miss-conduct of the regulation for data protection in general…[Read more]

For the first question, If I were a health information professional, I should not tell my friend. This is miss-conduct of the regulation for data protection in general principle of data integrity and confidentiality. As Other friends said that during the diagnosis and treatment of HIV infected patients, the doctor should discuss with patients in…[Read more]

About the eHIS system, our organization tries to have appropriate change management. However, as I said before that during development of the system, we involved just only the hospital administrative board but did not involved with people from other facilities such as the nurses, phramcists, lab technicians, and also medical students and…[Read more]

My hospital board have used both EMR and paper-based record from the vendor in Thailand. We did not develop ourselves. Despite this EMR have been developed, the hospital staff could not utilize it efficiently. Previously, staff in my hospital had used the electronic medical record merely for OPD patient for each visit registration, drug…[Read more]

This eHealth project is benefit for the patient for their cost through self screening, and increase the active case to get the treatment. The patient also get the satisfaction for the privacy and confidentility as they can reduce the stigma that is one of the problem of TB management. I agree with Mvidhayagorn that you could integrate your eHealth…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing your TB project. This eHealth project could benefit more in term of reducing the cost of the treatment for the patient who would like to continue their treatment across the border. They can save time, cost and can improve the satisfaction and outcome of the treatment. Do you have the integrated information of the adverse…[Read more]

In my hospital, we have a hospital information system (HIS) that can alert like a pop-up in the work flow in prescription and alert or reminder in laboratory results. As an example of Oseltamivir for pediatrician, it will show he pop-up for dosage for body weight, and others fr drug-drug interaction, over prescription for some drugs but not for…[Read more]

In my hospital, we have a hospital information system (HIS) that can alert like a pop-up in the work flow in prescription and alert or reminder in laboratory results. As an example of Oseltamivir for pediatrician, it will show he pop-up for dosage for body weight, and others fr drug-drug interaction, over prescription for some drugs but not for…[Read more]

I also agree with Weerawan and others. ICD coding system is the international classification of diseases established by World Health Organization for reporting diseases and health conditions. It is the diagnostic classification aimed for local and national planning, public health policy, national resourcing assessment, and population research…[Read more]

As a clinician, I totally agree with these findings. In the old days, clinician writes down what they want to describe for each patient freely in the blank paper including the provisional diagnosis which may be not categorized into the diagnosis code . Moreover, most clinician can not remember the exact clinical diagnosis code. Writing down in the…[Read more]

According to a paper by Shaw T, et al. on “What is eHealth (6)?”, there are several definitions that can explain “eHealth”. In your opinion, what should be a definition of eHealth?

From Shaw T, et al.’s study, eHealth is the modern field in the intersection of medical informatics, public health and business, referring to health services and infor…[Read more]

1. Can you give an example of data that you think it could be considered as “Big Data”?

Example of Big Data that I could consider in real life is Big Data of Banking sectors and social media. But if we are talking about Public Health Informatics, in which Big Data could be Electronic Health Records.

2. What are the characteristics of the dat…[Read more]

1. Have you ever observed a health informatics project in your (other) organization? Please provide a brief introduction.
I have ever used the GIS.BIOPHICS.org for malaria surveillance report for my research work. The GIS map will report the malaria positive cases passively after the patient visited the malaria clinic or the hospitals. The data…[Read more]

Software misconfiguration should be tested for the security setting before release. The databases all ship with default accounts, and when you install applications on your database, they install default accounts, too. All those default accounts have default passwords, and all those default passwords are easy to find on the Internet. So if you…[Read more]

Software should be tested for the security setting before release. The databases all ship with default accounts, and when you install applications on your database, they install default accounts, too. All those default accounts have default passwords, and all those default passwords are easy to find on the Internet. So if you leave them in place,…[Read more]

Singapore’s story is about the hackers’ access to personal information in the health records in government SingHealth.

The method to protect this data breach attack by the hackers may include

1. Traing the staff to use strong, secure passwords, use a complex and unique password for each of their online accounts.
2. Setting the alerting sys…[Read more]

1. Why would you choose cloud server, rather than physical server?
1.1 Increased Security and privacy
Cloud server provides advanced, high-level security features, routine backups and privacy of the patients’ data, providing greater data security than that of an physical server. Cloud server can be easier for upgrading and maintenance.
1.2…[Read more]

Hi Pyae: Your job as a Program Officer of OpenMRS at the national program is impressive and I think that your operational knowledge is even more robust after you finish this course.

If we would like to design an enterprise architecture of health information system among different hospitals within my province, the persons who should involve in the designing process are as following:
1. The provincial health officers as the authority leaders who will gather all stake holders for the meeting and designing EA. This level require…[Read more]

An enterprise architecture is needed to be planned by the decision- maker level, all stake holders and builders. These require a large sum of budget and time consuming. In public health hospitals, there are already implemented health information systems which can be sharing to the ministry while can not be linked to each other. It seemed to be…[Read more]