Kevin Zam

Thanks for sharing the challenges and difficulties of EWARS system.

1.Have you ever observed a health informatics project in your (other) organization? Please provide a brief introduction.
While I worked with National AIDS Program of Myanmar, I had a chance to participate in collecting HIV Sentinel Surveillance (HSS) Survey. As it was a paper-based surveillance, it was costly in terms of paper, labor and space for…[Read more]

Hi Ma Wah Wah,
This is a serious case, and you explained it well. The Yale New Haven Health System breach shows how network hacking can put millions of patients’ personal data at risk and damage an organization’s trust and reputation.
To prevent future breaches, YNHHS and other health systems should use stronger network protections (like fir…[Read more]

Dear Phyoe,
Good summary of the Blue Shield case. It shows how even unintentional mistakes, like misconfiguration, can expose millions of people’s sensitive health information. This kind of incident hurts both patients’ trust and the company’s reputation. To prevent this in the future, Blue Shield and other organizations should do regular audit…[Read more]

Hi Ko Aung,
Thanks for sharing an interesting case study. Your report clearly shows that the CHS breach was not just a technical failure but also a lesson in organizational preparedness. With proper patch management, real-time monitoring, and stronger security culture, such a breach could have been avoided. This case remains a reminder that…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. In my opionions, an easiest breach would happen without the need to send phishing emails if the employee lost the notebook where his/her passwords were noted down (the physical access). I had seen some elderlys who wrote down their pin numbers nearest to their gadgets or credit cards.

Thanks for sharing. I learn more about cyber security.

Possible Ways of Cyber Attack
An attacker might try to get physical access to a device, server, or a password book, because many users leave computers unlocked, save passwords in their browsers, or write passwords on paper.
He/she might also try reused, simple, default, or demographic-based passwords (like names, birthdays, or ID numbers) since…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing. I agree that in the long-term or more IT staff and resource, PaaS might be more suitable than SaaS for the hospital.

Thanks for your sharing. However, I am concerned to used PaaS as the hospital only have one IT staff which might over workload for him compared to using SaaS (buying and using cloud-based software).

1. Why choose a cloud server instead of a physical server?
Lower cost – No need to buy expensive hardware and maintain a server room. We only pay for what we use.
Less IT workload – Our one IT officer cannot handle server setup, maintenance, and security. The cloud provider will manage those.
Scalability – If more patients use the system in the f…[Read more]

Dear Jenny,
Thanks for sharing what your government is doing. I am impressed by your MoH action on reaching out not only the government facilities but also the private physicians and facilities for notification and control of Tuberculosis. I hope we, Myanmar can do such system too.

Knowledge and skills in health informatics are very important for outbreak detection, response, and control. By using health informatics, data can be collected, stored, and analyzed quickly, which helps health workers to detect unusual patterns of disease.
One of my experiences of telehealth during the COVID-19 outbreak in Myanmar was volunteering…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing your experiences. I think most of us need the computer science knowledge as most of us came for medicine background. However, if we could learn the basic of computer science from this course, I believe we will thrive well.

With academic background of Medicine and community development, to improve in Health informatics, I think that I need all that this course can deliever such as GIS, Web and Mobile App, Data Visualization, Ai in healthcare as well as all the core subjects in the course.
Even though I had experiences using FUCHIA of MSF, QGIS, DHIS2, RHC-LS and some…[Read more]

I learned from your response that in Myanmar, we could use this hybrid approach considering unstable internet and frequent electricity cuts. Thanks a lot for sharing.

If I were an executive or director of a hospital, I would plan to move the hospital’s information system to cloud computing. Considering the challenges of poor electricity and internet connection, I would prefer a hybrid colud model with a solar and generator backup system. The reasons for choosing this option, are
1. Any sensitive data of p…[Read more]

Hello Ajarns and Colleagues,
I am Dr. Zam Lian Kham and a Chin (Zomi) ethnic of Myanmar. You can call me “Kevin”. I graduated M.B.,B.S from University of Medicine 2, Yangon and had working experiences of nearly a decade.
My passion for health informatics grew while I worked as health system strengthening officer of Chin State and I hope to learn…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing your experience. How did you know phishing email before so that you did not click the link? you got computer training from your work (Bank?)?