Alex Zayar Phyo Aung

I have to maintain confidentiality of patient information. But will discuss/ advocate with the patient to disclose the situation with partner as it might become a risk. In private sector, disclosing of that individual patient information without consent will make huge impact by damaging company/ organization reputation and financial loss.

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Let me share the information from the previous scenario which was failed.
Awareness: The organization itself is not aware on the system thinking approach which make vertical promotion of the system. Desire: Each separate team want to focus only on their works and functions. Knowledge: Limited knowledge on the systematization and system thinking…[Read more]

I observed one supply chain system application which was utilized by a health care organization. The system was failed due to the design of the system which was focused only on medical commodities and pharmacy management. Logistic system was not integrated into the whole supply chain system which made it difficult for logistics team to manage…[Read more]

For Health Service Provision Level
In low-resource settings, there is a lack of a digital clinical decision support system. However, maintaining a longitudinal record of patient information in either a patient booklet or logbook could enhance clinical decision-making, particularly for non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

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If healthcare facilities do not utilize the ICD standard, there will be a lack of standardization in disease diagnoses. From a health system perspective, this data inconsistency and the absence of standardized case definitions could result in fragmented data aggregation for vital statistics for policy making, outbreak disease surveillance and…[Read more]

What do you think about this finding?
This article presents evidence on the challenges of EHR utilization. However, there appears to be potential researcher bias in the literature review, and the scoping review may lack a critical appraisal. As a result, the study primarily focuses on the negative aspects of various EMR systems. A systematic…[Read more]

My own definition of eHealth is a comprehensive digital or electronic healthcare system designed to support health promotion, disease prevention, and health protection. The eHealth system should operate across three layers of the public health system: not only enhancing individual and community health but also assisting healthcare providers in…[Read more]

1) Example of big data
If we want to review the big data from V characteristics, let me share the Myanmar Demographic Health Survey 2015-2016 data as big data of Myanmar. Over 13,000 households including 17,000 + individuals were interviewed to capture a wide range of socio demographic characteristics, fertility rate, data for composite coverage…[Read more]

1) Observation of HIS project in the organization and use of the system
I observed 2 levels of HIS applications and project in the local health system of the border areas. The HIS applications are developed based on the 2 level of perspectives, from provider + client perspective and the other one is from heath system perspective. The first one is…[Read more]

The preventive measure you mentioned is quite comprehensive. I can learn a lot on the how to prevent DDoS attack in real world scenerios.

Awarenees raising on phishing and scamming, training on digital security will help to improve digital security literacy of the employees as you mentioned. In addition to this, regular vulnerability assessement of the system and risk migitaion plan development should also be institutionalized as a prevent measure.

I totally agree with you to imrpove security measures like 2 factors authentication, regular security audit and continuous monitoring of the system might be effective way to prvent future secruity breach like this one.

I will choose cloud server and PaaS based on my current resource, which is just 1 IT staff.
1) Cloud server will work on this work.
Configuration might not take time for cloud servers. Most cloud provider provide service on the instant configuration work.
No need to take time to set up the server, just pay the subscription fees and we can…[Read more]

Since there are many digital security threads, I would like to mention some methods that are mostly used by attackers as follows.

1) Phishing
Attacker faked themself as a legitimate one to receive valuable information like bank account information, digital login credentials, and demographic and health information. In recent years, attackers used…[Read more]

I led the development of a disease surveillance system application capable of monitoring, surveillance and reporting disease outbreaks, including COVID-19, vaccine preventable diseases and communicable diseases. This native Android application was integrated as a modular component under the COVID-19 vaccination system and is widely used by various…[Read more]

Leadership and management in public health skills will play pivotable role in establishing a robust Health Information System (HIS) within the local health system. Such a system would not only promote standardization but also facilitate interoperability between various subsystems, including the Human Resource Information System,…[Read more]

This is Alex, a medical doctor working as a Director of MEL and Health Systems Strengthening. I hold a master degree in public health and this is my second master degree specialized in health information system development. My areas of interest in this program include health information system architecture, data modeling, machine learning, and…[Read more]