Health Information Privacy and Security (November 8, 2021)
Research Trends in Health IT
1. Research Trends
in Health IT
Nawanan Theera-Ampornpunt, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Community Medicine,
Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University
November 27, 2015
SlideShare.net/Nawanan1
2. Outline
• Objective of this Presentation
• Thailand’s eHealth Situation
• Research Trends & Research Agenda
for Thailand’s eHealth
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3. Objective of this Presentation
• To report on status & progress of
Thailand’s eHealth to date
• To propose an initial set of research
agenda/trends for Thailand’s eHealth
in various areas, and listen to
comments
• This is NOT a comprehensive list, nor
a full concept paper for a study
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10. Silo-type systems
Little integration and interoperability
Mostly aim for administration and management
40% of work-hours spent on managing reports and
documents
Lack of national leadership and governance body
Inadequate HIS foundations development
Slide adapted from: Boonchai Kijsanayotin
Thailand’s eHealth Situation
28. eHealth Leadership & Governance
•2015 Update
▫ Change in Minister of Public Health
▫ Still no leadership & national body on eHealth yet..
28 Image Source: http://www.hfocus.org/content/2015/08/10692
29. eHealth Leadership & Governance
•2015 Update
▫ Change in Economics Deputy
Prime Minister
▫ Change in Minister of ICT
▫ MICT’s Digital Economy Policy
continued but not central to
economic policy?
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Image Sources: http://thaipublica.org/2015/08/somkid-economic-policy-1/
http://www.prachachat.net/news_detail.php?newsid=1440056161
31. eHealth Leadership & Governance In The News
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http://www.hfocus.org/content/2015/10/11077
32. First Workshop on eHealth
18 Mar 2015
32 TMI Newsletter (Mar-Apr 2015)
33. Leadership & Governance
• Review Studies
▫ What are eHealth leadership & governance structures of
other countries (with focus on those with eHealth
success and key Asia-Pacific countries)?
▫ Describing evolution of Thailand’s eHealth leadership &
governance so far + critical analysis & lessons learned
• Original Research
▫ How stakeholders think of the current & future eHealth
governance structures?
▫ Evaluation of existing governance structure’s outcomes
▫ eHealth as enablers/facilitators & barriers of other
health programs
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41. Strategies & Investment
• Policy Research & Development
▫ Developing national eHealth
roadmap/strategies/master plan
▫ eHealth policy development as part of Digital
Economy policy
▫ Lessons learned from the process of policy
development (e.g. lessons on applying WHO-ITU
eHealth Strategy Toolkit)
• IT Research & Development
▫ Enterprise architecture for Thailand’s eHealth
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42. Strategies & Investment
• Policy Research & Development
▫ Optimal model for national data clearing house
(NDCH)’s structure, policy & process
• Original Research
▫ Viewpoints & concerns of stakeholders on
establishment of national data clearing house
• IT Research & Development
▫ Designing systems architecture for NDCH
▫ Designing NDCH’s data model for data warehouse & big
data analytics
▫ Developing data standards for NDCH data exchange
• Other research depending on national roadmap
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47. Infrastructure for eHealth
• Policy Research & Development
▫ Digital Economy’s IT infrastructure development
▫ Critical analysis of MOPH provincial data centers
▫ Design of architecture for nationwide health
information exchange
• Original Research
▫ Status of “Digital divide” of broadband/telecom
infrastructure for health
▫ New health IT adoption study (status, trends &
associated factors)
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51. Thai Health Information Standards
Standards National
1. Core data set standards 43+7 files standards
2. Semantic standards Personal ID, Provider ID
ICD 10 TM, ICD 9 CM,
TMT, LOINC
3. Syntactic standards X
4. Security and privacy standards X
Standards & Interoperability
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52. Standards & Interoperability
• Policy Research & Development
▫ Translating WHA resolution to Thailand’s roadmap: policy
recommendation
• IT Research & Development
▫ Developing data standards for various key use cases
Clinical Documentation
Referrals
Medication Management
Claims & Reimbursements
Emergency Information Access
Security & Privacy
Biosurveillance / outbreak control
Patient’s data sharing
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57. Services & Applications
• Policy Research & Development
▫ Consolidating eHealth applications: policy
recommendation
▫ Needs assessment/market research/
environmental scan of domestic health IT market
▫ Best practices of healthcare IT management
• IT Research & Development
▫ Designing & developing applications for various
programs
▫ Usability & user interface designs of health IT
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58. Services & Applications
• Original Research
▫ Health IT attitudes & use behaviors of clinicians
▫ Evaluation studies of health IT in various types and settings
(e.g. outcomes of EHR, computerized order entry & PACS in
hospitals)
▫ Factors of successful health IT implementation
▫ Sociotechnical/people & organizational issues of health IT
▫ Stakeholder perspectives on health IT implementation
▫ Outcomes of Health IT Quality Framework Pilot Project
▫ Lessons learned by various approaches of health IT
implementation in Thai hospitals
▫ Lessons learned/evaluation of various software development
processes in health care
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59. Services & Applications
• Original Research
▫ Consumer attitudes & behaviors
Information needs & IT use patterns
Health literacy & information literacy
Social media for consumer health & mHealth
Privacy & security awareness & practices
▫ Evaluation of consumer-focused health IT
applications (e.g. personal health records)
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66. Legislation, Policy & Compliance
• Review Studies
▫ Current laws related to eHealth & critical analysis
• Policy Research & Development
▫ Proper legislation to protect health information
privacy & facilitate health IT adoption/exchange
▫ Impact assessment of new ICT laws
▫ Guidelines for security & privacy best practices in
health care
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68. Otero PD, Perrin C, Geissbuhler A, Cheung NT, Theera-Ampornpunt N, Lun KC.
Informatics education in low resource settings. In: Berner ES, editor. Informatics
education in healthcare: lessons learned. London: Springer; 2014. p. 197-222.
Informatics Programs in Thailand
69. Otero PD, Perrin C, Geissbuhler A, Cheung NT, Theera-Ampornpunt N, Lun KC.
Informatics education in low resource settings. In: Berner ES, editor. Informatics
education in healthcare: lessons learned. London: Springer; 2014. p. 197-222.
Informatics Programs in Thailand
70. Otero PD, Perrin C, Geissbuhler A, Cheung NT, Theera-Ampornpunt N, Lun KC (2014).
Informatics Programs in Thailand
71. Workforce
• Review Studies
▫ Update on current academic programs on health
informatics
▫ Review of informatics competencies from other
countries
• Policy Research & Development
▫ Developing Thailand’s informatics competencies
Informatics professionals in various roles
Doctors & other health professionals
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72. Workforce
• Original Research
▫ Needs assessment of Thailand’s health informatics
workforce and workforce in specific roles
▫ Attitudes of Thai health informatics professionals
on career facilitators and barriers
▫ Evaluation/lessons learned of academic programs
in health informatics in Thailand
▫ Evaluation of e-learning methods for health
professional education
▫ Attitudes, use behaviors & evaluation of IT among
health professional students
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73. Workforce
• Informatics Research & Development / Projects
▫ Informatics curriculum content development
▫ Identifying roles of MOOC in health informatics
education
▫ First Thai textbook in health informatics
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74. Summary
• There is a dearth of health informatics research in
Thailand
• There are various research topics that are
important to Thailand’s eHealth
• Organizing topics by eHealth components is
useful (but may supplement by other structures)
• Publishing research agenda may facilitate more
research in this field & may also influence
funding agencies
• Next steps: prioritizing research agenda,
developing teams & networks to conduct research
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