Health Information Privacy and Security (November 8, 2021)
Research Agenda for Thailand's eHealth
1. Research Agenda
for Thailand’s eHealth
Department of Community Medicine Seminar,
Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University
Nawanan Theera-Ampornpunt, M.D., Ph.D.
August 19, 2015
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2. Outline
• Objective of this Presentation
• Recap on Last Year’s Talk
• Toward Research Agenda for
Thailand’s eHealth
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3. Objective of this Presentation
• To report on status & progress of
Thailand’s eHealth since last year’s
talk
• To propose an initial set of research
agenda 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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4. ความเดิมตอนที่แล้ว (Recap)
• Health & Health Information
• Health IT & eHealth
• Health Informatics as a Discipline
• Thailand’s eHealth Situation
• Current Forces
• Shaping the Future
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11. Use of information and communications technology
(ICT) in health & healthcare settings
Source: The Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of
Health and Human Service, USA
Slide adapted from: Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin
Health IT
12. Use of information and communications technology
(ICT) for health; Including
• Treating patients
• Conducting research
• Educating the health workforce
• Tracking diseases
• Monitoring public health.
Sources: 1) WHO Global Observatory of eHealth (GOe) (www.who.int/goe)
2) World Health Assembly, 2005. Resolution WHA58.28
Slide adapted from: Mark Landry, WHO WPRO & Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin
eHealth
21. eHealth in Thailand: The current status. Stud Health Technol Inform
2010;160:376–80, Presented at MedInfo2010 South Africa
Thailand’s eHealth: 2010
22. Slide adapted from: Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin
Thailand: Unbalanced Development
23. eHealth Applications
Enabling Policies &
Strategies
Foundation Policies
& Strategies
• Services
• Applications
• Software
• Standards &
Interoperability
• Capability Building
• Leadership &
Governance
• Legislation & Policy
• Strategy & Investment
• Infrastructure
Slide adapted from: Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin
eHealth Development Model
24. Slide adapted from: Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin
Thailand’s eHealth Development
25. 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
27. International
• Technology Trends
• Standards & Interoperability Trends
• eHealth Successes & Failures
▫ UK NHS
▫ US Meaningful Use
▫ Nordic Countries
• International eHealth Networks
▫ International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
▫ American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
▫ Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN)
Current Forces
28. URGES Member States:
(1) to consider, as appropriate, options to collaborate with
relevant stakeholders, including national authorities, relevant ministries,
health care providers, and academic institutions, in order to draw up a
road map for implementation of ehealth and health data standards at
national and subnational levels;
(2) to consider developing, as appropriate, policies and
legislative mechanisms linked to an overall national eHealth strategy, in
order to ensure compliance in the adoption of ehealth and health data
standards by the public and private sectors, as appropriate, and the
donor community, as well as to ensure the privacy of personal clinical
data;
http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA66/A66_R24-en.pdf
WHA Resolution 66.24 (2013) on eHealth
Standardization & Interoperability
29. (3) to consider ways for ministries of health and public
health authorities to work with their national representatives
on the ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee in order to
coordinate national positions towards the delegation,
governance and operation of health-related global top-level
domain names in all languages, including “.health”, in the
interest of public health;
http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA66/A66_R24-en.pdf
WHA Resolution 66.24 (2013) on eHealth
Standardization & Interoperability
30. Domestic
• Thailand’s Health Insurance Trends
• Increased Hospital IT Adoption
• Demands for Data & Information Exchange in
Thailand’s Healthcare
• Thailand’s e-Transaction Trends
• Consumer IT Behavior Trends
Current Forces
41. Informatics Year in Review
• Origin: American Medical Informatics
Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium
• Born: October, 2005
• Father: Daniel R. Masys, MD
Formerly at Vanderbilt University
Now at University of Washington
• Modeled on: American College of Physicians
“Update” sessions
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42. Informatics Year in Review
• Session at every AMIA
Annual Symposium since
2005
• To review notable
publications and events in
informatics in the past year
AMIA 2011
Flickr: AMIAInformatix
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43. Informatics Year in Review: Expansion
• Original “Informatics Year in Review” in its 10th
year at AMIA 2014 (Dr. Bill Hersh takes over)
• AMIA Clinical Research Informatics
(CRI) Year in Review, since 2012 (Dr. Peter Embi)
• HIMSS Nursing Informatics Year in Review,
since 2012
• AMIA Public & Global Health Informatics
Year in Reviews, since 2012
• AMIA Informatics in the Media
Year in Review, since 2013
(Dr. Danny Sands)
http://yir.drdannysands.com/
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44. Informatics Year in Review: Expansion
44 http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/
45. Research Agenda by Components
WHO ITU. National eHealth strategy toolkit. Geneva, Switzerland: 2012.
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47. • New minister & deputy minister of public health
with health systems & academic mindset
• Supportive of eHealth initiatives
Prof. Rajata Rajatanavin, M.D.
Minister of Public Health
Outgoing Mahidol University President
Dr. Somsak Chunharas, M.D.
Deputy Minister of Public Health
New MoPH Leadership:
Renewed Hope for eHealth?
60. Inaugural Meeting on eHealth
• eHealth thought leaders invited to talk with Deputy
Minister of Public Health Dr. Somsak on Oct 10, 2014
• eHealth roadmap & action plan TBD in next meetings
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61. Frst Workshop on eHealth
18 Mar 2015
61 TMI Newsletter (Mar-Apr 2015)
62. 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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70. 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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71. 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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76. 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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80. 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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81. 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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86. 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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87. 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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88. 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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95. 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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102. MU Faculty of Tropical Medicine
Biomedical & Health Informatics Master
• Graduated first batch of students in early 2014
• Second batch students admitted & enrolled in
August 2014
Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University102
104. TMI Informatics Education SIG
• In January 2013, TMI approved establishment of
the “Biomedical and Health Informatics
Education Special Interest Group” within TMI
(BHI-ED-SIG)
• Executive Committee
1. นพ.ดาวฤกษ์ สินธุวณิชย์ ที่ปรึกษา
2. ดร.นพ.บุญชัย กิจสนาโยธิน ประธาน (Chair)
3. ดร.นพ.นวนรรน ธีระอัมพรพันธุ์ รองประธาน (Vice Chair)
4. รศ.ทญ.ดร.ศิริวรรณ สืบนุการณ์ กรรมการ
5. ผศ.ภก.ดร.อนุชัย ธีระเรืองไชยศรี กรรมการ
6. ดร.นพ.บดินทร์ ทรัพย์สมบูรณ์ กรรมการ
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105. 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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106. 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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107. 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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108. 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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