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So What is eHealth Exactly?
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• eHealth is “the use of information and
communication technologies (ICT) for
health”
WHO’s Definition
Building foundations for eHealth: progress of Member States: report of the WHO Global
Observatory for eHealth. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2006
(www.who.int/goe/publications, accessed 14 May 2012).
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• The interdisciplinary field that studies and
pursues the effective uses of biomedical
data, information, and knowledge for
scientific inquiry, problem solving, and
decision making, motivated by efforts to
improve human health.
American Medical Informatics Association
http://www.amia.org/about-amia/science-informatics
Biomedical Informatics
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Basic Research
Applied Research
And Practice
Biomedical Informatics Methods,
Techniques, and Theories
Imaging
Informatics
Clinical
Informatics
Bioinformatics
Public Health
Informatics
Molecular and
Cellular
Processes
Tissues and
Organs
Individuals
(Patients)
Populations
And Society
Health Informatics
Adapted from American Medical Informatics Association
http://www.amia.org/about-amia/science-informatics
Health Informatics
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To treat & to
care for their
patients to their
best abilities,
given limited
time &
resources
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What Clinicians Want?
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A safe, effective care
that focus on us, the
patients, and our needs
What Patients Want?
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• Safety
• Timeliness
• Effectiveness
• Patient-Centeredness
• Efficiency
• Equity
Institute of Medicine, Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. Crossing the quality
chasm: a new health system for the 21st century. Washington, DC: National Academy
Press; 2001.
“Quality” of Care
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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
3. Syntactic standards X
4. Security and privacy standards X
Adapted from Boonchai Kijsanayotin
Standards & Interoperability
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WHO-ITU eHealth Components
WHO-ITU National eHealth Strategies Toolkit (2012); Thailand’s situation is unvalidated speaker’s opinion only.
Thailand?
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• Should focus on
– Strengthening enabling environment for eHealth
– Creating legal certainty
– Establishing policy context for delivering eHealth
services more broadly
– Identifying standards to be adopted to ensure
that building ever-larger vertical systems is
avoided
National Plan for “Developing &
Building Up” Countries
WHO-ITU National eHealth Strategies Toolkit (2012)
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A Good Quote from Hong Kong
• “Administrative data should be
the by-product of clinical and
operational data”
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An Example of Data Fragmentation
• Vaccination
–Clinician’s View
–Disease Control’s View
–Patient’s View
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• Health sector takes leading role on eHealth
• Have a shared, common eHealth vision that
addresses
– Policymakers
– Clinicians
– Public Health Workers
– Patients
– Purchasers
– Researchers
Summary
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• Take stock of what we have as the
baseline for eHealth
• Think about how information flows to
create value across continuum of health
care (“Enterprise Architecture”)
• Focus on high-value “use cases” such as
– Referral
– Drug Management
– Vaccination / Maternal & Child Health
Summary
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Calling All Dreamers...
Toward Thailand’s eHealth
“Dreamers need to stick together...
It's not programming, it's personal.”
‐‐ Tomorrowland