Report on the E-Health Symposium

The College of Information Technology UNITEN is proudly present you with e-Health symposium. Scheduled on 26th June 2013, this symposium targets to bring together the varied community of researches on e-Health to show case their works, expertise and ideas.

This one day event was held at College of IT included keynote sessions by four distinguish keynote speakers from international and national healthcare organizations. The symposium feature a comprehensive tracks to e-Health topics that was interesting, with track sessions to help created a customized agenda based on your role, experience level and key focus.

E-Health is the transfer of health resources and health care by electronic means. It encompasses three main areas:

• Delivery of health information, health professionals and health consumers through the internet and telecommunications.
• Using the power of IT and e-commerce to improve public health services. Such as, through education and training of health workers.
• Usage of e-commerce and e-business practices in health systems management .

E-Health gave a lot of benefits to health related matter. But, Global Health faces 4 current challenges which is achieving universal coverage, sustainable health financing, efficiency in use of resources and effective mix of chronic diseases. The resolutions by the 58th World health Assembly is:

• Establishment of prepayment scheme.
• Risk sharing among population,
• Avoidance of Catastrophic Health Expenditure
• Adequate and equitable distribution of health resources 
• Plan for Universal Coverage

By means of Universal Coverage is securing access by all citizens to appropriate pro-motive, preventative, curative, and rehabilitation services at an affordable cost. There also got obstacle in Universal Coverage that is raised in health cost, emerging and re-emerging new diseases, increasing prevalence  of chronic diseases, lack of sustainable health financing system and inadequate information for decision making. But, the realities is that e-Health projects are costly. Many projects failed to be up scaled.

So, what is Free Open-Source Software? It stands for FOSS. As the name suggest, users have the rights to change and improve its design through the source code. It is fairly attractive because of it's low cost, flexible, vendor neutral and public domain.

Conclusion is that FOSS offer a potential solution to enhance ICT use in healthcare system. That was the official opening by Professor Dr. Syed Aljunid. 

End of Introduction

Moving on to the main point, which is a topic about MyHDW.

MyHDW which means is Malaysia Health Data Warehouse. It is a trusted source of comprehensive healthcare data structure for query and analysis.

Data Warehouse vs. Data centre

• Data centre is a facility house computer system and associated components.
• Data warehouse is a repository of an organisations electronically stored data or to facilitate reporting and analysis
• Data marts is a subset of an organisational data store or can defined as an oriented to a specific purpose to support business needs.

Health Information Data Warehouse: ISO definition:

• Grouping of data accessible by a single data management system.
• Possibly of diverse sources, pertaining to a health system or subsystem.
• Enabling secondary data analysis for questions relevant to understand the functioning of that health system.
• Supporting proper maintenance and improvement of that health system.

Standard Information for health

Malaysia Health Data Warehouse(MyHDW) goal is dissemination of truthful health information and evidence based decision making. Interoperability which means the ability of two or more system or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged. And it host computer for:

• EHRS
• Easy development and deployment of interfaces.
• Reduction of costs 

Appreciation 

In conclusion, ICT is a significant component to the health system. 

1st Group Discussion Answers

 Travel Agency = Green Airlines

1. Relation to our Green Airlines :

• Buyers(bargaining power) - they have the power to follow our price or go to other agency that give a better price than our own.
• Suppliers(bargaining power) - the supplier will increase the price for the raw materials based on the economic situation in the country. So with that, our agency have to follow their price for better quality and services. 
• Competitors(Rivalry) - They will give a pressure or challenges to our agency by their offered service, quality, and price.
• Substitutes - Our planning management and working plan structure will be copied by other agency in order to get more profit and volume of the customers.
• New Entrance - The new born agency will affect our company's profit by making more promotions, and the customer curiosity in order to get a better place and ranking.

2. Competitive advantage by developing alliances :

• Alliances with Hotel, Transportation and Banking services.
• 3 in 1 package: Hotel(free breakfast and packaging services), free transportation for senior citizens to any places until reach 10 km then it will charge with low rates.
• Purchasing with CIMB credit card will give the customers a RM 10 rebate.

3. Element of uniqueness :

• 100th customer will get two free tickets for a trip to New Zealand.
• Separate section for senior citizens in the airplane with more warming services and better hospitality. 

 

1st Group Discussion Questions

You are the owner of a Travel Agency.

1. Discuss Porter’s 5 Forces in relation to your business.
2. Discuss how do you plan to develop alliances in order to achieve competitive advantage.
3. Discuss how do you plan to add the element of uniqueness in order to achieve competitive advantage.

Introduction Of This Group Awesome Members

This is me when i'm age 18.. ^^

Sup guys, nice to meet you. I'm gonna keep this short. The name given Jaya Sena A/L Gauthama Dass. ID number is IS091932. I'm from Kedah Darul Aman. You guys can call me Jaya or Sena, either ways is fine. So, have fun. ^(o.o)^

I'm so cool..

Hi, my name is Muhammad Muhaimin B. M. Salih. Student ID  is IS091947. You guys can call me Amin. I'm a very simple person. I'm also a mommy's boy. LoL. I don't care what u guys think about me. From Klang, Selangor. Remember, just be positive and success is not a destination but it is a journey.

Green Avenger

Hello everyone, the name given is AHMAD ZAFIERY B. JAMAL. Student ID is IS092038. From Taiping, Perak. A nice person and have a great personality. Can call me Zaff, and nice to meet you all.