Plenary Lecture

Health Informatics in Next Generation Health Care

Associate Professor Dechavudh Nityasuddhi
Department of Biostatistics,
Faculty of Public Health Mahidol University,
Thailand
E-mail: phdnt@mahidol.ac.th

Abstract: Due to the problem of unequal in health care for the people who live far away from the city center and unutilized health personnel to distribute to the rural area, we need Health Informatics to solve this problems. The Health Informatics here is cover for a lot of disciplines technology, mathematical model, system simulation, decision support system, cognitive science, biostatistics, epidemiology, computer networking , computer graphic and delivery health care. At the same time we need the discipline of public health area, nutrition, health education, public health nursing, environmental health, occupational health, family health, public health administration, sanitary engineering, microbiology and parasitology.
We combined all of these disciplines to do screening test for discriminate the high risk group from the low risk group. We treats the high risk group with special care. And at the same time we give some good advices of individual health care and make a surveillance system for the low risk group. Some group of people need to keep in touch with the medical doctor all the time, we can have online network technology to report the changing sign from the patient body to his medical doctor immediately.
This talk will discuss the opportunities and challenges in next generation health care, and present research results and future research directions in Health Informatics.

 

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Dechavudh Nityasuddhi graduated in Mathematics from Chiengmai Univeristy, Chiengmai in 1972, received the first Master Degree in Biostatistics from the Mahidol University, Bangkok in 1975; the second Master Degree in Medical Statistics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London in 1982; the third Master Degree in Computer Sciences from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok in 1996; the Ph.D. in Statistics from the National Institute of Development Administration, Bangkok in 2003. He is full university associate professor and Head of Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University. He has done the research about the database system and the information system for self defense villages on the territory of Thailand, for cost-benefit analysis of setup cost of plastic industry, for city of metropolitan, for yearly physical examination and risk assessment of the oil company employee, for Automatic Computerized Emergency Response System for Chemical Substance Data Safety and for the Eye-Care Screening and Follow up for School Age Students under the Rajaprachanukrao Foundation.
His present areas of research activity are: Dynamic System Simulation, Informative Database System, Multivariate Analysis, EM algorithm and Expert system. He has published one book, various scientific journals and international conference proceedings.