Prasad Ranatunga
Also known as: PEKB Ranatunga, P.E.K.B. Ranatunga, P. Ranatunga
Provincial Departmental Health Services - North-western Province, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine University of Colombo, University of Southampton
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About
I hold an MD in Health Informatics from the University of Colombo and was a Digital Health Fellow at Clinical Informatics Research Unit of the University of Southampton, UK.
I completed my MSc in Biomedical Informatics in 2012 and MD in health Informatics in 2019 with research work involving automated genome annotation and BYOD use in healthcare settings respectively. I have presented conference papers and made publications in peer review journals on many occasions on digital health-related themes.
I was the Chairman of the Expert Committee on eHealth Conference Organization of the Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka until 2020 January, which organises conferences annually with international participation in digital health including, Digital Health Week 2018, Commonwealth Medical Association 24th Triennial Conference 2016 and eHealth Asia 2015.
I am the key person in transforming the decade-old hospital information management system - a legacy system - in the third-largest hospital in Sri Lanka, The Teaching Hospital - Kurunegala, to a newly built hospital information system.
Employment
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Provincial Departmental Health Services - North-western Province Health Informatician2021 - Present
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Postgraduate Institute of Medicine University of Colombo Senior Registrar in Health Informatics (Post-MD training)2019 - 2021
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University of Colombo Postgraduate Institute of Medicine Registrar in Health Informatics (MD trainee)2017 - 2019
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Teaching Hospital Kurunegala Medical Officer - Health Information2012 - 2017
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University of Colombo Postgraduate Institute of Medicine MSc trainee in Biomedical Informatics2010 - 2012
Education
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University of Southampton MD Health Informatics2020 - 2021
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University of Colombo Postgraduate Institute of Medicine MD Health Informatics2017 - Present
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Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo MSc Biomedical Informatics2010 - 2012
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University of Sri Jayewardenepura Faculty of Medical Sciences MBBS? - 2002
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (26)
- Evaluating Research Ethics Committees Using a Newly Developed Assessment Tool: Experience from Sri Lanka Save
- Telehealth and Precision Prevention: Bridging the Gap for Individualised Health Strategies. Save
- Telehealth as a Component of One Health: a Position Paper Save
- Challenges and Advances towards Reformulating Processed Foods to Contain Low Salt in Sri Lanka Save
- Salt and Health: public awareness, attitudes, and practices in Sri Lanka to inform a behaviour change communication campaign to reduce dietary salt Save
- Telehealth as a Means of Enabling Health Equity Save
- Data management during a pandemic: proposing a minimal data set and an open database using COVID-19 experience Save
- Implications for trauma system development in a low- and middle-income country: the Sri Lanka 2019 Easter Sunday terrorist attack Save
- Telehealth and the COVID-19 Pandemic: International Perspectives and a Health Systems Framework for Telehealth Implementation to Support Critical Response Save
- Letter Regarding: A Nationwide Analysis of Popliteal Vascular Injuries and Outcomes by Hospital Teaching Status Save