Telemedicine in Hospital UKM(National University of Malaysia)

http://www.medicine.ukm.myhttp://www.hukm.ukm.my

Dr Badrulhisham Bahadzor

ICT Coordinator

Faculty of Medicine, UKM

Introduction

• Faculty of Medicine, UKM– Established 1972– Postgraduate program

(Master) started 1981– Clinical activities

centered at General Hospital Kuala Lumpur

Introduction

• Hospital UKM– Established 1st July 1997– Teaching hospital for Faculty of Medicine, UKM– Tertiary level, 1000-bed

Hospital UKM Network(Local Area Network)

HUKM Network Backbone

Servers

Backbone – Gigabit Ethernet 1000Mbps10 Base T - 2500 nodes8 MB - ISP

Servers

Clients

Internet

8 MB

firewall

PRIMARY CLINIC

UKM Campus

KCKL Campus

Network Infrastructure

(Fibre optic 34Mbps)

UKM NETWORK

(Wide Area Network)

6 MB

4 MB

Hospital UKM

UKM Main Campus

Leased Lines

4 MB

Network Infrastructure8 MB

KCKL

MyREN

Telemedicine Activities

• Conducted within the Hospital– Dedicated analogue

lines for audio and video

– Point to point– Lines from operating

theatres to lecture rooms and auditoriums

Telemedicine Activities

• Past events– Live Surgery Workshop

• Laparoscopic Nephrectomy

March 2003

• Minimally Invasive Hernia Surgery

April 2004

• Skull Base Surgery June 2004

• Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery June 2006

• Advanced Technique in OPCAB July 2006

– 6th Asia Pacific Congress of Endoscopic Surgery (ELSA) – Pre Congress Workshop Sept 2003

– Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) Conference and Live Surgery March 2005

Telemedicine Activities

• IP Video Conferencing– Over 1Mbps DSL line– CME activities

• Undergraduates• Postgraduates

– Regularly utilized– No MCU yet

• ISDN lines– 384kbps

Future directions

• Support Government Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) visions and objectives – telemedicine activities

• Improve our external connectivity, extend our conferencing capabilities

• Participate in national and regional network telemedicine initiatives

Thank youbadrul.com@gmail.com