Telemedicine in Hospital UKM
(National University of Malaysia)
http://www.medicine.ukm.my
http://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
Network Infrastructure
Internet
Hospital UKM Network
(Local Area Network) 8 MB
(Fibre optic 34Mbps)
Servers
firewall
HUKM Network Backbone
Servers
Clients
UKM
Backbone – Gigabit Ethernet 1000Mbps PRIMARY
CLINIC Campus
KCKL
Campus
10 Base T - 2500 nodes
8 MB - ISP
Network Infrastructure
8 MB
UKM
Main Campus
6 MB
4 MB
UKM NETWORK
(Wide Area Network)
Leased Lines
4 MB
Hospital UKM 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 you
badrul.com@gmail.com