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In 2018 alone, approximately 12,000 audits performed for broad-spectrum antibiotic use at SGH revealed that 20 per cent to 30 per cent of these prescriptions were inappropriate.

Dr Ian Chuang, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), EMEALAAP Health at Elsevier, shares on how hospitals can prepare for a new normal in a post COVID-19 world.

“Everyone is working towards the same target, even though no one talked about it,” said Professor Tomohiro Kuroda, CIO, Kyoto University Hospital (KUHP), Japan.

In the fourth episode of the HIMSS APAC Digital Dialogue Series hosted by Dr Charles Alessi, HIMSS Chief Clinical Officer, guest speakers Professor Dr Tunku Kamarul Zaman bin Tunku Zainol Abidin, Director, University Malaya Medical Center (UMMC) and Dr Fazilah Shaik Allaudin, Senior Deputy Director, Medical Development Division, Ministry of Health (MOH) Malaysia spoke their respective organizations’ approach to containing the outbreak and discussed COVID-19’s impact on telehealth in Malaysia.

Lunit INSIGHT MMG was first introduced at the 2018 RSNA annual meeting.

“There is a lot of discussion within the government to allow telehealth services in South Korea. It is one of the ‘new normal’ after COVID-19,” said Dr Hwang Hee, CIO, SNUBH.

Technologies adopted to tackle the COVID-19 situation at TTSH included the Staff Surveillance System (S3), Command, Control and Communications (C3) system and a real time location system (RTLS).

Earlier in March, IHH had also invested in Singapore-headquartered telehealth startup Doctor Anywhere.

“One of the most apparent shifts we’ve seen is how COVID-19 is spurring the move to virtual care,” said Caroline Clarke, Executive Vice President and Market Leader, Philips ASEAN Pacific.

In the rapidly changing modern healthcare environment, it is no longer tenable to collect patient feedback in an old-fashioned manner.