On July 23, I participated in a webinar titled “Digital transformation: making a difference to primary and respiratory care” as part of a webinar series hosted by UMeHU (Universiti Malaya eHealth Unit) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, my previous workplace. The lecturer was Dr. Hilary Pinnock. As a specialist in respiratory medicine,
Just the other day, I received an email notification that a medical information project I participated in during my time at UM (Univ. Malaya) called “DeSProg” received the “International Innovation Award, <Silver Award>” from the “Malaysia Technology Expo 2025”. This is one of the previous work at my former place, and I am pleased to
The day finally arrived… a farewell dinner with my excellent colleagues who worked together at UM (Universiti Malaya) for three years. Although it was called “farewell,” we had a good time for three hours talking about various topics, no different from the usual dinner, and then we ended it simply, saying “Let’s meet again” without
Today, I received an email from the organizer with a certificate of appreciation for the webinar for medical students hosted by UMMC (University of Malaya Medical Center) that I did in May this year. It was already half a year ago. Time flies, man. Coincidentally today, I left Japan for Malaysia for the final procedures
It’s finally here, my last day of work at the University of Malaya, and it has been a very valuable 3-year experience. My official contract was to last until December 14, but I had 25 days of “on-leave/paid leave” for this year that I had not used at all, so I decided to use these
The eHealth Unit of the Faculty of Medicine, in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science and a private 3rd party vendor, has completed the first phase of this MyCR@UM project, after demonstrating the web system in June and July to UM specialists interested in clinical registry research. The first phase of the project, which
Last week we had a wide-ranging meeting regarding the production of SIMs (Self-Instructional Material) for the new Master of Digital Health course that we at the eHealth Unit have been working on for the past few years. A SIM is a series of instructional materials designed to allow students to learn at their own pace,
It is almost a frightening scientific and technological advancement…. A medical device has been developed that dramatically reduces seizure symptoms in patients with chronic epilepsy, which until now was considered nearly impossible to cure. Although neurosurgery is required because the device is placed directly over the brain, considering the fact that patients with this condition
MyCR@UM, a system that allows physicians and clinical researchers to build and operate a reliable, standardized clinical registry without the knowledge of database or programming, is being developed by eHealth Unit of the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, and the Clinical Investigation Center. This project, too, is about to
As I reported in the past, we at UM (University of Malaya) are responsible for sub-projects in ASEAN in the bigger RESPIRE project led by the University of Edinburgh Medical School in the UK. One of the projects is creating a smartphone application for chronic asthma patients to prevent asthma attacks by capturing data on