2. Dr Badrulhisham Bahadzor ICT Coordinator Faculty of Medicine, UKM
Telemedicine in Hospital UKM (National University of Malaysia)
Dr Badrulhisham Bahadzor
ICT Coordinator
Faculty of Medicine, UKM

3. Introduction Faculty of Medicine, UKM Established 1972
Postgraduate program (Master) started 1981
Clinical activities centered at General Hospital Kuala Lumpur

4. Introduction Hospital UKM Established 1st July 1997
Teaching hospital for Faculty of Medicine, UKM
Tertiary level, 1000-bed

5. Network Infrastructure
Internet
Hospital UKM Network
(Local Area Network)
8 MB
(Fibre optic 34Mbps)
Servers
firewall
HUKM Network Backbone
Servers
Clients
UKM Campus
Backbone – Gigabit Ethernet 1000Mbps
10 Base T nodes
8 MB ISP
PRIMARY CLINIC
KCKL Campus

6. Network Infrastructure
8 MB
UKM
Main Campus
6 MB
UKM NETWORK
(Wide Area Network)
4 MB
Leased Lines
4 MB
Hospital UKM
KCKL

7. MyREN

8. 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

9. 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
Key people invited

10. Telemedicine Activities
IP Video Conferencing
Over 1Mbps DSL line
CME activities
Undergraduates
Postgraduates
Regularly utilized
No MCU yet
ISDN lines
384kbps

11. 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

12. Thank you badrul.com@gmail.com