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The wave towards digitising all our information may have begun ten years ago, according to Leon Jackson, head of healthcare IT at Universiti Malaysia’s Specialist Centre (UMSC), but all that information is not fully optimised because of all the different silos they reside in.
This is a situation that UMSC is trying to rectify, as especially in the field of medicine and health, timely and adequate information can literally save lives. Jackson opined, “In a secure way all your (medical) information can follow you, and you’d be able to do more personalised medicine with targeted drugs (administration) and therapies.”
Jackson explained that currently the industry is only addressing 20-percent of the market (population) who are already ill and in need of medical attention. The other 80-percent still have potential and can be offered targeted health screening services and so on. After all, prevention is better than cure, and medicine should be preventing instead of just treating illnesses.
The specialist centre together with IT vendor IBM, have recently completed consolidation of their data centre infrastructure on campus, and basically cloud-enabled it to be able to run UMSC’s mission-critical systems.
Jackson said that sometime in 2013, UMSC aims to start providing cloud-based services like self-scheduling of visits to the doctor and replenishing prescriptions via online.
