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Network Status of Major Hospitals in Malaysia Suhaimi Napis Director, InfoComm Development Centre, Universiti Putra Malaysia Director, E-Research Area, MYREN Hospitals in Malaysia General hospitals: ICT hospitals Ordinary general hospitals Some general hospitals are used as teaching hospitals for medical degree programs: UPM, USM, UITM, UNIMAS, UMS, and several medical colleges Universiti Hospitals: University Hospital: Universiti Malaya Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Public Wing and Private Wing/Medical Centre ICT Hospitals 8 hospitals designated by Ministry of Health as ICT hospitals Heavily funded by government: stateof-the-art equipments with an integrated Total Health Information System …;-)! Each ICT hospital has its own designated area of specialization Areas of Specialization Hospital Selayang: Hepatobiliary,gastro-enterology Hospital Putrajaya: Endocrinology Hospital Serdang: Cardiorespiratory, musculoskeletal Located side by side with UPM Medical Faculty Hospital Hospital Hospital Hospital Hospital Sg Buloh: Neurology, musculoskeletal Ampang: Infectious disease Pandan Johor: Genito-urinary Kuala Lumpur: Mother and child Alor Star:Not Sure Connectivity Status of ICT Hospitals 100Mbps LAN Only Streamyx (commodity broadband) at 2 Mbps! Streamyx by Telco: Best Effort, no QoS MYREN Topology MYREN Topology Commodity Internet TEIN2 (45Mbps) MYREN NOC & Point-of-presence Cyberjaya Connectivity to Other NRENs 155Mbps IP backbone UniMAS Private Unis USM Gov. RIs Industry labs UUM UTP UM UMS UKM UPM UTM UiTM MMU UiTEN Summary and Other Issues No dedicated network linking hospitals including ICT hospitals Except Universiti Putra Malaysia but its only 8 mbps due to its close proximity to MYREN node Low band width internet connectivity Telemedicine activities needing high bandwidth is not possible MYREN Connectivity is one of the solution Hospital Serdang-Universiti Putra Malaysia (8 Mbps) Hospital University (UM)-Universiti Malaya (8 Mbps) HUKM (4+2 Mbps linking to main UKM with internal traffic) Others close to MYREN node DVTS is out of the questions but higher quality streaming is possible (need input from HDTV WG) Need to show proof-of-concept to the government by international participation in telemedicine projects especially those that require high capacity bandwidth Life must go on… Need to proceed with activities even with the present connectivity situation Necessary to send good message to government and therefore support such dedicated links between hospitals TQ !