The first digital hospital in the Northern part of Thailand has been founded by a collaboration of Chiang Mai University’s Faculty of Medicine and the world’s leading technology company providing digital technology for diagnosis, treatment and prescription.
According to Bannakit Lojanapiwat, Dean of Medicine Faculty of Chiang Mai University, the digital hospital user experience encompassed two primary systems, Drug & Medical Equipment Tracking System and Medical Service Status Tracking System.
The Drug & Medical Equipment Tracking System is the large logistics data system integrating data and real time tracking medical devices used in Maharaj Nakhon Chiang Mai Hospital and 13 service stations, leading more efficient budget management system, medicine warehouse and medical equipment.
The Medical Service Status Tracking System enables patients to view their service status via wireless network and mobile application. The information covers the status service, treatment number, medical, payment, and health information as well as tele-consulting in order to reduce numbers of patients in the hospital. The system also allows patients to more conveniently get the service at the site.
The innovation for sustainable healthcare development has been performed through the projects of Tuberculosis Screening project, Tele Palliative Care and Diabetes Patient Data & Communication Project.
For AI and deep learning have been applied for efficacy of treatment of Tuberculosis patients in remote areas, the technology enables physicians to diagnose the chest and access the high definition x-ray image and offer tele-consulting on Cisco WebEx platform. The system reduces diagnosis time and provides treatment since the early stage of Tuberculosis patients, saves time and cost, and solves the problem of radiologist shortage in remote areas.
The Tele Palliative Care project encompasses the virtual examination room to take care of palliative patients and bedridden patients so that they need not to travel to the hospital because the nurses with mobile med devices will visit them at home. Physicians can diagnose remotely in real time via Cisco Webex platform’s tele-consulting system.
The Diabetes Patient Data & Communication Project aims to uplift knowledge and skill of the Village Health Volunteer officers in taking care of diabetes patients which will reduce numbers of patients packed at the hospital. The officers will attend the online training of Smart Learning, Education Connector and Online Consulting provided on Cisco Webex platform.
The collaboration will serve the medical and public health service of the hospital network in 17 Northern provinces and it will be the R&D foundation for medical development in the future. The project has been supported by Cisco System, the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, on network infrastructure, data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, sensor technology and software-defined networking (SDN).
