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CPRC – Hospital System

CPRC Hospital System was developed as an online
reporting tool to monitor hospital preparedness in
facing the pandemic. It was a CSR initiative by UEM

Edgenta and Meridien Sdn Bhd. It leverages on
the existing MOH Blood Bank Information System
(BBISv2) Cloud Framework and Platform to support
data collection during the crisis of COVID-19 and
uses Power BI analytics. The CPRC Hospital System
was developed within a short period of time and
rolled out to all COVID-19 hospitals nationwide. In the
early phases of the pandemic, daily bed usage and
utilization was monitored manually. This IT platform
facilitated data collection and analysis, including on
daily monitoring of hospital beds, ICU beds, ventilator
utilization, and specific hospital reconstitution index;
for both, federal and state level. This allowed efficient
response towards an escalating outbreak.

As a result of agile development, the CPRC Hospital
System now contains several sections as outlined
in Figure 1. This system has helped the Ministry of
Health to make quick and efficient decision pertaining
to the management of hospital facilities during the
outbreak.

Asian Development Bank Sustainable Development
Working Paper Series has published a paper in
October 2020 on “Public Health Innovations for
COVID-19: Finding, Trusting, and Scaling Innovation”
where our Crisis Preparedness and Response
Centre (CPRC) Hospital System was highlighted as
a program that could be easily implemented in other
countries to upgrade hospitals’ operational efficiency.
https://www.adb.org/publications/public-health-
innovations-covid-19

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