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Johor Bahru [Malaysia], August 5: KPJ Healthcare Berhad (‘KPJ Healthcare’) marked the graduation of a strategic partnership with SingHealth, Singapore’s largest and main healthcare cluster, via the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (‘MoU’), establishing a long-term framework for collaboration in healthcare innovation, medical analysis, schooling and medical simulation.
The partnership brings collectively KPJ Healthcare’s nationwide community of specialist hospitals and Malaysia’s first non-public Educational Well being System, the KPJ Well being System (‘KPJHS’). House to an built-in community of acute hospitals, neighborhood hospitals, nationwide specialty centres and polyclinics delivering care throughout greater than 40 medical and surgical specialties, SingHealth is one among Asia’s most revered tutorial healthcare clusters. Constructed on complementary strengths and a shared dedication to medical excellence, each organisations will work collectively to develop healthcare expertise, advance analysis and innovation, strengthen specialist capabilities and promote the alternate of information and finest practices.
Talking on the ceremony, Datuk Syed Mohamed Syed Ibrahim, Chairman of KPJHS Governing Council and President and Chief Government of Johor Company (‘JCorp’) mentioned, ‘Healthcare’s greatest challenges can’t be solved by anyone establishment alone. This partnership displays our shared dedication to studying from each other, growing future healthcare expertise collectively and advancing innovation that finally improves affected person care. Partnerships will not be outlined by the paperwork we signal. They’re outlined by the long run we select to construct collectively.’
Prof. London Lucien Ooi, Group Director of Worldwide Collaborations and Director, SingHealth Duke-NUS World Well being Institute and Senior Marketing consultant, Division of Hepatopancreatobiliary/Transplant Surgical procedure at Singapore Basic Hospital and the Nationwide Most cancers Centre Singapore, mentioned, ‘The signing of this MoU displays a shared dedication to advancing healthcare innovation, medical analysis, schooling and medical simulation for our communities. It establishes a framework for collaboration throughout a number of areas of mutual curiosity, together with healthcare innovation, simulation, schooling and analysis.’
The MoU establishes a long-term framework for collaboration throughout these strategic areas: Medical Schooling and Workforce Improvement, Analysis and Innovation, Medical Collaboration, Digital Well being & AI and Information Trade. Collectively, these areas will assist the alternate of experience, strengthen specialist capabilities, promote multidisciplinary collaboration and create new alternatives for innovation that profit sufferers and healthcare professionals.
Preliminary areas of collaboration embrace fellowships, specialist attachments and tutorial exchanges, alongside collaborative analysis, scientific publications, conferences, healthcare management growth, medical simulation and the co-management of complicated medical circumstances.
For KPJ Healthcare, the collaboration helps the continued development of the KPJ Well being System by accelerating the combination of Apply, Schooling, Analysis and Innovation via strategic worldwide partnership. This can be enabled via the Future Well being Institute (‘FHI’), the strategic platform for integrating these pillars and facilitating collaboration with main tutorial and medical companions worldwide.
The MoU doc alternate ceremony was held at Johor Specialist Hospital. Professor Dato’ Dr. Hanafiah Harunarashid, Chief Medical Director of KPJ Healthcare, exchanged the MoU on behalf of KPJ Healthcare with Prof. London Lucien Ooi on behalf of SingHealth. The alternate was witnessed by Dr. Nik Fawaz Nik Abdul Aziz, Chief Working Officer for Group Allied & Retail Well being Operations, KPJ Healthcare and Ms. Vijaya Rao, Director of the Worldwide Collaboration Workplace at SingHealth.
For extra info on KPJ Healthcare go to https://kpjhealth.com.my/
About KPJ Healthcare Berhad
KPJ Healthcare operates 30 hospitals throughout Malaysia and three Ambulatory Care Centres, serving 3.3 million sufferers yearly with 1,491 medical consultants. Nineteen hospitals are accredited by MSQH and 4 by JCI. As Malaysia’s first non-public healthcare supplier to determine an Educational Well being System, KPJHS integrates apply, schooling and analysis & innovation to drive medical excellence and affected person expertise. Past hospitals, KPJ Healthcare operates Klinik Waqaf An-Nur (KWAN) clinics, dialysis centres and cell clinics nationwide, and provides greater than 40 tutorial programmes at KPJ Healthcare College (KPJU). KPJ Healthcare has been a constituent of the Bursa Malaysia FTSE4Good Index since 2016.
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