Monday, February 22, 2010

AHIMA Academy for ICD-10: Building Expert Trainers in Diagnosis and Procedure Coding | AHIMA

Experience a dynamic training program that uses various teaching methods to help coding professionals become proficient in coding with the ICD-10-CM/PCS coding systems while preparing them to train other coding professionals in these systems. The academy includes a combination of online courses (self-paced) and face-to-face training. The online courses provide basic training in ICD-10-CM and/or ICD-10-PCS and are required to be completed prior to the workshops.

Each workshop focuses on engaging the trainer with in-class intermediate and advanced ICD-10-CM/PCS coding exercises, while modeling training techniques.

(Source - AHIMA Academy for ICD-10: Building Expert Trainers in Diagnosis and Procedure Coding | AHIMA)

IHE.net IHE Integration Statements

Developers of commercial and open source healthcare IT systems can publish IHE Integration Statements to indicate their systems' conformance with specifications in the IHE Technical Frameworks. The Integration Statement specifies the IHE capabilities of a system in terms of the key concepts of IHE: Actors and Profiles.

New: IHE Product Registry

IHE has developed a new Web-based database of Integration Statements. The IHE Product Registry--http://product-registry.ihe.net/--enables developers to create, manage and publish Integration Statements for their commercial and open source healthcare IT systems. It allows users to browse for these systems based on their conformance with specific IHE Actors and Profiles. The system is open for use by developers and users now!

The links below lead to IHE Integration Statements published by the companies listed. These links will be maintained until January 2010. Developers are strongly encouraged to migrate information for their Integration Statements into the Product Registry.

Contact registry@ihe.net with questions about IHE Integration Statements or the IHE Product Registry.

(Source : IHE.net IHE Integration Statements)

IHTSDO: January 2010 International Release of SNOMED CT

Copenhagen, Denmark; January 2010 The first 2010 International Release of SNOMED Clinical Terms® (SNOMED CT®) will be available for use on January 29, 2010, incorporating enhancements that are part of on-going efforts directed towards facilitating the use of the terminology in electronic health records.

SNOMED CT is a standardized clinical terminology which facilitates the consistent capture, exchange and aggregation of health data. The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO®) releases updates to the International Release of SNOMED CT twice per year to ensure that the terminology reflects the latest clinical knowledge and evolving user needs. The January 2010 release of SNOMED CT includes numerous content enhancements, including:

(a) Streamlined Documentation

The IHTSDO has begun to convert documentation for the SNOMED CT International Release into the DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) standard. Once fully implemented, this will improve the process for maintaining and generating these documents, and make it possible to release SNOMED CT documentation in additional formats, such as HTML.

For the January 2010 International Release, three documents have been generated using DITA: one new document, the SNOMED CT Stated Relationships Guide, and two previously released documents, the SNOMED CT User Guide and the SNOMED CT Technical Reference Guide.

(b) New Content Additions

1,728 clinical concept codes were added for the January 2010 International Release. In addition, 134 SNOMED CT Model Component metadata concept codes were created and will be released as part of a Technology Preview, but are not included in the official International Release.

(c) Updated Content

Content in a number of areas of SNOMED CT has been updated to make use of the terminology more effective. Examples include:

  • Content additions as part of an operational trial of a division of labor in laboratory test terminology development being undertaken with LOINC and NPU;
  • Revision to the logical definitions of situation concept codes;
  • Updates to the Situation with explicit context hierarchy so that the logic definitions can be consistently used for both pre- and post-coordination;
  • Modeling of evaluations findings and evaluation procedures to review and sufficiently define content in these hierarchies, as well as to align logic definitions with new editorial policies;
  • Retirement of ambiguous codes related to severity in the Qualifier value hierarchy; and
  • Progress in populating the HAS DOSE FORM attribute for about 800 concept codes in the substance hierarchy.

(d) January 2010 Technology Preview

In preparation for adoption of the new “RF2” release format, it will be necessary to add a new concept hierarchy, consisting of metadata concept codes, to the Concepts table. These metadata concept codes are not part of the clinical content of SNOMED CT, but will be needed in order for the clinical content to be distributed using the RF2 format.

These changes do not affect the official January 2010 International Release, but are being included in the January 2010 Technology Previews. These previews provide versions of the January 2010 International Release content in both the current (RF1) and new (RF2) release formats. Based on feedback from the Community of Practice, the IHTSDO will determine the release date at which these changes will be incorporated into the official SNOMED CT International Release.

(Source: IHTSDO: January 2010 International Release of SNOMED CT)

Police finalising papers on Sekinchan rep accident

KUALA LUMPUR: Police are finalising their investigations into an accident involving Sekinchan assemblyman Ng Suee Lim and a Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) student on Feb 7.

Selangor police chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said the investigation papers on the case would be forwarded to the Attorney-General’s Chambers soon for further action.

“We are finalising the report,” he told reporters after opening the Taman Ampang Utama police beat base here on Wednesday.

He declined to elaborate but said that there were recommendations that Ng be charged for negligence.

In the incident at about 11.50pm, Ng, who was driving a Nissan X-Trail SUV, was said to have hit the student, Mohd Bakri Mohd Bazli, 23, who was riding a motorcycle at a traffic light junction in Section 7, Shah Alam.

The student has been admitted to the Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital and remains in serious but stable condition.

(Source : Police finalising papers on Sekinchan rep accident)

UiTM berikrar penuhi hasrat PM

KUALA LUMPUR 13 Feb. - Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) berikrar memastikan hasrat Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak yang mahukan institusi berkenaan menyediakan 5,000 tempat untuk pelajar miskin dan anak yatim setiap tahun menjadi kenyataan.

Naib Canselor UiTM, Prof. Datuk Ir. Dr. Sahol Hamid Abu Bakar berkata, ia penting kerana idea Perdana Menteri itu jelas menunjukkan keprihatinan kerajaan terhadap nasib para pelajar miskin dan anak yatim.

"Melalui program ini kita dapat memberi peluang kepada anak-anak kaum bumiputera yang miskin untuk mendapat tempat di institusi pengajian tinggi awam (IPTA) serta berjaya dalam hidup mereka kelak," katanya ketika dihubungi Mingguan Malaysia di sini hari ini.

Perdana Menteri mencadangkan perkara tersebut semasa merasmikan Kampus UiTM Puncak Alam Fasa Satu di Shah Alam, semalam.

Menurut Najib, jika ia dapat dilakukan, 20,000 pelajar miskin terdiri daripada anak pekebun, anak yatim, nelayan dan anak kakitangan pembantu am rendah akan berpeluang belajar di IPTA.

Ketika ditanya apakah tindakan susulan UiTM, Sahol berkata, pihaknya akan mengadakan kempen di setiap negeri bagi mengenal pasti dan mencari calon yang bebar-benar layak.

"Kita sendiri akan mencari mereka (pelajar miskin) di seluruh pelosok negeri, manakala soal pengambilan dan penempatan di UiTM, kita tidak ada masalah," katanya.

Jelas beliau, jumlah pelajar yang dicadangkan oleh Perdana Menteri tersebut amat relevan dan tidak mendatangkan sebarang masalah terhadap UiTM untuk memenuhinya.

Tambah Sahol, UiTM sememangnya dalam usaha untuk meningkatkan pengambilan para pelajarnya daripada 130,000 sekarang kepada 200,000 pada tahun 2015.

"Kita mempunyai kakitangan yang cukup untuk kempen itu dan akan memastikan hanya yang benar-benar layak akan dipilih," katanya.

Katanya, kebanyakan pelajar miskin ini amat berpotensi jika diberikan peluang yang betul.

"Jika ada yang tidak cukup syarat kemasukan kita akan ambil juga tetapi akan diletakkan dalam program Kursus Peralihan selama enam bulan agar mereka berupaya meningkatkan syarat yang dikehendaki.

"Kita juga akan menumpukan kepada pelajar miskin lepasan Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) yang tercicir ke dalam lulusan diploma dan setanding dengannya," katanya.

Menurut beliau, UiTM akan memberikan tumpuan secara individu terhadap setiap kes pelajar ini untuk memastikan mereka tidak tercicir.

Beliau turut mengingatkan orang ramai yang berkemampuan agar tidak mengambil kesempatan itu untuk 'menangguk di air yang keruh'.

"Kita ada cara dan sistem untuk mengenalpasti pelajar yang benar-benar miskin, tolong bagi peluang kepada golongan miskin untuk belajar tinggi seterusnya mengubah nasib keluarga mereka," katanya.

Utusan Malaysia Online - Kampus

195 Kematian Sepanjang Ops Sikap-21

KUALA LUMPUR 21 Feb. - Ops Sikap Ke-21 sempena Tahun Baru Cina yang akan berakhir esok menyaksikan 12 lagi kematian dicatatkan dalam tempoh 24 jam semalam.Ketua Trafik Pasukan Bukit Aman, Datuk Abdul Aziz Yusof berkata, ini menjadikan jumlah keseluruhan kematian yang dicatatkan kini meningkat kepada 195 orang.

Daripada jumlah itu, penunggang dan pembonceng motosikal masih mencatatkan angka kematian tertinggi iaitu sembilan orang.

Tiga lagi kematian, katanya, masing-masing membabitkan pengguna motokar, lori dan jip.

Beliau berkata, 847 kemalangan dilaporkan berlaku di seluruh negara semalam.

"Jalan bandaran mencatatkan jumlah kemalangan tertinggi iaitu sebanyak 393 kes, diikuti 207 kes di jalan Persekutuan, jalan negeri (146), lebuh raya (64) dan jalan-jalan lain (37)".

"Sepanjang tempoh 24 jam semalam, lapan kemalangan maut dicatatkan di jalan negeri dan masing-masing dua kematian berlaku di jalan Persekutuan dan bandaran," katanya dalam kenyataan yang dikeluarkan di sini hari ini.

Bagaimanapun, menurut Abdul Aziz, jumlah saman yang dikeluarkan pihaknya menunjukkan penurunan apabila hanya 5,586 saman yang dikeluarkan semalam. Ops Sikap ke-21 yang bermula pada 7 Februari lalu, berakhir hari ini.

(Sumber : Utusan Malaysia Online - Dalam Negeri)

Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Israel drones 'could target Iran'

Beranikah israel menyerang Iran...

Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Israel drones 'could target Iran'

Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Iranian scientists clone goat

Iranian scientists have cloned a goat and plan future experiments they hope will lead to a treatment for stroke patients.

The female goat, named Hana, was born early on Wednesday in the city of Isfahan in central Iran.

"With the birth of Hana, Iran is among five countries in the world cloning a baby goat," said Isfahani, an embryologist. Mohammed Hossein Nasr e-Isfahani, head of the Royan Research Institute, said.

He said his institute's main aim in cloning the goat is to produce medicine to be used to treat people who have had strokes.

In 2006 Iran became the first country in the Middle East to announce it had cloned a sheep.

The effort is part of Iran's quest to become a regional powerhouse in advanced science and technology by 2025. In particular, Iran is striving for achievements in medicine and in aerospace and nuclear technology.

Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Iranian scientists clone goat

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Interoperability in health information systems

Introduction

Interoperability is integrated connectivity. Interoperability enables data and information generated by one system to be accessed and (re-)used in a meaningful way by another system, whether or not the latter system is based on different technologies.

Interopability in computerised healthcare information systems lags far behind other (arguably less complex and variable) domains such as finance and transport. Many implemented health information technologies, such as electronic patient records, have tended to be local, proprietary and insular. Many systems in use weren't designed to communicate with others (whether inside or outside individual health provider organisations), so don't.

However, interopability, using open standards to support information and data exchange, has become a very significant issue for health information technology developers and implementers. It is probably the major concern of all national governments implementing or promoting the implementation of national health information networks and infrastructures.

Interoperability covers health and patient information, clinical knowledge and workflow, and technical matters such as architecture, messaging, interfacing knowledge and data representation, and security (data privacy, confidentiality, individual and organisation identifiers ...). Standards designed to support interoperability and national policy documents are covered in more detail elsewhere on Open Clinical (see links below). These include standards for communication, messaging, data transfer (DICOM for medical images, HL7 for electronic patient referrals, lab. requests and results); data representation standards (ASTM Continuity of Care Record, HL7 Clinical Document Architecture; medical terminologies and classifications (representing clinical data, drugs, lab. tests ...) electronic patient record architecture, structure, format (EHRcom, openEHR ...).

Definitions

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, USA) defines interoperability as:

"the ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged". [IEEE-USA]

In Europe, IDABC - Interoperable Delivery of European eGovernment Services to public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens - offers the following similar definition (edited for clarity):

"Interoperability means the ability of information and communication technology (ICT) systems ... to exchange data and enable the sharing of information and knowledge." [IDABC]

The National Alliance for Health Information Technology (NAHIT, USA) expands a little on the above definitions:

"In healthcare, interoperability is the ability of different information technology systems and software applications to communicate, to exchange data accurately, effectively, and consistently, and to use the information that has been exchanged. " [NAHIT]

Benefits

For health professionals:
  • Improve access to health record data and health information anytime, anywhere.

For patients:

  • Improve quality and safety of care by improving data exchange, the quality of data flow and access to information by health professionals thereby potentially reducing errors.

For health managers:

  • Improve data collection and facilitate statistical and economic analysis.

For health researchers:

  • Improve and increase the availability of medical data.
For the healthcare technology industry:
  • Improve access to the healthcare market for more companies (SMEs in particular who may be limited in their ability to provide technologies which can integrate with an organisation's legacy systems).
Issues

  • Without interoperability, fundamental data and information such as patient records can't easily be shared across and sometimes within enterprises.
  • Achieving interoperability in a domain where information technologies, where they have been deployed in routine practice, may not have been designed to support it.
  • Many standards to support interoperability are only just now being developed - after many HIT systems have been installed.
  • Where HIT standards do exist they may also compete, making interoperability more difficult to achieve.
  • A lot of computerised clinical data are stored in ageing legacy systems in proprietary formats which are dificult for other systems to access, re-represent and transfer for (re)use. (The use of proprietary formats may also lock customers into specific information systems.)
  • Implementation of interoperable health information systems may require a high degree of technical expertise not readily available to small organisations in particular.
(Source : http://www.openclinical.org)

Monday, February 15, 2010

Lawatan Naib Canselor ke Hospital Ampuan Rahimah Klang Ziarah Saudara Mohd. Bakri

Pada jam 11.00 pagi tadi Dato' Naib Canselor bersama pegawai khas beliau dan Prof. Madya Hanafiah melawat mahasiswa UiTM yang terlibat didalam kemalangan jalan raya di wad 3A Hospital Ampuan Rahimah Klang, turut berada diwad berkenaan ialah ayah kepada Mohd. Bakri. Difahamkan kemalangan tersebut melibatkan YB DUN Sekinchan Y.B Ng Swee Lim daripada DAP. Saudara Mohd. Bakri telah sedar dan memberikan respond bila ditanya soalan, walaubagaimanapun perbualan beliau tidak dapat difahami dan suara yang dikeluarkan oleh beliau tidak begitu jelas. Saudara Mohd. Bakri mengalami kecederaan dikepala dan difahamkan oleh pihak hospital bahawa berlaku keretakan pada kepala dan berlaku perdarahan dibahagian otak beliau.

Sekitar jam 11.30 pagi rombongan daripada Badan Perhubungan UMNO Selangor yang diketuai oleh YB Dato' Abdul Syukur Hj. Idrus turut melawat saudara Mohd. Bakri dan menghulurkan bantuan kepada keluarga Mohd. Bakri yang datang daripada Kota Bahru Kelantan.

Sebagai Pegawai Pembangunan Pelajar NR saya mengiringi Dato' NC dan YB Dato' Abdul Syukur sepanjang lawatan mereka ke hospital tersebut. Nasihat saya kepada semua mahasiswa UiTM yang menggunakan kenderaan bermotor seperti motosikal atau kereta supaya sentiasa mengutamakan keselamatan dan berhati-hati dijalan raya.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Medical Scientist is First Malaysian to Win Australian PM Award

Obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Jeegajeeva Rao from UiTM’s Faculty of Medicine, has become the first, and only Malaysian, to receive the coveted Australian Prime Minister’s Asia Endeavour Award 2010.

The Prime Minister’s Scholarship Award, worth RM630,500.00, will enable Dr Rao to pursue his doctorate in medicine at the University of News South Wales and undertake research at the Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney. Dr. Rao will conduct research on the human papilloma virus (HPV) and cervical cancer under Australia’s leading gynaecological cancer specialist, Professor Neville Hacker.

The award was made to Dr Rao by Her Excellency Ms Penny Williams at a special ceremony held at the Chancellory, UiTM, in the presence of the university’s top management.

The Vice-Chancellor, Dato’ Professor Dr Sahol Hamid Abu Bakar stated that Dr Rao was being recognised for a string of accomplishments besides his vast training and experience in Malaysia, United Kingdom, Indonesia and Australia.

Dr Rao who leaves on Sunday to pursue his studies said the award was “a dream come true.”

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Direktori Aktif - Suatu keperluan mengikut HIPAA

Semua hospital yang menggunakan sistem maklumat berkomputer atau rekod maklumat berkomputer wajib mematuhi keperluan keselamatan yang ditetapkan oleh HIPAA. Maklumat pesakit adalah "private and confidential" justeru ia perlu bebas daripada godaman pengodan. Semua pengguna yang berhubung dengan sistem rangkaian boleh dikenali dan diketahui menggunakan aktif direktori. Ia juga memudahkan pentadbir rangkaian dan pentadbir sistem mengurus sistem ICT kerana semua device yang berhubung dan bersambung didalam rangkaian boleh dikawal dan dipantau.

Cisco vs Juniper ? Siapa Pemenangnya.....

Jupiner berhasrat untuk membuktikan kepada UiTM bahawa router mereka lebih tahan lasak berbanding cisco. Mereka menjanjikan 99.98 % uptime selama satu tahun kepada UiTM. Saya berminat untuk meneroka junos sehingga ke akar umbi.

Monday, January 4, 2010

Selamat Kembali Ke Pangkuan UiTM - Dato' Prof. Ir. Dr. Sahol Hamid Abu Bakar Naib Canselor baru UiTM

Semoga UiTM akan menjadi lebih dinamik, maju dan berwibawa berasaskan budaya kualiti, beretika profesional dan permuafakatan ilmu dibawah kepimpinan beliau. Saya berhasrat untuk merealisasikan konvergensi suara, data dan video di UiTM. Semoga berlaku suatu pembaharuan dalam bidang ICT di UiTM menyaksikan halatuju ICT yang lebih mesra pengguna, selamat dan berdaya saing.

Selamat Melayari Internet - Mahasiswa Perubatan UiTM Selayang boleh menggunakan kemudahan wireless broadband percuma bermula hari ini


Malam tadi saya membantu mahasiswa/i perubatan selayang untuk menggunakan kemudahan wireless broadband percuma di semua kawasan terbuka dan tertutup di sekitar Kampus Fakulti Perubatan Selayang terutamanya di Cafeteria. Maklumbalas mahasiswa perubatan umumnya baik.

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Perjumpaan Mahasiswa NR Fakulti Sains Gunaan

Pada hari ini saya dan En. Amizar memberikan taklimat mengenai peranan unit pengurusan NR dalam membantu mahasiswa NR bermula jam 9.00 pagi sehingga 11.00 pagi. Majlis tersebut berjalan lancar dan mendapat sambutan yang menggalakan daripada mahasiswa NR daripada Fakulti Sains Gunaan.

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Majlis Perpisahan dan "Send-Off" untuk Tan Sri Naib Canselor

Hari ini, 31 Disember 2009 merupakan hari terakhir Tan Sri Prof. Dr Ibrahim Abu Shah menjadi Naib Canselor UiTM. Suatu majlis perpisahan diadakan hari ini di Halaman Bangunan Canseleri

Tarikh : 31 Disember 2009 (Khamis)
Masa : 4.30 petang
Tempat : Halaman Bangunan Canseleri.

Semoga Tan Sri NC sentiasa didampingi kesajahteraan, kebahagiaan dan kegembiraan.

Fakulti Perubatan Kampus Selayang - Kampus Pertama di UiTM Menggunakan Juniper Router

Fakulti Perubatan Kampus Selayang adalah kampus pertama di UiTM menggunakan router Juniper. Selama ini router UiTM dimonopoli oleh cisco dan buat pertama kalinya monopoli ini dipecahkan. Semoga 2010 memberikan budaya bersaing yang sihat diantara vendor ICT yang terlibat dengan projek-projek ICT di UiTM.

Sunday, December 27, 2009

10 maut tragedi bas ekspres di Lebuhraya Utara Selatan


IPOH 26 Dis. – Seramai 10 penumpang maut manakala dua lagi cedera dengan seorang daripadanya parah apabila bas dua tingkat, Sani Express terbabas lalu melanggar pembahagi jalan di Kilometer 272.8 Lebuhraya Utara-Selatan arah utara, lapan kilometer dari Plaza Tol Ipoh Selatan di sini, awal pagi ini.

Nahas ngeri tersebut menyebabkan ada di antara penumpang putus kepala serta beberapa anggota badan lain.

Mereka yang maut ialah pasangan suami isteri, Shaharin Mohd. Nor, 61, dan Supiah Adam, 46, dari Klang, Selangor; Mohd. Shukri Mohd. Ali, 22, serta Mohd. Bilal Osman, 22, dari Sungai Besar, Selangor, Sharifah Raheel Al-Junid Syed Harun, 21, dan adiknya, Sharifah Hasanah, 15, (Sungai Petani, Kedah).

Turut maut, Musa @ Ismail Abdullah, 64, dari Gurun, Kedah; Noor Jasmi Noordin, 25, Kangar, Perlis; Ng Kah Kit, 14, dan Ng Poh Ngoh, 23, dari Alor Setar.

Penumpang yang parah dalam kemalangan kira-kira pukul 1 pagi itu ialah Md. Razip Fadzir, 38, seorang pegawai tentera berpangkat Mejar manakala Siti Munira Hashim, 30, dari Langgar, Kedah, cedera ringan.

Ketua Trafik negeri, Supritendan Wan Abdullah Wan Ishak berkata, kesemua mayat dibawa ke Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun di sini untuk bedah siasat manakala kedua-dua mereka yang cedera menerima rawatan di hospital sama.

“Mereka yang terbunuh dan cedera merupakan penumpang di tingkat bawah bas. Penumpang di bahagian atas serta kedua-dua pemandu bas tidak mengalami kecederaan,” katanya kepada pemberita di sini hari ini.

Difahamkan, bas ekspres yang membawa seramai 48 penumpang itu bertolak dari Klang menuju ke Kangar pada pukul 9 malam tadi.

Malangnya, ketika tiba di tempat kejadian, bas terbabit dikatakan terbabas lalu merempuh pembahagi jalan di sebelah kiri lebuh raya.

Keadaan bertambah buruk apabila bas itu kemudian melantun dan merempuh pula pembahagi jalan di sebelah kanan lebuh raya sebelum berhenti.

Menurut Wan Abdullah, siasatan awal mendapati, besi daripada pembahagi jalan yang menusuk masuk ke dalam bas selepas rempuhan yang pertama (sebelah kiri) menyebabkan kematian dan kecederaan kepada penumpang-penumpang berkenaan.

Sehubungan itu katanya, pemandu bas ketika kemalangan tersebut telah ditahan polis bagi membantu siasatan mengikut Seksyen 41 (1) Akta Pengangkutan Jalan 1987.

Pemandu tersebut dikatakan berhenti sebentar di hentian rehat dan rawat (R&R) Tapah bagi membolehkan penumpang ke tandas sebelum menyambung semula perjalanan seterusnya.

Sementara itu, seorang daripada penumpang yang terselamat, Marziana Mahmud, 24, mendakwa, pemandu bas tersebut kelihatan mengantuk sebelum berlaku kemalangan.

“Bas dipandu dalam keadaan tidak stabil, terhuyung-hayang ke kiri dan kanan sebelum kejadian,” dakwanya.

Dia yang duduk di bahagian depan tingkat atas bas ketika kemalangan tersebut berlaku berkata, keadaan penumpang ketika itu kelam-kabut dan dalam ketakutan.

(sumber : Mingguan Malaysia)

Leadership in Action : the Vice-Chancellor Receives Distinguished Business Leadership Award 2009 (Public Education Sector)

Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Prof Dr Ibrahim Abu Shah is the recipient of the Business Leadership Award in the Public Education Sector category, in recognition of his exceptional commitment to the advancement of public education as well as his dedication to bring about beneficial socio-economic changes in the country.

The Malaysia Business Leadership Awards (MBLA) 2009 were presented to various remarkable Malaysian business leaders by the Kuala Lumpur Malay Chamber of Commerce at The Royale Chulan, Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 15th November.

The MBLA for Public Education Sector is one of the most prestigious award categories at the MBLAs. The awards are based on the 6 awarding criteria of entrepreneurial spirit, financial performance, global impact, innovation, personal integrity/influence and strategic direction.