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Issue No. 1 April 24, 2006
News and Events
Other Interests
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This electronic newsletter is the brainchild of both the President and the Vice president of ACRM. It shall be published quarterly in conjuction with the exco meetings to update members on progress of the society. The secretary is currently holding the editor post and she appreciates the cooperation from all parties involved to send in their views and news of common interest.
Posted by: the secretary ACRM
The meeting held recently gave the chance for the Executive Committee to have a face to face discussion with the chairmen of the various clinical databases. Areas on mutual benefit such as on how to galvanise the support from ACRM to further strengthen their clinical database operation was deliberated upon. ACRM is set to provide a legal platform for like-minded professionals to share resources and expertise towards the promotion for the case of clinical registries/databases. ACRM will well become their prime advocator to this cause.
Exco members were encouraged to initiate membership drives to get more professionals on board. Member of ACRM will also begin to enjoy one of the members benefit i.e discounted registration to all courses or seminars organised by ACRM.
Posted by: the secretary ACRM
31st March 2006 was a day that shall go down in the history of Malaysia’s health care. It was the day of the auspicious launch of the first nationwide database on cardiovascular disease starting with Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS). To date 6 pilot sites have notified close to 600 cases from 1st Jan 2006 from. Days of making “guestimates” will be long gone. This would be replaced by information at the “fingertips” with online submissions that make real-time data capture and access for cardiovascular diseases in Malaysia a dream finally realized.
Posted by: the secretary ACRM
4. Malaysian Medical & Health Directory (MMHD)
Ms.MMHD Launching
MMHD shall be launched end of April 2006 at Putrajaya by our Minister of
Health, Y.B Dato' Dr Chua Soi Lek. All National Medicine Use Survey
participants are invited for the launch.
MMHD Distributor
UBSD Distribution Sdn Bhd has been officially appointed as MMHD
distributor. For all orders, please contact UBSD at Tel 03-8076 3042 Fax
03-8076 3142 e-mail:
enquiry@ubsd-dist.com website:
www.ubsd-dist.com
Good News! Popular Bookstore shall be declaring MMHD as Popular Choice
of the month of May 2006 in all their stores, nationwide.
MMHD Collaboration
The Department of Statistics, Malaysia has requested for MMHD database
to be used as a sampling frame for their health survey.
MMHD will also be working in collaboration with the Corporate Policy and
Health Industry Division of the MOH to conduct both health establishment
and health industry survey. All the health establishments identified by
the surveys will be listed in the MMHD
MMHD Exhibition Feedback
MMHD had received good response during the National Heart Association of
Malaysia's Annual Scientific Meeting held from 31 March to 2 April 2006,
Le Meridien Hotel Kuala Lumpur. Many participants had completed the
request for listing form at the booth fair. We have also received many
enquiries on the MMHD distributions.
Please visit our MMHD website at
http://www.acrm.org.my/mmhd for more information.
Posted by:
Esther Yong
5. National Medicines Use Survey: launching of Malaysian Statistics On Medicines
The first Malaysian Statistics On Medicines (MSM), which has been published as promised, is to be launched in conjunction with launching of the Malaysian Medical and Health Directory in late April 2006 in Putrajaya. This event would be officiated by our esteemed Minister of Health, Y.B Dato' Dr. Chua Soi Lek.
Malaysian Statistics On Medicines 2004, a product of National Medicines Use Survey (NMUS) contains data on medicines utilization in Malaysia using the *ATC/ DDD methodology.
First of its kind in Malaysia, these data could potentially be used in many different ways, including the promotion of rational use of drugs. Interested? You can download a softcopy of the MSM at the NMUS website.
* ATC: Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification; DDD: Defined Daily Dose
Posted by: Dr Lim TO
Soft launch of NTrD web application was held on 25th April 2006 at
Permata Budi, Institute for Health Management (IHM) on 25th April 2005.
Dato' Dr. Zaki Morad Bin Mohd Zaher had officiated the launching. In his
welcome speech, Dato' Zaki Morad had briefed about the registry and its
importance in facilitating research on trauma. Representatives from
Emergency and Neurosurgery Department comprising of doctors and para-medical
staff from the five pilot hospitals namely Hospital Kuala Lumpur,
Hospital Selayang, Hospital Alor Setar (Kedah), Hospital Pulau Pinang
and Hospital Sultanah Aminah (Johor Bahru) was in attendance for the
occasion.
The web application was unanimously accepted by the end users. With the
advent of this registry, all major trauma cases will be notified
thereafter.
Posted by:
Shanthi Vara
· All registries/ clinical databases are welcome to send in any news/ event and advertisement, notice to be posted in our newletter. Please forward the text to me at contact@acrm.org.my noting the word newsletter in the title.
· We are planning a year end seminar (YES! 2006) for ACRM in conjuction with the second AGM. The National Cancer registry may also be piggyriding on this occasion to launch their 3 rd report. We will be coming out with the 1 st announcement of that sometime next month so watch out….
· o A new Clinical Registry Manager Sr Rohana bt Mohd Daud will be joining the registry family from early July 2006. She has yet to be assigned to a register or clinical database. Invitation is open for any of the chairperson to ‘bid’ for her !!!. Fist come first serve
Posted by: Dr Lim TO