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P3 MDT INTERVIEW More on backpage perfect place to shoot a film’ 11.12.2018 tue 2 MACAU 澳聞 WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO HEALTH tion on figures, attendance and other data that would allow us to respond to urgent cases, for instance.” ‘Intelligent Medicine’ builds Director of the SSM Lei Chin Ion said earlier, during his ini- tial presentation, “during this first phase that started in the grounds for further development beginning of 2018 and lasted until November 30, we have Renato Marques performed works in areas such as the digitalization of the heal- HE first phase of the “Inte- th vouchers, the set up of the big lligent Medicine” program, data platform for the [medical T MARQUES RENATO which was established by the go- system] of Macau and privacy vernment as part of their “Smart protection. We hope that with City” plans to develop and im- the conclusion of works we can prove local health care, has been reach the three goals we propo- completed. This lays down a fou- sed: unifying data from several ndation that will allow further services and entities, fulfilling development and “more visibili- the supply of information at ty to the public,” said Leong Kei the interdepartmental level, Hong, chief of the Department of and improving health services, Organization and Information of providing a better service and the Health Bureau (SSM) during making it more convenient [for a press conference yesterday. the public].” When presenting the prelimi- In a response to the media, Lei nary results of the program’s im- said currently 20,000 people plementation, Leong said, “most have voluntarily registered to of the works performed this year use the eHR Pilot Program, whi- were related to the intercon- ch launched February 28, 2017. nection between the public and As for challenges in the im- private sectors,” particularly plementation of the program data sharing between institu- and system, the representative tions, such as patients’ medical of Alibaba Cloud Systems, Zhu records and other important in- have access to records of their idea of the use of the hospital the security [level] and privacy,” Jontong, noted that they are formation that could facilitate medical appointments, exams [and other health care facilities Leong replied. mostly related to the “many va- diagnosis and treatment. and results, medicine prescrip- in Macau].” In regards to the features and riants and many interfaces [in “This year’s outcomes are not tions and vaccination records, When questioned by the me- uses of the system currently in use by the different health servi- very obvious to [the] public for example,” he remarked. dia, Leong stated that one of the place, Leong noted that it allows ces and departments in Macau] because [they are mostly] re- As for work that is currently reasons the SSM is developing a data to be shared anonymously that are not unified,” he said. lated to infrastructure that is underway or already opera- mobile app is “data privacy.” with external entities, such as “The protocols among diffe- very important for the future,” tional, Leong explained that it “We are coordinating the other hospitals and healthcare rent institutions are not unified he noted. The SSM is currently would allow for a great amount works and I think the govern- centers, and organizes data into and they use different names working on a mobile applica- of statistics and comparative ment will launch it briefly, but three indicators that allow the and classifications, for exam- tion that “would allow citizens data to be collected, that “can we need to do many tests before SSM to better manage its servi- ple for diagnosis or treatment. to perform several tasks and to help our leadership have a clear launching it in order to assure ces and “define the risk [to] cer- [The Macau healthcare system] tain patients so we can follow up works like ‘isolated islands’ wi- closely on some cases.” For the thout any contact [between ser- time being, there are also two vices or institutions],” he added, Gov’t to enforce a special large screens that display infor- noting that the project aims to mation related to the system: “combine the great power of ‘monitoring system’ for seniors one to the general public located the cloud to help institutions in the lobby of the Conde de Sao to improve their efficiency and HE Chief of the Department of Organiza- Januário Hospital Center, and capacity, making service more Ttion and Information of the SSM, Leong Kei another for internal use, “whi- convenient and efficient for the Hong, said during yesterday’s press conference ch provides real-time informa- public.” that the government is implementing a spe- cially dedicated system that aims to monitor of MARQUES RENATO the use of healthcare services and needs of the LEI CONFIRMS POSTPONEMENT OF elderly. “We have a special system just for the elderly DORMITORY CONSTRUCTION [population] in which we can monitor the num- ber of visits to hospital [or health care centers] as THE HEALTH Bureau (SSM) well as problems registered during those visits,” director, Lei Chin Ion, confirmed Leong said, adding that the SSM can also check yesterday that the SSM has decided to postpone the construction of the in-depth data that includes “which departments dormitory building of the Islands MARQUES RENATO or branches they use more, what kind of services District Medical Complex. Accord- they require, and in this way we can draft a plan Leong Kei Hong ing to Lei, “the complex has seven [specifically dedicated] for the medical appoint- buildings, the most important ments of the elderly.” [ones being] the medical building According to the official, the same applies to In Leong’s words, the purpose is to allow the and the laboratory. The dormitory Lei Chin Ion “special diseases” like influenza and other infec- SSM to obtain the “full picture” of the situation in building is the kind of construction tious conditions, and emergency room visits, whe- hospitals as well as in the health care centers so that can be built later, because it is he said, adding that such a delay re services can “compare data per year and mon- “we can also know which places are more over- only for the use of frontline work- would have no impact on overall th… so we can analyze tendencies and perform a crowded on external appointments so the lea- ers when there is an emergency,” medical operation at the complex. forecast [of the incidence of such diseases].” ders can also manage human resources better.” www.macaudailytimes.com.mo EDITOR-IN-CHIEF (DIRECTOR)_Paulo Coutinho [email protected] A MACAU TIMES PUBLICATIONS LTD PUBLICATION MANAGING EDITOR_Paulo Barbosa [email protected] CONTRIBUTING EDITORS_Eric Sautedé, Leanda Lee, Severo Portela ADMINISTRATOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER + 4 Million page views Kowie Geldenhuys [email protected] NEWSROOM AND CONTRIBUTORS_Albano Martins, Annabel Jackson, Daniel Beitler, Emilie Tran, Irene Sam, SECRETARY Juliana Cheang [email protected] PER MONTH Ivo Carneiro de Sousa, Jacky I.F. 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What in your filmography do you think appeals to these audiences? NC – I think much of my success in this region is down to working with Chinese and other Asian filmmakers like John Woo and the Pang Bro- thers. I have been coming here for many years and have deve- loped a great relationship with the people of China and I hope that will continue for a long time.