{"id":6422,"date":"2010-10-29T00:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T00:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=6422"},"modified":"2015-05-09T05:37:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T05:37:32","slug":"ukmmcs-patient-transfer-devise-awarded-gold-medal-at-international-convention","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/october-2010\/ukmmcs-patient-transfer-devise-awarded-gold-medal-at-international-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"UKMMC\u2019s Patient Transfer Devise Awarded Gold Medal at International Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2010%2Foctober-2010%2Fukmmcs-patient-transfer-devise-awarded-gold-medal-at-international-convention%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=6422&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/kik2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">FRIDAY, 29 OCTOBER 2010 17:45<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Shahfizal Musa<br \/>\nPix by Saliman Leman<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nBANGI, 29 \u00a0Oct. \u2013 An innovation created by the Department of Medical Rehabilitation Service, UKM Medical Centre (UKMMC) was awarded\u00a0a gold medal at the International Convention on\u00a0 Quality Control Concept Circles (ICQCC) \u00a02010, in Hyderabad, India on Oct 15.<\/p>\n<p>The innovation named A1BOD is a patient transfer device, that enables a paralised patient to be transferred with ease and security. It enables the patient to be conveniently transferred from a vehicle to a wheel chair and then to the bed and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>The A1BOD is now going through the process of commercialisation and will be marketed worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>In another development, \u2018One Touch Group\u2019 from the Finance Department of UKMMC grabbed the first prize in the overall category\u00a0in UKM\u2019s 15th Innovative\u00a0 &amp; Creative Group Convention competition (KIK) for their innovation named the CHET system.<\/p>\n<p>It consist of ways to track patients who discharged themselves without going through the normal process. This was usually done to evade paying for their hospital bills.<\/p>\n<p>In the Technical category, the first prize was won by the \u2018TEN\u2019 team from the Department of Otorinolaringologi for their,\u00a06 in 1 endoscopic storage unit.<\/p>\n<p>Endoscopy is a tool used in surgery but due the lack of proper storage, it often leads to damage.\u00a0The TEN team designed a\u00a0storage unit\u00a0which could reduce handling time, maintenance cost while reducing the risk of infection to patients.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018IRIS\u2019 team won the first prize in the management category for their innovation that reduced rejection of portal film when an X ray is taken.<\/p>\n<p>The convention was held to encourage staff to innovative ways to deliver a more efficient service while recognising exemplary initiative of employees regardless of their ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Eighteen teams took part in the convention presenting their innovative creations to improve efficiency and effectiveness in their field of work<\/p>\n<p>The innovations produced by UKM employees were not limited for internal purposes of efficiency as some have even won international recognition and awards like the patient transfer devise developed by the Medical Rehabilitation Service.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRIDAY, 29 OCTOBER 2010 17:45 By Shahfizal Musa Pix by Saliman Leman BANGI, 29 \u00a0Oct. \u2013 An innovation created by<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/october-2010\/ukmmcs-patient-transfer-devise-awarded-gold-medal-at-international-convention\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6423,"parent":1410,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6422","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6425,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6422\/revisions\/6425"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}