The Siriraj Hospital of Mahidol University in Thailand has extended its partnership with Australian digital business consultant DB Results. 

The deal is for the renewal of the public hospital's use of DB's Outsystems, a low-code platform for building digital applications. 

WHY IT MATTERS

The extended partnership means that both parties will continue collaborating in digitally transforming one of Thailand's biggest public hospitals. In 2020, the organisations signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to work on digital health solutions guided by a digital transformation strategy that supports Siriraj's evidence-based trials, education, change management, implementation, and digital transformation.

Since then, Siriraj has enhanced its pathology allocation services by implementing a Pathology app. The hospital also improved its surgery and post-surgery processes with the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery platform built to replace its old manual paper-based system and digitally streamline processes.

As part of their partnership, DB also trained the hospital's business analysts in agile work and the development team in using its OutSystems platform.

THE LARGER TREND

Siriraj has continuously engaged with partners for its digital transformation. In December, it launched a 5G smart hospital, touted to be the first and largest in Thailand and Southeast Asia, with support from Huawei and the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission. This followed the signing of a five-year MOU with Huawei in late 2020 to promote 5G technology. 

The public hospital also was the first in the region to deploy NVIDIA DGX A1000 systems for medical research and clinical applications.