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Women in Tech
03 From Paper to Digital
The Transformation of Patients Medical Record System in Cambodia

05 Top 5 Women in Tech

10 Digital Cambodia 2019

Towards Industry 4.0

20 Cambodia Girls in Silicon Valley

Inspired the New Generation of Tech Enthusiastic

80 Ministry Plans to Modernise Patient Medical

Records

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 Pong Limsan, founder and CEO of
First Womentech Asia First Womentech Asia won this
year’s Cambodian Women ICT

From Entrepreneur Award for its solution to

digitalise healthcare systems
are two steps of this process: “Online and
Offline”. Offline means storing data in their

Paper
own server, whereas online is storing in
the cloud, using internet and privacy to
be protected. Another important process
to keep in mind, but also one of the
challenges Ms. Pong’s facing is staff training
to understand and be prepared to adopt
this system. Cambodian is still very young

to to digitalization, and communication

Digital
technology. Limited experts and lack of
understanding about digital are one of the
problems that stood in between Ms. Pong
and her goal to adopt Peth Yeoung system
into health care service in Cambodia. Rather
than view it as a problem, she viewed it as
a challenge that she and her team will use
Lou Ly Kheang, director of Preah Ang as a motivation to keep working on Peth

The Transformation of Doung Hospital, only agreed on the

necessity in training the hospital staff to
Yeoung to become the best medical system
locally. This is the reason why Peth Yeoung
team will always be in close contact with
fully acquire the knowledge of the system,
Patients Medical Record according to Khmer Times.
“Our doctors and staffers are already used to
the hospital, and providing demonstration
and consulting regarding the usage of the
system.
System in Cambodia making orders and prescribing medication
electronically,” Mr. Ly Kheang said. “So
after more training on the new system,
Concerning the privacy of the medical
record of the patient, it will be kept
the system will be well implemented,” he confidential. Ms. Pong states clearly that
By Socheata, Sotheary, Rachana everything depends on the agreement. She
Peth Yoeung: Digitized the Patient Medical effective and efficient. This system has been continued.

Y
continues, “All hospital data is a secret,
ou are now sitting in a big public hospital Record System introduced since 2013, and have already been
Ms. Pong positively thinks that the system patient’s health record can’t be revealed to
in Phnom Penh. You have been waiting for Peth Yeoung, a digital operating management successfully adopted into a number of private
will be able to implement to all of the public anybody. The System only show the data
at least half an hour now. Still, the doctor system, is the first system introduced into hospitals.
hospitals in Cambodia. Providing the that has the right to be shown, it does not
is going through a big shelf to find your previous Cambodia’s healthcare system. Developed by First
medical Identification Card that contains display every single thing.”
document, hoping it might be buried somewhere Womentech Asia, Peth Yoeung is an innovative Implementing Peth Yeoung into the Public
the QR code, containing the patients’
among other thousands document. web-based hospital operating management system. Hospital in Cambodia
personalised digital medical records, would The Future prospect of the system
This system aims to fasten the process of work in Preah Ang Doung Hospital will be the first public
That’s not the end. You have to wait quite some be the next step for Peth Yeoung system, This middle-age-woman believes that this
the medical sector, ranging from registration, hospital to install this web-based data system into
time for the people at the registration desk to fill she added . platform will be a part to help Cambodia’s
health record, appointment to pharmacy, as well its medical services. It will be officially launched on
out all of your information on a piece of paper. You healthcare system; moreover, in the future,
as, stock management. the 6th of June this year. However, it does not end Even though Peth Yeoung system has been
bring the paper to another counter; you get to wait she plans to enhance Peth Yoeung to Asean
here. This system will consequently be applied to gradually recognized by the locals, it has yet
for another paper to be filled out. One paper leads Ms. Pong Limsan, 39, is the founder and CEO of countries as well.
all kind of platforms of medical sectors nationwide been fully recognized by the international.
to another until you finally get to see the doctor, First Womentech Asia, and also a woman behind As a founder and also influencer for women
including private and public hospital. Health This system has just been submitted in an
get the medicine, and come back home. Your the establishment of Peth Yoeung system. She won to take part in Cambodia digitalization, Ms.
Minister Mam Bun Heng told The Khmer Times award on Women Entrepreneurship and
hospitalized experience could be traumatized since an award of Cambodia’s Women in Tech in 2019. Pong has a positive mindset for both the
that after the system has been officially launched ICT competition.
it involves excessive process of carrying paper and She smiled brightly while mentioning about the future of Peth Yoeung system and young
at Preah Ang Doung Hospital, the ministry will
running around. benefit that this system would bring to Cambodia “Now we also got shortlisted on Young Cambodian generation, especially young
then apply the system to every state hospital in the
Filling out the information on the paper is a patient’s medical record system and medical Entrepreneurship competition too. We women. Talking from her experience,
Kingdom.
conventional way of keeping the patient’s health services. now just waiting for their email about what what she found is the most valuable asset
record in many hospitals, especially the public Regarding the duration of adopting this system we should be prepared, because we might of each person are patient, effort and
“The good thing about this system is that doctor into the hospital, Ms. Limsan mentioned about the
one, in Cambodia. However, it is inconvenient to need to present about our system on the honesty. Hence she really encourages each
has evidence about patient’s health record, no need size of hospital particularly about the staff.
do that and takes a lot of time. Moreover, there is stage,” said Ms. Pong. individual to always have a clear goal in
to waste a lot of time asking the patient as well as
a high possibility that the patient’s information “It takes around 1 month for the process. We have his/ her life, particularly do what you love
finding document,” she said.
could be lost. The emergence of the digitalization our steps. It depends on how big the hospital is. Adapting the Program into and passionate about.” She states that she
has made life much easier than ever. The old way Peth Yeoung system will help reduce the burden Sometimes they have only a few people, but some Cambodia Medical System happily open an opportunity for student or
of record-keeping process has been digitized, and of keeping the excessive record of the patients, have up to 50 or 70 people. It also depends on the One of the most important roles of Peth fresh graduates to be a part of her team to
gradually done through the software. making the process of the hospital registry more knowledge of the employee,” she said. Yeoung System is Data Storing, and there learn and improve themselves.

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 Angela Ahrendts
Angela is the Senior Vice President of retail
at Apple, being the only female senior
executive at Apple currently. Previously
she was the CEO of Blackberry. She also
made the cut for Forbes’ Most Powerful
Women in the World as well as Fortune’s

Top
Most Powerful Women in Business and
BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour Power List.
Talk about power!

Women in Tech Susan Wojcicki 

Wojcicki is the CEO of YouTube. You
know, the place you spend most of
your time with cat videos instead of
your actual cat. Wojcicki started out
as Google’s first marketing manager,
eventually moving up to lead projects
like AdWords, Analytics, and AdSense.
She was also listed once as Time’s Most
Influential People.

Marissa Mayer Sheryl Sandberg  Vanessa Hurst 

Mayer is the CEO of Yahoo! and before Sandberg is the COO of Facebook. She’s Hurst is the founder of Developers
that worked with Google working on written a couple books you need to add for Good, founder and CEO of
products like Gmail, Google Search, to your To-Read list right now. She’s also CodeMontage, and co-founder for Girls
Google Images, Google Books. Really the founder of LeanIn.org. She’s recently Develop It and WriteSpeakCode. Hurst
anything you ever use on Google on a been ranked as one of Forbes Top Women speaks around the globe and is currently
daily basis, Mayer’s had her hands in. in Tech. And on more than one occasion writing a book.
ranked one of Fortune Magazine’s Most
Powerful Women in Business.

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