The Ministry of Health (MOH), Brunei Darussalam and Singapore based EVYD Technology have offciated MOH Intelligence Hub at EVYD Campus in Brunei's Jerudong. The ministry aims to proactively leverage technology to further propel the world-leading digital optimisation of Brunei’s healthcare ecosystem.

The co-located Hub will house the nation’s Epidemic Intelligence and Response Unit (Disease Control Division), functioning as a surveillance centre to monitor the nationwide spread of diseases; the Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Unit; and the Digital Health Unit. In the future, more government health units could be housed in the Hub, including the Behavioural Insights Programme, the National Clinical Research Unit and the Non-Communicable Disease Unit.

The Epidemic Intelligence and Response Unit Surveillance Centre leverages on a recently developed automated communicable disease surveillance system linked with clinical and laboratory data from Bru-HIMS to track and monitor the emergence and spread of over 50 infectious diseases in real-time.

Yang Berhormat Dato Seri Setia Dr Haji Mohammad Isham bin Haji Jaafar said: “MOH Intelligence Hub in EVYD Campus demonstrates the strategic relationship among healthcare technology, data analytics, research and policy planning. It will function as a sandbox for collaboration, knowledge generation and practice transformation. The Hub will provide a co-working space for different teams dealing with data and intelligence. Facilitating these enhanced interactions all in one location will provide Brunei with more value-added insights to craft data-driven decisions around population health with greater confidence.”

Mr Chua Ming Jie, CEO of EVYD Technology, said: “We are proud to have partnered MOH from the start of the pandemic in 2020 – beginning with co-developing BruHealth as a pandemic management tool, and now evolving it to become a national health app. Brunei also leverages our EVYDENCE data operating platform to integrate information from various data sources and process it into a common data model, enabling better health outcomes. The data from EVYDENCE is also used to power a whole range of digital health solutions for Bruneians. We will provide actionable data for meaningful impact in terms of policy-making and clinical outcomes, and MOH is able to leverage this data to empower the digital transformation of Brunei’s healthcare system”.

Photo caption: MOH Intelligence Hub opening ceramoney:

Yang Berhormat Dato Seri Setia Dr Haji Mohd Amin Liew bin Abdullah, Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office and Minister of Finance and Economy II (left); and Yang Berhormat Dato Seri Setia Dr Haji Mohammad Isham bin Haji Jaafar, Minister of Health (right)