GBDi rolls out bed allocation system

GBDi rolls out bed allocation system

GBDi director Tiranee Achalakul, centre, along with the GBDi team have developed the CO-link system by working with the Department of Medical Services.
GBDi director Tiranee Achalakul, centre, along with the GBDi team have developed the CO-link system by working with the Department of Medical Services.

Government Big Data institute (GBDi) has rolled out an operating system for bed allocation for Covid-19 patients, making sure they will be sent to arranged facilities within 24 hours.

The system, called CO-link, will be undertaken in Bangkok and surrounding provinces as pilot locations before being adopted across the country in the future.

Nuttapon Nimmanphatcharin, president of the Digital Economy Promotion Agency (Depa), which oversees GBDi, said GBDi has been carrying out various projects to analyse and govern data in connection with the pandemic.

The CO-link helps centralise data from various available sources, resulting in more effective and efficient bed allocation as well as treatment for Covid-19 patients, he said.

GBDi director Tiranee Achalakul said as the new wave of the pandemic flared up last month, her organisation has worked with the Department of Medical Services to develop a system of bed allocation that collects data from different hotlines, such as 1668, 1669, and 1330, as well as the department.

This system, she said, will help boost efficient workflow for staff on allocating beds for Covid-19 patients.

"GBDi has gathered 13 professional data scientists to initiate and develop a website for the bed allocation, as well as train healthcare staff to use the system," said Ms Tiranee.

The GBDi director said the number of active accounts in the system is now around 100-50, however, the system is able to accept thousands of accounts.

"Users of CO-link first evaluate the urgency of treatment from Covid-19 tests and patients' symptoms and then the users label patients [red, yellow or green] according to the urgency of treatment and allocate beds for the patients within 24 hours," she said.

Dashboards are prepared to represent data in the system so executives can investigate the situation more effectively, she said.

In the future, to prepare for increasing information regarding patients from other areas across the country, the system will be moved from a cloud server owned by GBDi to the Government Data Center and Cloud Service (GDCC) under the control of Office of the Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Public Health, said Ms Tiranee.

Apart from this project, she said, GBDi has also launched various projects to analyse and govern data for public government organisations during the Covid-19 outbreak.

Those projects include a quarantine site operating system, Covid-19 data catalogues, dashboards for presenting data from the Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) and data visualisation.

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