2015 Guest Speaker

Dr. Ariffin Marzuki bin Mokhtar is a National Specialist Registered (NSR) Anesthesiologist that graduated from the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) (2002), and is currently practicing as a Consultant Anesthesiologist at the National Heart Institute (Institut Jantung Negara-IJN), Malaysia. He is a Certified Professional in Health Information Management and Systems (CPHIMS), a Certified IT Architect- Associate (CITA-A), COBIT 5 and Open Group Architecture Framework 9.1 Certified. Apart from clinical practice in Cardiac Anesthesia and Critical Care, his current job scope as the Director of Health Informatics (DHI) for IJN includes implementation of IJNs Enterprise Architecture initiatives, advising the IJNs BOD and Management on matters pertaining to Information system Governance, best practices and supporting the IJNs accreditations initiatives that includes the JCI, MSQH, ISO 9001:2008, ISO 27001 and HACCP. He was involved with the JCI accreditation as a working committee member for JCI accreditation from 2007 and a permanent member of the Quality Committee up to 2013, after which he assumed the DHI post. His current interest apart from clinical work in Anesthesia and Critical Care are the use of technology as an enabling tool to deliver high quality and safe care to patients including training and education of healthcare providers in using technology tools, development of clinical pathways, modeling clinical care, performance measure, healthcare organization transformation governance and management, healthcare business architecture and activity based costing and management. He is a contributor for the IASA ITABoK writing the topic of Business Strategy.