UPL Lao Co., Ltd the master developer of Dongphosy Specific Economic Zone (DSEZ), Laos has awarded a contract to novaCITYNETS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nova MSC Berhad to provide Building Information Modelling (BIM) services. Covering an area of 53.9 hectares in the capital city Vientiane, DSEZ is one of Laos government’s key initiatives in spurring economic progress. DSEZ is…
NOVACITYNETS, a wholly owned subsidiary of NOVA MSC, awarded a RM9.1 million contract from Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority. The Board of Directors of Nova MSC Berhad is pleased to announce that the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary novaCITYNETS Pte Ltd (“NCN”) has won the tender from Building and Construction Authority in Singapore (“BCA”) to upgrade, manage, operate, support and enhance the…
Managing the impact of data growth on an application performance is a constant challenge for a database administrator. With Oracle Database 12cTM, the latest generation of the world’s #1 database, enterprise applications can fully tap into the new database features to reap the benefits of the cloud computing, management flexibility and cost savings. Nova is pleased to announce that VESALIUS…
Malaysia is set to introduce a goods and services tax (GST) effective from 1 April 2015. While it has been announced that healthcare services will be exempted, hospitals belong in a mix supplies environment, i.e. providing both taxable and exempt supplies/services. Having been implemented in countries that apply GST such as Singapore, China and Vietnam, VESALIUS has many existing features…
Sengkang Hospital is the central part of an integrated healthcare system planned to cater to needs of the population in the northeast of Singapore. Aside from the 1,000 beds in the general hospital offering acute care services, the new development will be linked to partners such as primary care physicians, polyclinics, nursing homes and a 400-bed community hospital to form…
The Legal Aid Bureau (LAB), a department under the Ministry of Law, Singapore has recently awarded to novaCITYNETS, a subsidiary of Nova MSC Berhad the project to implement the LAB Case System. The project is known as GENIE that stands for paper-less (Green) Intelligent E-System. The introduction of GENIE will see the automation and streamlining of entire case management processes…
The release of VESALIUS 11.1 in the 2nd quarter of 2014 promises to bring exciting enhancements to our flagship solution. The new version sees a complete revamp of our Clinical Toolkit, a sub-module that facilitates clinical documentation through a library of medical images and tools to annotate and draw on these images. Developed using HTML5, the Clinical Toolkit promises better…
While the use of Buddhist calendar in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Sri Lanka is confined to religious occasions, it remains the official calendar in Thailand. In the upcoming version 11, VESALIUS will allow the user to have the option of selecting either a Gregorian or Buddhist calendar. Once selected, the date fields in the screens will display dates according to…
Nova congratulates Singapore National Skin Centre (NSC) on their achievement of becoming the first medical centre in Asia Pacific to achieve HIMSS Stage 6 of the Primary Care Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (PC-EMRAM). This award is given to hospitals that have demonstrated the adoption of advanced level of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in outpatient care. The award places NSC…
The traditional process of building plans submission and approval is laborious and often fraught with challenges due to the huge number of building by-laws, sometimes cryptic interpretations of the regulations and the need for trained experts to decipher the layers of information contained in the plans. Thus, it is no surprise when oversights are common and seeking final approval is…
27 Nov 2013 – To ensure their nursing students are equipped with adequate skills to fit into the workforce, Singapore’s Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) together with Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) launched the NYP-HIMSS Centre of Excellence. As part of the course, nursing students are trained to use IT solutions found in a modern care delivery setting such as…
Windows 8, the newest version of the Windows operating system from Microsoft, was officially available from end October 2012. With the announcement of VESALIUS 10.1, novaHEALTH has also kept abreast of technology changes and released a version that runs on Windows 8, and more specifically Internet Explorer (IE) 10. The latest version takes advantage of the Windows 8 – IE…