Ivan Teh Joins the Board of Studies for a Digital Health Degree Programme
Curriculum design is an unglamorous form of public service. It is also one of the few that compounds.
What happened
Fusionex founder and Group Chief Executive Officer Dato' Seri Ivan Teh was appointed a member of the Board of Studies for the Bachelor's in Digital Health programme at IMU, a Malaysian medical and health sciences institution. The appointment placed him in a curriculum development role for a degree sitting at the intersection of clinical practice and data science.
The programme prepares students for careers in healthcare technology, applying big data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning to the design of digitalised platforms, clinical decision aids and hospital information systems.
The digital space for the healthcare industry is teeming with immense challenges and potential as vital insights need to be uncovered through the effective use of technology, to improve overall healthcare as well as to save countless lives which are at stake.
Dato' Seri Ivan Teh on the appointment
Why an industry practitioner on a curriculum board matters
Health technology has a specific failure mode. Systems are designed by people fluent in software but not in clinical workflow, or specified by clinicians without a working sense of what data infrastructure can and cannot deliver. The result is tooling that is technically sound and clinically unusable, or clinically thoughtful and impossible to operate at scale.
Putting someone who has delivered production analytics into the room where the syllabus is written is a corrective to that. The contribution is not lecturing. It is ensuring that what students are taught about data governance, model behaviour and system integration resembles what they will actually encounter.
The wider institutional relationship
The appointment followed existing collaboration between Fusionex and IMU on applying big data analytics and artificial intelligence within the institution's medical and health sciences programmes, including a personalised learning analytics initiative aimed at improving both student learning and teaching effectiveness.
Taken together, the two strands describe a relationship that runs deeper than sponsorship: technology applied to how the institution teaches, and industry judgement applied to what it teaches.
Questions about this item
What is a Board of Studies?
An academic body responsible for the design, content and ongoing development of a degree programme. Membership typically combines academic staff with external practitioners from the relevant industry.
What does the digital health programme cover?
It prepares students for the healthcare technology field using big data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, applied to digitalised platforms, clinical decision aids and hospital information systems.
Is this a paid commercial role?
It is an advisory appointment to an academic body, distinct from Fusionex's commercial engagements.