Quality Improvement Team (QIT) known as CTwarriors from the Department of Biomedical Imaging has won the Third Prize among the 20 Best Public Sector (Federal) category in the Annual Productivity & Innovation Conference and Exposition (APIC) 2019, which was held from 5-7 November 2019 at the Sunway Pyramid Convention Center.

The quality improvement project titled “CT Chest Abdomen Pelvis: Optimizing Contrast Media Based on Body Weight and Bolus Tracking Method” has also received a 5 Star (Gold Award) at the national convention for cost savings and ensuring patient safety. With this award, the CTwarriors team will compete internationally at Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2020.

The APIC 2019 event is an annual program organized by the Malaysian Productivity Corporation (MPC) aimed at providing a platform for various industries to share best practices in improving productivity, quality, innovation, service delivery and customer satisfaction. This year''s program was attended by 300 groups representing 125 organizations sharing their effectiveness on productivity improvement projects at their respective organizations.

It is hoped that this success will inspire all the staff of UMMC to pursue quality improvement activities continuously at their respective departments or units.

Congratulations to CTwarriors team on their success and achievement! All the best in competing at international platform in 2020.