Ong Hua has over 20 years of experience in internal audit (IA) and external audit (EA). She was with SingHealth Group Internal Audit Department before she was transferred to MOHH in year 2010. Her IA experience in the public healthcare industry includes mainly financial, operational audits along with advisory works and reporting to management of cluster, institution and Audit Committees.
Her external auditing experience were gained from international accounting firms (Deloitte & Touche and RSM Chio Lim) prior to advancing her career with SingHealth. Her diversified client portfolio includes public-listed and privately owned entities from industries such as manufacturing, shipping, property and construction. Her scope of works included financial audits, review of operations process and workflow, due diligence review, advisory works and Initial Public Offering listing exercise.
Synopsis
In a move towards a hassle-free healthcare system, the public healthcare structure had gone through integration, moving from a 2 cluster system in the 1990s to a multiple-cluster system of Academic Medical Centres and Regional Healthcare Systems in the 21st century. These changes impact the integration of processes such as the procurement and the accompanying governance framework. The integration of process and systems bring along the centralisation of data, opening a new horizon for audit and the use of data analytics as one of the auditing tools. In this session, we will discuss the consequential changes on the directives and landscape of audit brought upon with the public healthcare systems integration.