The comprehensive digital health transformation aims to ensure that each individual has only one health record accessible across both government and private health facilities, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad in his New Year's address to the ministry’s staff on Friday (Jan 26).
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00:00 We can visualize the journey that we are in together.
00:07 This is the culmination of what will result from the journey we are together for the next four or five years.
00:18 That will be the powering a connected Malaysian healthcare ecosystem.
00:25 I have mentioned to the officials in the Digital Health Division,
00:34 who will be appointed soon,
00:39 that this is a story from five years ago.
00:46 But if I look at it, what will be the framework at the end of our journey
01:00 is a digital architecture of reform.
01:04 If this is what it is now, the heartbeat, the backbone, the spine of the reform lies in the EMR.
01:15 We will see how the seamless connectivity to all facilities,
01:21 all that will be connected and data pipeline,
01:25 will actually make all our facilities,
01:32 between clinics, horizontal integration,
01:37 and also vertical integration with hospitals.
01:41 I even plan to break down the dichotomy of public-private health structure in our country.
01:52 With this empowering EMR or EHR,
02:01 we will be able to witness that the entire country will be connected into a seamless,
02:08 where there will be only one citizen, one record, the master patient index.
02:12 Everywhere a patient goes, he or she must ask the same questions once.
02:20 You got it.
02:22 [END]