KUALA LUMPUR: Negeri Sembilan will be the first state to go paperless, with full electronic medical records in public hospitals and clinics, health minister Khairy Jamaluddin said today.
“We will be choosing the vendors soon based on an open tender and we will upgrade and deploy new electronic medical records in all public hospitals in Negeri Sembilan as well as health clinics.
“Once that deployment is successful, we will be able to go nationwide,” he said, according to Bernama.
A paperless record-keeping system had been proposed in 2019 by the previous government, with the health minister then, Dr Dzulkefli Ahmad, saying tenders would be called later that year.
“We don’t want a repeat of the mistake by the previous administration,” he was reported as saying. However, no further announcement was made.
He said 35 of the 145 government hospitals were already equipped with a hospital information system at the time, while 118 of 1,703 government clinics had been equipped with a clinical information system.
Khairy’s announcement today came after the launching of a technology hub involving four hospitals and the national cancer institute.
The four hospitals are Putrajaya Hospital, Tunku Azizah Hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Bera Hospital in Pahang and Rembau Hospital in Negeri Sembilan.
The five institutions would lead the way in using technology such as robotics, said science, technology and innovation minister Dr Adham Baba at the launch of the National Technology and Innovation Sandbox hub at MRANTI Park in Bukit Jalil.
Khairy said the hubs were part of the health ministry’s plans to move away from sick care to healthcare and wellness. “For too long we’ve spent too much money on the curative side of healthcare, sick care basically, treating people once they become sick.
“We need to shift some of that investment into keeping people healthy, making sure they don’t fall sick,” he said. - FMT
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