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Malaysian Health Data Warehouse: Director General of Health cites as the Source of True Comprehensive Healthcare

Malaysian Health Data Warehouse: Director General of Health cites as the Source of True Comprehensive Healthcare

Malaysia’s vision for health is to be a nation of healthy individuals, families and communities based on meeting the following 8 characteristics: Wellness focus, Person focus, Informed persons, Self-help, Care provided at convenient locations, Seamless and continuous care, Service personalisation, and efficient/affordable services

To achieve the vision, primary healthcare will be the thrust of Malaysian Healthcare system. This vision will be supported by secondary care services, which are devolved and regionalised tertiary care services.

This idea is reflected in the Ministry of Health (MOH) Policy Direction for 2013-2016 with the following objectives;

• Strengthening Public Health care (e.g. Family doctor, preventive care)

• Public Private Integration (e.g. Engage GPs)

 • Community empowerment (e.g. Working with other stakeholders, self-empowerment)

 • Care closer to home (e.g. Domiciliary care, step-down care)

• Achieving universal access to quality health care;

• Enhancing targeted support particularly for the underserved

• Improving system delivery for better health outcome

• Expanding capacity to increase accessibility

• Intensifying collaboration with private sector and NGOs to increase health awareness.

OpenGov recently spoke to Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, Director General of Health Malaysia about their current areas of focus, the Malaysian Health Data Warehouse, and how healthcare may use ICT as a business driver in an integrated and quality health services.

Strategies for the 11th Malaysia Plan and the Malaysian Health Data Warehouse

As Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah told us, the current areas of focus and the focus for the next 1-3 years are reflected in the areas/strategies for the 11th Malaysia Plan. This includes the following:

• Strengthening Primary Healthcare

• Health System Delivery and Work Process Reengineering

• Human Resource and Organisational Capacity and Development

• Infrastructure Planning and Development

• ICT Transformation for health

• Public-Private/Inter-agency Collaboration

• Enhancing Healthcare Financing Mechanism

• Creating a Healthy Ecosystem towards healthy lifestyle and disease prevention.

The highlight of what Ministry of Health (MOH) is currently working on includes the National Health System Transformation, Development of Malaysian Health Data Warehouse (MyHDW), and Strengthening of eHealth.

These projects operate in collaboration with MIMOS. MIMOS, government’s ICT research agency, deals with research in ICT and produce patent ICT product. The MyHDW is the first project that will showcase the functionality of the patent ICT product.

National Health System Transformation agenda is a restructured national healthcare system that is responsive and provides choices for quality healthcare, ensuring universal coverage for healthcare needs of population based on solidarity and equity and the component emphasis on service delivery, financing and organisational.

The MyHDW is a trusted source of truth of comprehensive healthcare data structured for query and analysis purposes. The national data warehouse will be developed in phases to collect, consolidate and analyse secondary used data from all healthcare providers in the country.

“MOH is the pioneer for Data Warehouse in Malaysia by using more than 90% local technology (MIMOS) and incorporating technology to handle unstructured data,” Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah told us.

This data warehouse will work to improve health data management, support R&D and innovation initiatives- as well as provide quality service delivery to the citizens.

The MyHDW will have the following characteristics:

• Dedicated system that is optimised for analysis and reporting

• Data is integrated, interoperable and comprehensive

• Build based on national health informatics standards

• Employs an overarching healthcare system governance

• Information available in 'right time'

• Employs the notion of 'build once use many' with the objective of reducing the burden of data collection and processing

• Aligning primary and secondary usage consideration

• Support many reporting and analysis tools and interfaces

• Data Quality is of the highest level and will be supported through appropriate methods, tools and techniques

• Implements secure and privacy sensitive access

The Malaysian Health Data Warehouse (MyHDW) is built based on MIMOS technology with emphasis on the government-owned security system.

It will have a scalable platform on the application that collect encounter data from all healthcare facilities and that feed into the data warehouse.

To include harmonisation of data and codification to SNOMED CT to create a parallel SNOMED CT-coded database along with the existing database.

Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullahemphasised to us that healthcare data comes from 20% structured data and 80% of unstructured data. The technology is currently geared towards securing structured data.

“With the implementation of MiHarmony, MyHDW will be able to generate more of unstructured data. Further development of MyHDW will cater for the Business Intelligence that provides a function for self-service query so that easier and faster access of information for policy decision making,” Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah stated.

“In the later period when the Patient Registry Information System (PRIS) is in place it will facilitate faster and better clinical decision making.”

We continue our two part interview with Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, Director General of Health Malaysia tomorrow…

PARTNER

Qlik’s vision is a data-literate world, where everyone can use data and analytics to improve decision-making and solve their most challenging problems. A private company, Qlik offers real-time data integration and analytics solutions, powered by Qlik Cloud, to close the gaps between data, insights and action. By transforming data into Active Intelligence, businesses can drive better decisions, improve revenue and profitability, and optimize customer relationships. Qlik serves more than 38,000 active customers in over 100 countries.

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CTC Global Singapore, a premier end-to-end IT solutions provider, is a fully owned subsidiary of ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) and ITOCHU Corporation.

Since 1972, CTC has established itself as one of the country’s top IT solutions providers. With 50 years of experience, headed by an experienced management team and staffed by over 200 qualified IT professionals, we support organizations with integrated IT solutions expertise in Autonomous IT, Cyber Security, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure, Workplace Modernization and Professional Services.

Well-known for our strengths in system integration and consultation, CTC Global proves to be the preferred IT outsourcing destination for organizations all over Singapore today.

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Planview has one mission: to build the future of connected work. Our solutions enable organizations to connect the business from ideas to impact, empowering companies to accelerate the achievement of what matters most. Planview’s full spectrum of Portfolio Management and Work Management solutions creates an organizational focus on the strategic outcomes that matter and empowers teams to deliver their best work, no matter how they work. The comprehensive Planview platform and enterprise success model enables customers to deliver innovative, competitive products, services, and customer experiences. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with locations around the world, Planview has more than 1,300 employees supporting 4,500 customers and 2.6 million users worldwide. For more information, visit www.planview.com.

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SIRIM is a premier industrial research and technology organisation in Malaysia, wholly-owned by the Minister​ of Finance Incorporated. With over forty years of experience and expertise, SIRIM is mandated as the machinery for research and technology development, and the national champion of quality. SIRIM has always played a major role in the development of the country’s private sector. By tapping into our expertise and knowledge base, we focus on developing new technologies and improvements in the manufacturing, technology and services sectors. We nurture Small Medium Enterprises (SME) growth with solutions for technology penetration and upgrading, making it an ideal technology partner for SMEs.

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HashiCorp provides infrastructure automation software for multi-cloud environments, enabling enterprises to unlock a common cloud operating model to provision, secure, connect, and run any application on any infrastructure. HashiCorp tools allow organizations to deliver applications faster by helping enterprises transition from manual processes and ITIL practices to self-service automation and DevOps practices. 

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IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Nearly 3,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and business services deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service.

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