KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 — The Ministry of Health (MOH) will integrate 90,000 medical imaging records into the MySejahtera application in the near term, as part of efforts to consolidate patient data under a single national health record system.
Health Minister Dzulkefly Ahmad said the initiative is aligned with the MOH’s “One Individual, One Record” aspiration, aimed at improving continuity of care, enhancing service delivery efficiency, and reducing duplication of treatment across facilities.
“This initiative is part of MOH’s digitisation agenda to strengthen continuity of care, improve the efficiency of health service delivery, reduce duplication of treatment, and ensure faster and more secure access to information for the relevant health facilities,” Dzulkefly said in a written Dewan Rakyat reply yesterday to Mohd Nazri Abu Hassan (PN-Merbok).
The integration of imaging data – which typically includes radiological investigations such as X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs – marks a further expansion of MySejahtera beyond its initial use during the Covid-19 pandemic into a broader platform for longitudinal health records.
MOH is positioning MySejahtera as a national data integration platform. Dzulkefly said the MOH is “actively implementing [data integration] through the MySejahtera application as a platform for consolidating the people’s health records.”
To date, the MOH has integrated several categories of health data into MySejahtera, including 30 million vaccination records, seven million prescription records, three million dental records, and 2.8 million health screening records.
The imaging component represents the next layer of clinical data to be incorporated into the platform.
The move comes as the MOH continues to roll out electronic medical record (EMR) systems across public health facilities through cloud-based platforms.
The ministry is implementing three core systems according to facility type: the Cloud-Based Clinic Management System (CCMS) for health clinics, the Dental Information System (DIS) for dental clinics, and the Total Hospital Information System (THIS) for hospitals.
The MOH said the adoption of these systems is intended to improve operational efficiency, strengthen data governance, and reduce reliance on manual records.
As of end-2025, 412 government health clinics have been equipped with CCMS, with a further 137 clinics targeted for digitisation in 2026. The remaining 588 clinics are expected to be fully digitised by end-2027.
For dental services, 120 clinics have implemented DIS as of end 2025, with full digitisation of the remaining 458 clinics targeted by 2027.
Hospital digitisation, however, is expected to take longer. While the Total Hospital Information System (THIS) was first introduced in 1999, only 23 hospitals have been equipped with hospital information systems to date. The MOH aims to digitise an additional 16 hospitals in 2026, with the remaining 113 hospitals scheduled for full digitisation by end 2029.
The MOH said comprehensive digitisation of primary health care facilities is expected to be completed earlier, by 2027.
On interoperability, the MOH said it is working to integrate data across the public and private sectors through the implementation of the Malaysia Patient Summary standard under the Malaysia Digital Health Certification Network.
Private health care providers have been engaged to adopt standardised data formats and workflows to enable secure and efficient sharing of patient information, although the MOH did not specify the current level of integration between public and private systems.
The ministry said these efforts are part of a broader push to strengthen the national digital health ecosystem and elevate the level of health care digitisation in Malaysia.
