Digital health Archives

21 July 2025

Letter

MOH Must Revisit Online Healthcare Guidelines 2025: Public Safety Is At Risk — Dr James Jeremiah

MOH must immediately revisit and rewrite these guidelines, not just as a regulatory clean-up, but as a national duty to protect public health in the digital age.

17 July 2025

Malaysia

Foodpanda And Heydoc Health Pilot Outpatient Care For Gig Workers

Foodpanda Malaysia and Heydoc Health launch futureK, Malaysia’s first outpatient care pilot programme for gig workers that provides digital health services like teleconsults and e-prescriptions. Coverage is also extended to family members.

29 May 2025

Malaysia

UPM Raises Diabetes Awareness In The Community

At AMSA-UPM's Diabetes Day 2025 event, an MOH official says diabetes is not only a medical issue, but a social one. "The solution requires a cross-sectoral approach involving education policies, urban planning, community engagement, and economic support."

22 April 2025

World

Is India Ready For The Shift To Health Care 5.0?

India needs to address challenges of policy, infrastructure, and trained professionals to embrace the future of health care.

5 February 2025

Malaysia

MOH Mulls Digital Medical Certificates, E-Prescriptions

MOH is exploring electronic medical certificates and prescriptions as part of health care digitalisation. However, legal and policy changes are needed to ensure their validity. "Everything is going 'e'," says MOH digital health director Dr Mahesh Appannan.

4 February 2025

Malaysia

MOH To Deploy Off-The-Shelf Cloud EMR Systems Across Public Health Facilities

MOH plans to adopt subscription-based cloud EMR systems for public hospitals and clinics, choosing off-the-shelf solutions over custom ones. Dr Mahesh Appannan says that while the MOH will use external platforms, it will retain full ownership of its data.

22 November 2024

Malaysia

Health Sector Hungry For ‘Digital Front Door’: MOH Official

MOH digital health director Dr Mahesh Appannan says Malaysia has vast but underutilised reserves of health data from health records, genomic banks, and wearables. He says digital health should be viewed as a long-term investment, citing opportunity cost.

31 May 2024

Malaysia

How Senior Citizens Can Stay Independent And Healthy With Samsung Galaxy Watch6

Samsung Malaysia says Galaxy Watch6 Series is the only smartwatch with all 3 features: blood pressure, ECG and body composition. The wearable is customisable for senior citizens to easily monitor chronic health conditions, besides a fall detection feature.

20 May 2024

Letter

Open Letter To The Top Bureaucrat In MOH (Part 1) — Dr Musa Mohd Nordin

In a letter to MOH's top bureaucrat, Dr Musa Mohd Nordin suggests that MOH learn from the paediatric fraternity on how to use AI and a Health Information System to resolve the maldistribution of doctors, citing also lessons from MNCs and aviation industry.

26 March 2024

Malaysia

Dr Dzul’s Ambitious National EMR Plan Covers Private Facilities, Public Health Data

Dr Dzul plans for a national EMR system covering both public and private health care facilities that enables precision medicine, and also precision public health from big data analytics. Selayang Hospital will be the first hospital to pioneer the system.

Tag: Digital health

MOH Must Revisit Online Healthcare Guidelines 2025: Public Safety Is At Risk — Dr James Jeremiah

Foodpanda And Heydoc Health Pilot Outpatient Care For Gig Workers

UPM Raises Diabetes Awareness In The Community

Is India Ready For The Shift To Health Care 5.0?

MOH Mulls Digital Medical Certificates, E-Prescriptions

MOH To Deploy Off-The-Shelf Cloud EMR Systems Across Public Health Facilities

Health Sector Hungry For ‘Digital Front Door’: MOH Official

How Senior Citizens Can Stay Independent And Healthy With Samsung Galaxy Watch6

Open Letter To The Top Bureaucrat In MOH (Part 1) — Dr Musa Mohd Nordin

Dr Dzul’s Ambitious National EMR Plan Covers Private Facilities, Public Health Data

After 15 Years Of Training, This Is What A Subspecialist Doctor Earns In Malaysia — Physician

Master’s Graduates Run Hospitals On ‘Study Leave’ But Can’t Apply For Subspecialty Training — Physician

House Officers Are Treated Like Modern Slaves — Dr Ghazali Ahmad

Medical Officer Duties, Service Load Strain FMS Gazettement Training — Government Doctor

Beyond Turf: Safeguarding Malaysia’s Clinical Core Before It Thins — Dr Musa Mohd Nordin