Friday March 31, 2006
Bulk of RM10.28bil for disease prevention
A SUM of RM10.28bil will be allocated for health sector development, according to the 9MP.
A major portion of this allocation will be set aside for the implementation of public health programmes that include health promotion and disease prevention as well as enhancing human resource development.
Research and development as well as the upgrading and renovation of existing health care facilities will also be given priority.
Information and Communications Technology will be introduced to link public and private health facilities to enable the provision of timely, quality and reliable information.
A National Health Informatics Centre will be established to ensure that all health-related information will be processed centrally.
Priority will be given to the implementation of Telehealth services that will enable the sharing of information through Lifetime Health Record (LHR) and Lifetime Health Plan (LHP) services.
The LHR facilitates integration between providers and enables the provision of seamless and continuous care, while the LHP provides information in relation to various anticipated events in an individual's life including disease prevention and illness management.
The LHR and LHP will be implemented on a pilot basis in Seberang Perai, Penang.
Teleconsultation services will be further expanded to enable the provision of specialist services for the rural population, especially in the states of Sabah and Sarawak.
The use of ICT in the delivery of primary care services will be expanded with the increased coverage of the teleprimary care project to more districts.
The implementation of the hospital information system (HIS) in selected hospitals will further improve health care delivery by providing comprehensive patient information online.
HIS implementation will be undertaken in phases and will include all new and existing hospitals and clinics.
A system-wide information system will be introduced to link public and private facilities, thus allowing the transfer of patient information between providers whenever and wherever required to enable the provision of borderless and continuous care.
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