I agree with senior health correspondent Salma Khalik that human nature is such that data breaches will happen again (MOH must learn from breaches to build more robust, secure system; Feb 1).
We also cannot expect there to be no errant doctors or medical professionals who try to misuse data or access the system for personal motives.
It may, therefore, be worth rethinking the proposal that requires all healthcare institutions to input the data of their patients electronically so that it can be part of the National Electronic Health Record (NEHR) system, given the spate of incidents involving breach or misuse of data.
There has to be a more secure system that achieves the same objectives without having to amass the data on a common platform.
For example, we can explore the idea of having medical data travel with the patient, by making it mandatory for people to carry a medical record card containing their data in a chip.
More details here:
https://tklcloud.com/Feedback/feedback2.aspx?id=1070
We also cannot expect there to be no errant doctors or medical professionals who try to misuse data or access the system for personal motives.
It may, therefore, be worth rethinking the proposal that requires all healthcare institutions to input the data of their patients electronically so that it can be part of the National Electronic Health Record (NEHR) system, given the spate of incidents involving breach or misuse of data.
There has to be a more secure system that achieves the same objectives without having to amass the data on a common platform.
For example, we can explore the idea of having medical data travel with the patient, by making it mandatory for people to carry a medical record card containing their data in a chip.
More details here:
https://tklcloud.com/Feedback/feedback2.aspx?id=1070
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