Star: KLANG: A total of 121 of 135 government hospitals will have a digital filing system to speed up the retrieval of patient records, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai.
“I notice that there are still many hospitals using conventional filing to keep records and they spent up to 15 minutes to look for them. It is too long.
“If we use digital filing, we can retrieve the information accurately and instantly,” he told a news conference after visiting the Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital here yesterday.
Liow said the Government would have to plan carefully for a digital filing system rollout because it was expensive.
Old hospitals like Kuala Lumpur Hospital and Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital would be installed with the system first if the Government decides to follow through with the plan, he said.
At present, only 14 hospitals have a digital filing system including those in Serdang, Selayang, Putrajaya, Ampang and Sungai Buloh.
“It takes time to migrate from a manual system to a digital system. In Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital alone, 14 cabins are being used for storing medical records ... this is a huge amount of records,” he said.
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