Current status, challenges and needs for Pilgrim Health Record Management sharing network, the case of Malaysia

Abstract

Background: Providing healthcare services to travelers has become very difficult especially when there is an urgent need to access their health records. During the pilgrim season, in Makkah, Madinah and Jeddah, the hospitals are having great difficulties in providing healthcare services to all the pilgrims. This paper discusses the current situation of pilgrim health record management in Malaysia and probe challenges and needs for implementing electronic medical records sharing framework Methods: A number of studies are scrutinized to establish the issues involved in creating, archiving, accessing, updating and sharing electronic patient health records. These issues include technical barriers,data integrity and security, individual privacy and confidentiality, and trust in the receiver and its environment to correctly implement policies and vice-versa.A structured interview survey was conducted to gather data on the current practice of health record management by TabungHaji. Findings:After analyzing the findings, several possible approaches are suggested for TabungHajitotake towards collaboration with the global health system.

IOT Service Utilisation in Healthcare

“…• Security and privacy: due to security and privacy concerns [44][45][46], many physicians and healthcare providers prefer to store patient records on computers or local systems that are not connected to the Internet [47]. Despite the benefits of large-scale HIE, a comparative study of the medical record exchange practices in Australia, Canada Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, the UK and the US [48] revealed that Germany lacks a single approach for HIE and that healthcare software companies have achieved minimal success in their development of infrastructures where physicians can exchange clinical data due to security concerns.…”