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In her opening address to the Big Data in Healthcare Forum held recently at Taylor’s University’s Lakeside Campus in Subang Jaya, Selangor, Clinical Research Centre director Dr Goh Pik Pin noted that the Health Ministry (MOH) has a lot of data from the nation’s public healthcare system, but it cannot really be used.
“Last year, when we were doing the healthcare information system, we found a lot of data couldn’t be used because it was stored in various places, in different formats, and with the recent Personal Data Protection Act, it is considered protected and not even available to MOH,” she said.
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