Future of digital health must be built on clinical reality


Pics pose by Private clinic doctor on October 15 for story on report card on Health Ministry as seeing young doctors die, over work, exhausted plus suicide recent case.—AZMAN GHANI/The Star

THE recent debate around e-MCs (electronic medical certificates), e-prescriptions and telemedicine is important. Malaysia is modernising, adapting to new innovations, improving efficiency and creating a more advanced and interconnected society.

Digital health will undeniably shape our future. But in medicine, progress must be guided, not romanticised. Technology can amplify care. But technology cannot replace the fundamentals of medicine.

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