Health Information Management (HIM) / Medical Records (MR) practitioners in Malaysia need to be aware of government statutes – especially those which may directly or indirectly affect healthcare in general and HIM / MR management in particular in Malaysia, while they go about discharging the duties.
I have a list below of Malaysian laws which I think may directly or indirectly affect healthcare in Malaysia. This is just a list in alphabetical order, and I suggest Health Information Management (HIM) / Medical Records (MR) practitioners explore any of them to increase their legal awareness to help them understand their legal rights, remedies, responsibilities & obligations.
I am no law expert, and this condensed list (each table of this list will open in a new tab of your current window for a larger view of each table) will not be here on this post if not for the complete list of the Laws of Malaysia (LOM) series available online from Mylawyer.com.my (this link will open in a new tab of your current browser window), Malaysia’s free online legal resource, providing free legal information, articles, and government statutes. To quote Mylawyer.com.my :
“the following …… alphabetical list of laws in the Laws of Malaysia (LOM) series up to Act 655. The LOM series is a compilation and reprint of laws published in volume form pursuant to Section 14A of the Revision of Laws Act 1968 [Act 1]. It is the only official and authoritative publication of the laws of Malaysia. The LOM series incorporates all principal laws of Malaysia enacted after 1969 and pre-1969 laws which have been revised by the Commissioner of Law Revision. There are 40 volumes in the LOM series comprising the Federal Constitution in volume 1 and Acts 1 to 655 from volumes 2 to 40. The LOM series incorporates all amendments up to 1 January 2006 except otherwise indicated in the relevant law.”
Suggestions are welcome to improve this list.
I have also quoted some of these laws from the list above in previous post of the blog.
References:
MyLawyer.com.my, 2013, viewed 9 February 2013,< http://www.mylawyer.com.my/index.php >
Thank you for the list. Here are 2 more Acts which may be relevant to the healthcare in Malaysia:
1. The Personal Data Protection Act 2010
2. The Evidence Act 1950, Section 90A
Section 90A may be relevant in terms of e-Medical Record/Reports
Pn Letifah, many thanks for your feedback.
I shall update the list with regards to “Documents Produced by a Computer, Section 90A. Admissibility of documents produced by computers, and of statements contained therein”and PDPA 2010, as suggested by you, in due course. I had also been informed about PDPA 2010 by another blog reader.