11/02/2013

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.”