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The annual publication of NHA technical report provides valuable information for various health
transformation endeavors and assists to better understand the national trends in health expenditure.
It provides a clearer picture of funding, distribution and types of healthcare services within the country.

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS

On behalf of the Planning Division, MNHA continued to be involved with many National and International
projects/programmes. MNHA played an important role in analysing and extracting data to assist in several
National Projects such as MoH’s publication: Health Facts, data requests in preparation for Healthcare
Sector Transformation activities and for ad hoc requests relating to national health expenditure from
national agencies and local universities as well as in preparation for top level management speeches.

At international level, MNHA actively participated and continued to be involved in international
collaborations and data submissions. NHA time series national health expenditure estimation by
MNHA Section was submitted to several international agencies such as WHO Geneva for World Health
Statistics, Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED) and Health at a Glance (HAG).

As mentioned in earlier MoH reports, MNHA already began to work towards using the revised version of
System of Health Accounts (SHA 2011). With the guidance from consultant appointed by WHO, MNHA
has progressed to develop the methodology to map and create MNHA 2 classifications/framework.
This MNHA 2 classification will be in line with the original MNHA classifications and local policy needs,
while still based on the new international SHA 2011 framework. MNHA’s work and contribution adds
value to many financial policy decisions at national, regional and international levels.

HEALTH INFORMATICS CENTRE

Health informatics is a discipline at the intersection of information science, computer science, and health
care. It deals with the resources, devices, and methods required in optimizing the acquisition, storage,
retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine. In its simplest term, health informatics is
about getting the right information from the right source to the right person at the right time. It is critical
to the delivery of information to healthcare professionals, so they can deliver the most appropriate care.

MALAYSIAN HEALTH DATA WAREHOUSE (MyHDW)

Ministry of Health (MoH) began the implementation of the start-up phase of MyHDW in 2015. This
initiative builds on previous work based on the blueprint produced in 2011 to 2013. MyHDW initial
phases established the basic infrastructure and capabilities for this national analytic system and has
been designed to scale and expand to include and integrate additional datasets over several phases.
The core analytic functionality associated with the system pertains to secondary data usage capability,
in which data collected for clinical purposes can be utilised for statistical reporting in a secure and
privacy-sensitive manner after careful anonymization and de-identification process.

MyHDW, which is a state-of-the-art home-grown data warehouse system was launched by Yang
Berhormat Datuk Seri Dr. S. Subramaniam, Minister of Health Malaysia on 18 April 2018 (Image 6).
This technology is coherent with National Health Transformation Plan, whereby among the cornerstone
of the transformation programme is to leverage on technology and intelligent solutions to encourage
innovation. This unique data warehouse system was built based on strong collaboration and smart

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