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ORAL HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

TELEPRIMARY CARE-ORAL HEALTH CLINICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (TPC-OHCIS)
TPC-OHCIS is a clinical information system project approved under the Public Service Delivery
Transformation (PSDT) Programme by PEMANDU, the government’s Performance and Delivery
Management Unit in the Prime Minister’s Department. A funding of RM30.9 million were provided under
the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) research fund for MIMOS Berhad to develop
an integrated system that enhances electronic health records for health and dental clinics. The system
went live at 13 pilot sites (6 Health Clinics and 7 Dental Clinics) in Negeri Sembilan on 1 June 2017.

At the end of 2017, a total of 51,743 dental patients had been registered into the system with 111,990
visit records created. The system was also used in the outreach services covering 4 preschools, 19
primary schools, 7 secondary schools and 16 community settings.

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TPC-OHCIS Being Used in Patients’ Registration and Dental Laboratory

Source: Oral Health Programme MoH, 2017

DEVELOPMENT OF DENTAL CHARTING MODULE IN PROJEK SISTEM PENGURUSAN PESAKIT
(SPP) HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM (HIS) AND OPERATING THEATRE MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM (OTMS)

MoH has developed the strategic core ICT support towards the establishment of Lifetime Health Record
(LHR) in line with the mission and vision of ICT Strategic Plan, MoH (ISPMOH) 2016 to 2020. The Oral
Health Programme supports these efforts by ensuring the use of standard Dental Charting Module in
different systems developed by MoH. Dental Charting module in TPC-OHCIS will be used as prototypes
in Clinical Documentation (CD) for SPP and OTMS project. The CD SPP and OTMS teams collaborated
with TPC-OHCIS team in the development of Dental Charting module in the system.

PROJECT PELUASAN ORAL HEALTH CLINICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (OHCIS)
This is a continuation of Tenth Malaysia Plan, which involves the upgrading of the ICT infrastructure
for 20 facilities implementing OHCIS and infrastructure readiness for 54 dental clinics without OHCIS
in preparation to implement TPC-OHCIS.

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