A study on implementation of PKI towards paperless and digitization hospital in Malaysia

Abstract

Recently, Malaysia’s national health statistics show an advancement in term of its quality towards bringing the best services to the nation. One vital determinant that leads to this advancement is the Malaysian government’s involvement in the health industry. However, the Health Information Systems (HIS) deployed seldom face the inadequacy of security protection, either from the systems or data stored. Therefore, this paper aims to resolve this HIS security issue by proposing the implementation of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) in one of the Malaysian government hospital. Three experts’ opinion are collected and all agreed with the proposed PKI solution. By implementing this solution, it is expected that the HIS data security and confidentiality will be consequently improved.