Malaysian state Kedah eyes HIS migration to cloud

A system breakdown of the Total Hospital Information System used in the northern state of Kedah in Malaysia forced clinicians to go manual for at least a day.

On 11 August, the tHIS went down due to a glitch in one of its application servers, disrupting the services of public hospitals and health facilities across the state, including the 500-bed general hospital Sultan Abdul Halim Hospital, the Sungai Petani public health clinic, and a…