The records a Malaysian clinic must keep
A Malaysian private clinic carries record-keeping obligations under the Poisons Act 1952, the Private Healthcare Facilities and Services Act 1998, the Personal Data Protection Act 2010, service tax legislation and LHDN's e-Invoice regime — these pages explain each one in full.
These pages exist because the answers are hard to find in one place and easy to get wrong. Two of them — the scope of the Prescription Book, and who may witness a psychotropic disposal — are things we found stated incorrectly in widely circulated summaries, so we read the statute instead.
The obligations, one by one
What must go in the Prescription Book
The fields, the timing, and the thing most clinics get wrong about Group B.
Third SchedulePsychotropic substances in a clinic
The running balance, the disposal witness rule, and what an officer actually asks for.
Service taxService tax on non-Malaysian patients
Who it applies to, why the consultation line matters, and the turnover threshold.
LHDN MyInvoise-Invoice for clinics
Who is in scope and when, what the file contains, and what to prepare now.
Act 586Medical records: what to keep and for how long
Why a record that can be quietly edited is not a record, and what retention means.
PDPA 2010PDPA for clinics, after the 2024 amendment
Cross-border transfer after the amendment, and why on-premises removes most of the question.
Notifiable diseasesNotifiable diseases and e-Notifikasi
Why the alert has to appear at diagnosis, not at month end.
Watch it survive an outage
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