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COMMENT | Big data worth billions for MySejahtera

COMMENT | Further questions are pouring in over the Health Ministry’s MySejahtera app, reviving previous concerns over who really owns and controls the app and the kind of data gathering and processing power that the app has, its value and what it can be harnessed for.

Preliminary back-of-the-envelope calculations we have done and industry reports and conversations with those in the business indicate that the value of the data, especially when it is processed, can be in the billions of ringgit.

Latest revelations by medical news portal Code Blue have opened yet another can of worms by exposing court documents which suggest that MySJ owns the MySejahtera platform and intellectual property (IP) rights.

Code Blue reported...


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