Interoperability

Digital health experts, speaking at HIMSS21 Middle East, say there’s a new and more intense focus on the analysis of health data to advance population health management in the Middle East. 

Healthcare leaders speaking during the opening keynote of Day Two at HIMSS21 Middle East say that Saudi Arabia hopes to complete its digital transformation within four years and that Abu Dhabi has connected all of its hospitals and most of its clinics.

It is first specialist trust in the UK and first paediatric hospital in Europe to achieve the highest level of digital maturity.

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The four-year agreement is estimated to be worth £5 billion.

For now, the service enables the sharing of discharge summaries with health providers across the state.

The grant for the trusts will help improve digital and data solutions in the roll-out of a national programme.

Raising digital maturity in the Middle East is a key focus in many GCC markets and HIMSS has therefore announced a high-level Dubai CIO Summit, on 23 January 2022, to drive regional and international exchange in support of ongoing digital maturity initiatives.

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Though deeply challenging on so many levels, the COVID cloud has had some silver linings for healthcare. One has been a growing realisation of the critical importance of interoperability between systems for telehealth to fulfil its potential, as a new webinar explores.