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Kuwait advancing health sector with electronic systems

Global Arab Network - - Rabih Serrai

Monday, 03 May 2010 00:45

Kuwait has worked out plans for upgrading data systems matching international standards in all sectors of the Health Ministry, a Kuwaiti official said.

Undersecretary of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health Dr. Ibrahim Al-Abdulhadi said his ministry was keen on promoting the applications of the electronic health systems at its departments.

"Minister Dr. Hilal Al-Sayer and other leaders of the ministry attribute great importance to the efforts aiming to cope with the world's latest developments in the domains of e-health andgenomic information," Dr. Al-Abdulhadi told KUNA on the sidelines of the Saudi e-Health Conference 2010.

The conference, organized by Saudi Association for Health Informatics (SAHI), opened earlier in the day under the patronage of Prince Mugren Bin Abdulaziz - president of the General Intelligence and the honorary chairman of the SAHI.

"The ministry is introducing new capabilities to its information systems in a bid to integrate genomic information and clinical experience and keep pace with the global developments in this vital domain," he affirmed.

"E-health and GE healthcare are among the agenda items of the meetings of the ministers of health of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states," he noted.

Dr. Al-Abdulhadi added that he and his delegation are taking part in the conference under an invitation from Saudi Minister of Health Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabi'a.

He is accompanied by Director of the Ministry's Information Systems Division Salah Baqer and chief of the undersecretary's office Hussein Farraj.

The three-day gathering aims to develop a clinical knowledge platform for both healthcare providers and information technologists.

On the other hand, Updating the information systems is one of the major objectives of the ministry, said Dr. Ali Al-Fodari, the advisor of the undersecretary of the ministry, in a statement to KUNA on the occasion of his participation along with other officials of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health at the e-government services conference.

Kuwait, like other states of the world, has adopted the e-government programs to facilitate work and contacts among the public sectors, he said, adding that the Kuwaiti participation in the convention was aimed at studying the experience of Singapore in the employment of technology in the health field.

The Ministry of Health of Kuwait is seeking to set up an integrated electronic communication network to link up all sectors and departments of the ministry including hospitals, medical centers and clinics, said Dr. Al-Fodari.

The MoH has already begun applying the e-files system for preliminary health care and plans to expand it to incorporate the engineering sector, the citizen's service, the e-communication and the work shifts system.

On Saturday, Chairperson of board of directors of New Frontiers company Dr. Orooba Watar announced participation of the Kuwaiti delegation representing various government bodies in the e-government services conference held here. She added in remarks to (KUNA) that the conference aimed at presenting the experience of the e-government of offering better electronic services in order to promote the development of the countries.

The gathering also aims at discussing plans and notions for improving the e-government services, in comparison with the successful experience in this field in Singapore, Watar noted.

She added that that participants would involve in a number of field trips to senior institutions and ministries in Singapore, with high experience in the field of e-government services. (KUNA)

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