HMC Mental Health Service wins Oracle Cerner honour – The Peninsula

HMC Mental Health Service wins Oracle Cerner honour – The Peninsula

Doha: Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) Mental Health Service was recently announced as a joint winner of the Oracle Cerner ‘Achievement in User Experience’ award during the awards ceremony at the Oracle Cerner Middle East and Africa Collaboration Forum in Dubai.

The ‘behavioural health implementation with first Middle East Behavioural Health Essential Clinical Dataset’ project was recognized for focusing on specialized documentation for mental health patients, with a key focus on patient confidentiality.

The award was collected by Dr. Raed Amro, Assistant Executive Director of the Mental Health Service at the MHS on behalf of HMC: “Mental health records fall within general protected health information, therefore, we were keen to enhance the process of recording patient data in the system that is both efficient and safe.”

“We collaborated with the Oracle Cerner team and our in-house Health Information and Communications Technology Department in the creation of an essential data set. This was a game-changer especially for nurses to help decrease the amount of time they spend on documentation leading to more time spent with the patient. Interdisciplinary collaboration is key to developing practical solutions for typical challenges, and I am pleased with how well the Oracle Cerner team worked with our teams at HMC