Gitex Global: All Dubai hospitals to join unified patient record system by year end

Gitex Global: All Dubai hospitals to join unified patient record system by year end

Dubai: All of Dubai’s hospitals will be onboarded onto a single electronic medical file by year end.

Dubai Health Authority (DHA) announced this milestone at the ongoing Gitex Global exhibition, which is taking place at the Dubai World Trade Centre.

For patients, this means that they will have one electronic medical file with all their medical reports safety stored. When the patient moves from one facility to another, the medical file will follow.

The project is linked to UAE’s Riyati initiative, ensuring that in future every person in the UAE has one electronic medical file. Additionally, Nabidh will also provide evidence-based gold standard data for public health and wellbeing initiatives to enhance population health and disease prevention.

The initiative enhances efficiency, minimises the risk of medical errors, and empowers patients and healthcare providers, DHA said.

9 million records

By the end of this year, due to Nabidh and UAE’s Riyati project, clinicians across Dubai will be able to access over 9 million unified medical records by 37,748 clinicians and 454 healthcare facilities across Dubai.

Awadh Seghayer Al Ketbi, Director-General, DHA, said: “ In order to serve patients better, enhance efficiencies, reduce waiting time, provide personalized patient-centered care and securely use data to develop public health policies to