UAE Business: DHA introduces value-based healthcare in Dubai – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: DHA introduces value-based healthcare in Dubai – Gulf Digital News

The Dubai Health Authority’s (DHA) Health Insurance Corporation, which regulates the health insurance sector in Dubai, has launched the first-of-its-kind value-based healthcare model for the emirate.

The model known as Ejadah is a value-based model rather than volume-based healthcare.

At the launch of the event, which was attended by all health providers, insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies, DHA’s Director-General Awadh Seghayer Al Ketbi said in line with the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, DHA is implementing policies and regulations to further accelerate the development of the health sector keeping patient centricity as priority and ensuring all stakeholders are taken into consideration and work in collaboration with a common vision to advance the health sector in Dubai and to establish the emirate as a medical tourism hub.

Value-based model

He added that the value-based model will further improve health services and enhance preventive care which will lead to better population health and reduced healthcare expenditure.

The value-based healthcare model will pay for performance and outcomes that matter to patients, it will provide healthcare service providers with evidence-based guidelines which will be a framework for all physicians to follow with regard