HIMSS UAE eHealth Week 2019

Startup building user-centric health record on blockchain

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Medicalchain SVP of Operations Wael Alkhalidi said the company is using distributed ledger technology to enable patients to find all their medical data in one place.

 

Vocera exec explains new Smartbadge

The concept was born out of a need to integrate Vocera’s badge technology and smartphone capabilities into a single device, says the company's Senior Clinical Executive Steven Matarelli.
 

A look at the Dubai Health Authority's patient matching work

DHA nurse Ashish Ann John describes the agency's initiative to integrate devices and informatics with the EHR to improve experience for pediatric patients.
 

Dubai Hospital exec on 30-year journey to HIMSS Analytics EMRAM Stage 6

Fahad Ali Nasir Nasiri, Head of the Health Information Management Section at Dubai Hospital, explains how the system went from entirely paper-based in the 1980s to almost entirely paper-less today and moving toward EMRAM Stage 7.

 

State of health IT in the Middle East? Heading toward patient-centric care

Health IT in the region is moving in the right direction but still needs improved efficiency amid rising expectations and similar or shrinking budgets, says Wolters Kluwer Channel Partner and Alliances Manager Hany Rakha.