UAE Ministry of Health & Prevention Signs Strategic Agreement with Pure Health
UAE, January 29, 2017 - The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) has actually signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Pure Health, a market leading company for technology-driven solutions, to develop a unified medical and health document system. Both parties have entered a strategic future partnership with the objective of establishing a National Unified Medical Record (NUMR) for the UAE.
The MoU was authorized by H.E. Awad Sagher Al Ketbi, Assistant Undersecretary for the UAE Ministry of Health and Avoidance's Support Providers Market, and Pure Health COO Adnan Asif . Additionally, present at the finalizing ceremony were Ali Al-Ajmi, Director of Infotech, and Mubaraka Ibrahim Mubarak, Director of Health Details Management Systems from the Ministry.
Al Ketbi stressed on the relevance of the partnership with Purehealth for NUMR to save the health and medical information for residents and migrants in one unified record to boost medical care services in line with UAE Vision 2021. He called for the sychronisation with the Health Authority Abu Dhabi (HAAD), the Dubai Health Authority (DHA), the Abu Dhabi Health Services (SEHA), the UAE Armed Forces Medical Services, Dubai Health Care City (DHCC), and the Emirates Identity Authority (EIDA) to develop the high quality of medical care services to preserve the privacy of individuals in accordance with the highest worldwide criteria. In addition, he specified that NUMR is among the key tactical goals of the Ministry and makes every effort to attain it.
Both parties will additionally use NUMR to produce the populace health administration system to boost health of the UAE population and advertise their well-being and consequently lower expense of health care solutions. They additionally consented for key contractual arrangement for future strategic partnership in several areas such as the growth and monitoring of NUMR database in UAE, NUMR database holding and info throughout the duration of the agreement, the facility of cases and electronic prescriptions system, creation of the cloud system based on eMR/HIS as the Ministry's product, the administration of the revenue cycle, prepare teams for healthcare departments and consequent activities, and the facility of Centre of Excellence for e-health and smart campaigns
