During a visit to Prince Hamzah Hospital, where the project was launched, King Abdullah also instructed the government to provide the state-run hospital with the equipment and staff needed to provide advanced services to citizens.
His Majesty was briefed on the project, which will be initially implemented at the hospital, Al Hussein Cancer Centre and Amman Comprehensive Healthcare Centre starting spring 2010. The plan will expand to cover all of the Kingdom's public and military hospitals in six to seven years, according to its director, Ghassan Lahham.
The project will serve as a bank of every patient's medical history and include all tests, procedures and surgeries undergone by patients, in addition to the diseases from which they suffer, their allergies, the medications they take and other health information.
"This will save time and effort, reduce reliance on paperwork and reduce the waste of drugs as medics will know the medical history of each patient in few seconds by using the system," Minister of Health Nayef Fayez said Tuesday.
The system also seeks to minimise medical errors and provide accurate information on patients, said the minister, adding it will reduce pressure on medical facilities.
The project is initiated by e-Health Solutions, a nonprofit company that has as stakeholders the ministries of health and information and communications technology, the Royal Medical Services, Al Hussein Cancer Centre, the Private Hospitals Association, the Royal Health Awareness Society and the King Hussein Institute for Biotechnology and Cancer.
Lahham said the database will help "greatly" reduce waste, adding that once the project is implemented there will be no need for paper files and documents.
"Sometimes patients forget if they are allergic to a certain medicine or if they underwent particular tests in the past. The system will help medical staff find these out in no time by entering the national ID number of the patient, which will ensure efficiency in their work," Lahham said.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Mohammad Ghazal
Quelle/Source: The Jordan Times, 28.10.2009
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