The plan seeks to upgrade the health services offered to citizens. In the long term, it is designed to create a database of patients’ medical histories across the Kingdom, covering all state-run hospitals, the Royal Medical Services, Al Hussein Cancer Centre and the public universities’ educational hospitals.
During a visit to Prince Hamzah Public Hospital (PHPH) yesterday, where the Hakeem programme was launched, the King stressed the need to implement the project, commending the success of the experimental phase.
Accompanied by John Chambers, chairman and chief executive officer of Cisco Systems, the King was briefed on the various projects implemented as part of the two-year experimental phase, during which PHPH was provided with various equipment, programmes and applications compatible with the requirements of the country’s healthcare sector, according to a Royal Court statement.
As part of the programme, several infrastructure projects were carried out at the hospital in addition to the training courses given to its personnel on how to use, supervise and implement the Hakeem programme, according to the statement.
The King also checked on the implementation of the programme at the hospital’s dialysis and patient registration units and the doctors’ clinics and visited the Cisco Clinic for Distance Therapy and the catheter clinic inaugurated recently at PHPH, according to the statement.
For his part, Chambers expressed admiration of the progress achieved in the field of communications and information technology in Jordan, stressing at the same time that the strategic partnership between Cisco and the Jordanian government will accelerate the growth of the computerisation of the Kingdom’s health sector, the statement said.
Moreover, Hakeem’s director, Ghassan Lahham, presented a briefing on the programme, which was launched in 2009.
Lahham indicated that the programme will improve the quality of services offered to citizens at healthcare centres, boost medical tourism in the Kingdom and create job opportunities.
The King was accompanied on his visit by Royal Court Chief Khaled Karaki, King’s Media Adviser Amjad Adaileh, Royal Court Adviser Amer Hadidi, and several high-ranking civil and military officials.
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Quelle/Source: The Jordan Times, 22.10.2011
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