The agreement stipulates that within seven years, most public health centres and hospitals will be included in the programme, which is meant to improve healthcare services by allowing health records to be stored and shared digitally on a fibre optic network.
The vision behind the Hakeem programme is to create a database of patients' medical histories across the Kingdom, including all tests, procedures and surgeries they undergo, in addition to the diseases they suffer from, their allergies, the medications they take and other health information.
Currently, there are 39 public hospitals and 700 health centres across the Kingdom, according to Minister of Health Abdul Latif Wreikat, who signed the agreement with Rami Farraj, chairman of Hakeem's board of directors.
The implementation of the programme started last year at Prince Hamzah Hospital and the Amman Comprehensive Health Centre, where the minister said it reduced annual expenditures by 25 per cent.
The programme, Wreikat added, also allows healthcare providers to look up what medications are available in the ministry's stores so that they can prescribe the available drugs to patients.
The JD100 million agreement also provides for connecting all drug stores under the ministry's auspices through the network, according to Wreikat.
Farraj noted that the programme will be also available for private hospitals if they want to use it.
Creating a digital link among health facilities will allow them to share medical records easily, he pointed out.
Under the agreement, health providers and administrators will also be trained in how to use the programme.
The Hakeem programme is operated by E-Health Solutions, a nonprofit company that has as stakeholders the ministries of health and information and communications technology, the Royal Medical Services, the King Hussein Cancer Centre, the Private Hospitals Association, the Royal Health Awareness Society and the King Hussein Institute for Biotechnology and Cancer.
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Quelle/Source: MENAFN, 03.09.2012
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