Hakeem CEO Rami Adwan said that in order to improve healthcare services in public hospitals and provide better services for patients, the company is currently working on a system that will send reminders to patients when they have scheduled tests or medical procedures.
Adwan did not say exactly when the system would be launched.
Speaking at a press meeting on Sunday, the Hakeem CEO announced that the company had started working on a medical e-library that will help doctors access medical research papers and data from around the world.
The e-library, which is expected to be launched in six months, will be accessible to any Jordanian doctor free of charge.
Adwan also said that by the end of this year, four more hospitals and two health centres will be included in the Hakeem programme.
Currently, the programme is being used at Prince Hamzah Hospital and the Amman Comprehensive Health Centre.
Between 2013 and 2017, the programme will be introduced in another 43 hospitals and 81 healthcare centres, according to a plan presented on Sunday.
Adwan also noted that a study is currently being conducted to measure the benefit of implementing this programme in hospitals.
During the press meeting, Prince Hamzah Hospital Director Ali Hiasat said the benefits of the programme would be obvious once it is implemented in all the Kingdom's hospitals.
He said the idea of the programme is to stop using paper files and printed X-Ray images, but added: "We still have to print X-Ray images for patients who need to complete their treatment in other hospitals."
According to Hiasat, the Hakeem programme saves all data related to procedures that a patient has undergone and the medication dispensed to that patient, which will protect both the doctor and the patient if any errors occur.
Rami Farraj, chairman of Hakeem's board of directors, said the programme is available for any hospital that wants to use it, but the focus is on implementing it in public sector hospitals.
"We have also received requests from more than six Arab countries that are interested in using the programme in their hospitals," he noted.
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.
Hakeem is based on "VistA", an electronic health record system used by the US Department of Veterans Affairs medical system.
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Quelle/Source: MENAFN, 17.09.2012
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