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Wareed is attending at the Arab Health Congress 2010 with its own stand designed to showcase the project's various facets in Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Wareed is participating at this week's Arab Health exhibition with its own stand designed to showcase the project's various facets and demonstrate its impact on the way patients and the medical community will interact with each other and with the UAE's state-run hospitals and clinics in the future.

Through the UAE Ministry of Health's presence at Arab Health Congress 2010 , Wareed will offer visitors a glimpse into the future of the UAE Ministry hospital through the demonstration of the various improvements the project will bring across seven key departments including registration & scheduling, physician order entry, emergency, surgery, pharmacy, laboratory and radiology .

The three-year multi-million dirham technology-based health information system project will enhance the quality of health care delivery in public hospitals and health care centres across the country through rapid access to patients' important information. Wareed will virtually link all public sector medical establishments across the country and automate all healthcare processes supported by high-end data centers and network infrastructure.

The Ministry of Health and the project manager, Hybrid Health Solutions (HHS), have already started introducing the Wareed technological platform at Ajman's Khalifa Hospital and its affiliated Musharif Medical Centre, both of which are expected to go live with Wareed on July 23rd. The two medical establishments were chosen as the pilots for this project based on an evaluation of criteria such as complexity levels and number of modules that could be utilized at the selected sites.

This is the first concrete step towards establishing a completely integrated electronic platform linking a total of 14 government run hospitals and their 68 affiliated clinics across the country. After July, every three months two hospitals along with the affiliated primary care centres will go live with the system that is expected to be phased out until October 2011. A total of 6,000 medical professionals will use the system once fully deployed.

The Ministry of Health has appointed Hybrid Health Solutions (HHS), a Dubai-based project management and solution providers, to manage the project, which will be implemented by a consortium of internationally renowned healthcare technology providers led by leading IT systems integration and consultancy Company, iCapital.

The consortium includes system providers, Cerner Corporation, a leading US IT Healthcare specialist, Gulf Business Machines (GBM), that will provide the hardware and networking infrastructure for Wareed, and Mubadala-owned, Injazat Data Systems, which will support Wareed with the data center infrastructure and management.

Source: Arab Health

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