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| Hanan al-Kuwari and Greg White, vice-president and managing director for Cerner Middle East, signing the agreement |
“When the new CIS is deployed and is operational, it will support our clinical community in the delivery of high quality care for patients. The solution also includes data for management and clinical reporting, planning, audit and research as a foundation for our plans for an Academic Health Centre. Similarly, the new Enterprise system will pave the way for electronic services to patients as we build a “patient online portal” that facilitates engagement and participation of patients in care management,” a HMC spokesperson said.
Starting in April, HMC, PHCC and Cerner Corporation will work side by side during the next five years to implement the systems and ensure a seamless
transition.
Staff training will commence before “go live” dates for both Hamad General Hospital and Heart Hospital as the first sites to have the CIS system deployed in September 2013. Primary Healthcare Centres will start with a select group of centres planned to “go live” at the same time. The roll out of the whole system is expected to be complete by 2015.
On the occasion of signing of the contract with Cerner, Hanan al-Kuwari, managing director, HMC, said this will directly contribute to the corporation’s goal of delivering quality patient-centred care. “We are pleased to have reached this milestone in the project and are sure that HMC clinicians and staff will grab this opportunity firmly and make a success of this project. It is a very important investment for the future of healthcare in Qatar.”
Dr Mariam Abdul Malik, managing director, PHCC, said it was a big step for the organisation and will provide for more streamlined services: “We are looking forward to a successful collaboration between HMC and PHCC to deliver this model of unified integrated services with a wide coverage and continuity of services that are integrated with secondary care, as well as being able to support health promotion and prevention which is vital to the vision of PHCC and is one of the goals of the National Health Strategy.”
