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Technology adoption making patient safety the primary goal at Primary Heath Care Corporation

by Dr Asmaa Mohamed | Dr Kashif Mirza   |   March 13, 2023

Patient safety is a critical part of the healthcare paradigm. Throughout 2022 and going into 2023, Qatar’s Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC), a leading government provider of ambulatory and community healthcare, has reached its highest levels of clinicians using technology to deliver care. This has made PHCC more proactive in patient safety and care delivery than ever before—including hyper-focused clinician training to ensure a clear and present understanding of what can be done using technology in a safe and meaningful way.

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Creating smarter data-driven systems

The power of data transforming health care

by Akram Sami | Dr Mohamed AlRayyes
December 9, 2020
In an interview with the Hospitals magazine, Akram Sami, General Manager of UAE and Kuwait, Cerner Middle East and Africa, and Dr Mohamed AlRayyes, the Senior Physician Executive, Cerner Middle East and Africa, talk about the significance of artificial intelligence adoptions and data-driven innovations in the health care industry today.

How technology is changing kidney care in the UAE

by Dr Ali Al Obaidli | Dr Siddiq Anwar | Dr. Yasir Khan
November 23, 2020
As the UAE’s largest healthcare network, Abu Dhabi Healthcare Services (SEHA) is privy to sizeable amounts of data on specific diseases affecting residents across the emirate and their impact. But with great amounts of data comes a big responsibility to contextualise and parse the information, and that’s where Cerner and its smart electronic medical records (EMRs) come into play, particularly in the case of treating acute kidney 
injury (AKI).

Embracing modernization of health care delivery using technology innovations

by Bashar Balish | Dr. Yasir Khan
November 17, 2020
Hospitals has the pleasure to interview Dr. Bashar Balish, senior director and client leader, and Dr. Yasir Khan, senior physician executive, to discuss Cerner’s perspective on digital transformation and the new norms post-COVID-19. Cerner connects people and systems around the world by offering a range of intelligent solutions and tools that support the clinical, financial and operational needs of health care organizations.

Learning Central – news, reference and much more

by Shaikha Hassan Al Mansoori | Akshay Rattan
October 25, 2020
The partnership between the UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) and Cerner is over a decade old with Wareed (MOHAP’s health information system) providing various tools to support MOHAP’s vision to deliver the best care for the UAE’s population.

Resilience in health care organizations

by Dr Mohamed AlRayyes
October 18, 2020
The modern era that we live in has only one constant to it: change; a neverending series of uncertainties that all industries face and will continue to face. In such conditions, the resilience of business organizations becomes an essential trait to ensure sustainability (and survival) into the future. The Oxford English Dictionary defines resilience as “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties”. With the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen that mere recovery and returning to business, as usual, is no longer enough for survival – we have experienced this in both our organizations and personal lives. What we took for granted just six months ago is no longer viable. To survive, we all had to reinvent our way of life and were encouraged (actually, forced) to finally take advantage of many existing technologies at our disposal.

Cerner’s vision towards mental wellbeing: reimagined

by Geetika Karol | Dina Hidayat
October 7, 2020
Being mentally healthy is not just about being free of mental health problems, it is much beyond. It is the continuous drive towards serenity of mind, body and soul. This is a journey from inward to outward. Just as we feed our body being mindful of its health, we need to ensure our minds have a healthy diet too – one of good thoughts, positivity, acceptance and surrender.

SAS and Cerner: powering COVID-19 track and respond dashboards

by Ali Juma Alajme | Marcel Yammine | Bashar Balish
October 6, 2020
Digital transformation of the healthcare sector has seen unprecedented growth and acceptance in the recent past, as a shared global pandemic experience brought to the fore the clear need for better data collection, analysis, and sharing.

Technology in the time of COVID - the new return on intelligence

by Latifa Saeed Abuzanjal | Nidhi Dhupar
September 22, 2020
As any computer application exit dialog box will tell you, everything not saved will be lost. Living without technology sounds nigh impossible as the world goes through this crisis, with technological intelligence having a huge impact on our ability to prepare for and respond to a pandemic.

World Patient Safety Day 2020: enhancing communication for physicians

by Dr Khalid Alyefei | Dr Nader El Shehabi | Jacob Ankrah
September 17, 2020
Proper communication in health care is a keystone in the patient care process, ensuring a safe and efficient patient journey during their visits to the health care facilities. With World Patient Safety Day 2020, it’s important to recognize that while there is still a pandemic across the globe, efforts to enhance and keep all our patients safe are still occurring every day. Sidra Medicine in Qatar is one such organization that has continued to address this ongoing concern via its use of Cerner tools and solutions.

Post-COVID health care - the new normal or the corrected normal?

by Dr Anees Fareed
September 13, 2020
You all might have read and seen the predictions and visualizations on how a post-COVID era might look like for health care from experts and pioneers in the industry. All of them unanimously state the arrival of a new normal. While reading through some of the suggestions, I’ve been curious to know how many of those transformations we have seen and/or predicted are entirely novel to the industry. Is a new normal being created or is it a timely upgrade of old normal? So, let’s dissect a few of them and see how ‘new’ they are.

The journey to health care transformation

by Karim Abd Elhay
September 6, 2020
In a discussion with Healthcare Global, Karim Abd-Elhay, Cerner’s general manager for KSA and Egypt, talks about the company’s end-to-end health care transformation.

Sheikh Khalifa Medical City - Ajman breaks new ground by completing the ISO 15189 medical laboratory accreditation remotely

by Magnus Ericsson | Wissam Diab
September 2, 2020
The Sheikh Khalifa Medical City - Ajman (SKMCA), in partnership with Cerner, has been working as one team since 2016 to transform healthcare delivery in the northern emirates in partnership with The Ministry of Presidential Affairs (MoPA). This project by SKMCA is one of the medical initiatives of H. H. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre progresses transformation program by virtually upgrading its Integrated Clinical Information System

by Oracle Cerner
August 24, 2020
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSH&RC) has collaborated with Cerner during the COVID-19 pandemic to fully upgrade its Integrated Clinical Information System (ICIS) to the latest available Cerner software version. The conversion of this code upgrade broke new ground by being supported entirely by virtual means; ushering in a world-class patient experience.

Enhancing patient experience through virtual clinics

by Dr Kalthoom Mohammad | Ravi Bobba
August 19, 2020
All over the globe, health care systems have witnessed drastic changes over the past few months following the COVID-19 outbreak. While coping with the situation and accommodating those who were infected with the disease, there was a realization that continuity of care for non-urgent cases should be not be neglected. As a response to these unique requirements, there was increased adoption of virtual care and the shift in attitude towards it becoming the “new normal” to enhance patients’ experience through virtual clinics.

Improving maternal and child health outcomes: the complete breastfeeding experience for mothers

by Dina Hidayat | Dr Sadaf Ahsan Naqvi
August 5, 2020
A mother starts connecting with her baby the moment she finds out she is expecting. From the first time of meeting her baby on the sonogram, a mother starts dreaming of the day she will hold her baby near and commits herself to nothing but the best for them.