UAE adopts WHO system

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has finalised and deployed a regional disease alert system that will soon be adopted by the UAE, said a WHO expert at the Arab Health conference, reports KhaleejTimes.

Dr Najeeb Al Shorbaiji, co-ordinator of Knowledge Management for WHO in the Eastern Mediterranean region, said the system has been tested and implemented 90% in Tunisia as a pilot country.

"The system has been presented to the AGCC executive board of health ministers' council for approval," he said.

IBM is addressing some key issues and trends seen in the healthcare sector at the Arab Health 2008 conference, taking place at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, reports MySolutionInfo.

IBM on the first day discussed the topic: "The State of Electronic Health Record (EHR)". EHR is one of the most significant developments in healthcare IT.

The presentation gave a brief background of how EHR has developed, and also addressed some important considerations when implementing an EHR system.

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has announced MediNotes' product MediNotes e version 5.2 Electronic Medical Record (EMR), according to PR-Inside.

The system is pre-market, conditionally CCHIT-certified, and meets the commission's ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) criteria for 2007.

Pre-market, conditionally certified EHRs are new products that are fully certified once their operational use at a physician office site has been verified.