AMMAN -- After its successful implementation in two of the Kingdom's health facilities over the past two years, the "Hakeem" e-health programme will be implemented in at least three other facilities this year.
"We have signed agreements with the King Hussein Cancer Centre, Prince Hussein Hospital and the Ain Al Basha Health Centre" to implement the e-health programme there, Shaden Qandil, marketing and communications manager at e-Health Solutions, the company operating the programme, said on Sunday.
The programme was first implemented at Prince Hamzah Hospital and the Amman Comprehensive Health Centre, where Qandil said studies are being conducted to assess how much money the programme saved.
She noted that other agreements are also expected to be signed with other health facilities before the end of this year, but declined to reveal which ones.
The vision behind the Hakeem programme is to create a database of patients' medical histories across the Kingdom, including all tests, procedures and surgeries they undergo, in addition to the diseases they suffer from, their allergies, the medications they take and other health information.
His Majesty King Abdullah launched the programme at Prince Hamzah Hospital in October 2009.
The project is meant to minimise medical errors, provide doctors with accurate information about patients and reduce costs by increasing efficiency.
E-Health Solutions is 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.
© Jordan Times 2012
