TY - GEN
T1 - Tracking the implementation of electronic medical Records in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Using an Adoption Benchmarking Tool
AU - El-Hassan, Osama
AU - Sharif, Amer
AU - Al Redha, Mohammad
AU - Blair, Iain
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and IOS Press.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), health services have developed greatly in the past 40 years. To ensure they continue to meet the needs of the population, innovation and change are required including investment in a strong e-Health infrastructure with a single transferrable electronic patient record. In this paper, using the Emirate of Dubai as a case study, we report on the Middle East Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM). Between 2011-2016, the number of participating hospitals has increased from 23 to 33. Currently, while 20/33 of hospitals are at Stage 2 or less, 10/33 have reached Stage 5. Also Dubai's median EMRAM score in 2016 (2.5) was higher than the scores reported from Australia (2.2), New Zealand (2.3), Malaysia (0.06), the Philippines ((0.06) and Thailand (0.5). EMRAM has allowed the tracking of the progress being made by healthcare facilities in Dubai towards upgrading their information technology infrastructure and the introduction of electronic medical records.
AB - In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), health services have developed greatly in the past 40 years. To ensure they continue to meet the needs of the population, innovation and change are required including investment in a strong e-Health infrastructure with a single transferrable electronic patient record. In this paper, using the Emirate of Dubai as a case study, we report on the Middle East Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM). Between 2011-2016, the number of participating hospitals has increased from 23 to 33. Currently, while 20/33 of hospitals are at Stage 2 or less, 10/33 have reached Stage 5. Also Dubai's median EMRAM score in 2016 (2.5) was higher than the scores reported from Australia (2.2), New Zealand (2.3), Malaysia (0.06), the Philippines ((0.06) and Thailand (0.5). EMRAM has allowed the tracking of the progress being made by healthcare facilities in Dubai towards upgrading their information technology infrastructure and the introduction of electronic medical records.
KW - Benchmarking
KW - Electronic health records
KW - Health services
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U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-830-3-64
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-830-3-64
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85040509141
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 64
EP - 68
BT - MEDINFO 2017
A2 - Dongsheng, Zhao
A2 - Gundlapalli, Adi V.
A2 - Marie-Christine, Jaulent
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 16th World Congress of Medical and Health Informatics: Precision Healthcare through Informatics, MedInfo 2017
Y2 - 21 August 2017 through 25 August 2017
ER -