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Orion Health
delivers the first health
information exchange (HIE)
in the Middle East
First
go-live for the Malaffi HIE
achieved six-months after
contract-sign, giving
clinicians in four leading
Abu Dhabi healthcare
providers access to
important patient
information. Further
roll-outs, including a
patient portal and analytics
services will follow next
year.
(Abu Dhabi, UAE) - The first Health Information
Exchange (HIE) in the Middle
East, Malaffi, went live at
the end of July just six
months after contracts were
signed between the project
company, Abu Dhabi Health
Data Services (ADHDS), and
technology provider Orion
Health.ADHDS, the operator of
Malaffi, was established as
a Public Private Partnership
(PPP) between the Department
of Health – Abu Dhabi (DOH)
and Injazat Data Systems, a
subsidiary of Mubadala
Investment Company.
Clinicians at four leading
healthcare providers
encompassing hundreds of
facilities in Abu Dhabi can
now exchange and access more
information about their
patients, thanks to the
go-live of the Malaffi HIE.
Abu Dhabi has an
insurance-based healthcare
system, with a mixture of
public and private
hospitals. They use
Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)
from different national and
international vendors that,
until now, have not been
able to share information
with each other.
Over the rest of this year,
Malaffi (Arabic for “My
File”) will see more
providers and facilities
also be brought on board and
more information will be
added to the platform, while
a patient portal and
analytics services are also
planned for next year.
“Having successfully gone
live with Malaffi within
such a short period of time
is a remarkable achievement
given the significance of
this first-of-its-kind
platform in the region. We
are continuously rolling out
added enhancements and
onboarding more providers
within the Emirate in the
unwavering pursuit of
putting the patient
experience firmly at the
heart of diagnoses and
treatment. Malaffi’s
centralized database of
unified patient records is
already facilitating the
greater and safer exchange
of patient health
information between Abu
Dhabi’s hospitals, clinics,
doctors and care teams.
Through Malaffi, they will
be more informed and more
empowered to deliver the
highest quality of
healthcare,” said Atif Al
Braiki, CEO of Abu Dhabi
Health Data Services.
“Malaffi will also provide
access to population health
information to help inform
policymakers, which we
expect to be of much benefit
to the current and future
health of Abu Dhabi.”
The initial go-live for
Malaffi is enabling selected
clinicians at four
healthcare organizations to
exchange information and
access demographic data of
about 2.3 million patients
as well as to access 33
million encounters,
procedures, problems and
allergy records, going back
five-years.
The healthcare organizations
chosen for the first go-live
are all significant: SEHA,
the Abu Dhabi Health
Services Company, owns and
operates all public
hospitals and clinics across
the Emirate.
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (CCAD),
is a large, tertiary
hospital that is established
as partnership between
Mubadala Investment Company
and the US-based Cleveland
Clinic, while Danat El
Emarat is a women’s and
children’s hospital that is
part of another large
hospital group, United
Eastern Medical Services.
And,
Oasis Hospital which holds a particular
place in the region’s
affections, because it was
one of the first hospitals
to be established in the
1960s. More than 100,000
children have been born at
Oasis, including members of
the Abu Dhabi royal family.
Ian McCrae, the founder and
chief executive of Orion
Health, said: “The speed at
which Malaffi has moved from
contract to go-live is a
tribute to everybody
involved. There is no doubt
that the information sharing
that it will make possible
will benefit clinicians and
patients, and we look
forward to working on
further releases of the
project that are so
important for the people of
Abu Dhabi.
“Malaffi is also the first
health information exchange
to go-live in the Middle
East, where there is a
dynamic health tech market
showing considerable
interest in population
health management. We fully
expect to see further health
information exchanges
developed in the region and
hope to be able to
contribute our leading
software solutions and
expertise to
them.”
The Malaffi HIE has been
built around Orion Health’s
Amadeus Platform, which
includes a data repository,
the Nextgate MatchMetrix
master patient index to
match data with patients and
a provider portal among
other components.
Related
Link:
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