Wareed Launched to e-link all Government Hospitals

This Ministry of Health initiative aims to elevate public healthcare sector by adopting global best practices in delivering world-class healthcare.

‘Wareed’ is a unique federal step designed to link all hospitals in the UAE through one common platform.

“It is a great honour that His Highness Shaikh Mohammed launched ‘Wareed’ on Monday. His unlimited support and inspirational vision played a major role in motivating the MoH to adopt and implement modern techniques and provide the best healthcare service to citizens and residents.

“This is a pioneering project in the Middle East and is in line with the world’s most advanced public healthcare regimes that will set new standards in one of the most valued facets of our society,” said Humaid Mohammed Obaid Al Qutami, Minister of Health.

Wareed is set to increase public confidence in healthcare services and improve in-patient and outpatient care in public healthcare institutions. The project will be implemented in over three years with the first two hospitals scheduled to come online by mid-2009. Every three months thereafter, two hospitals along with the affiliated primary care centres will go live with the system. All hospitals and clinics will be fully utilising the system by October 2011.

The MoH has assigned Hybrid Health Solutions (HHS), a Dubai-based project management and solution providers, to manage the project, which will be implemented by a consortium of internationally renowned healthcare technology providers led by leading IT systems, Capital.

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