The Middle East and Africa
Government spending is estimated to account for 64%—USD 80 billion—of the total healthcare market, with private-sector spending making up the rest. The rising prevalence of lifestyle diseases, coupled with the country’s plans to turn the UAE into a medical tourism hub, provides strong growth opportunities for the adoption of EHR in the Middle East. Countries in this region are also increasingly investing in modernizing their respective healthcare systems. Saudi Arabia and the UAE are at the forefront of these investments, followed by Egypt, Kuwait, and Qatar. The UAE offers significant growth opportunities for this market, as it aims to develop world-class healthcare systems with the implementation of innovative eHealth solutions. In 2017, the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) announced the launch of the Salama system, a unique medical and health record system that will integrate all 2,700 public and private healthcare facilities in Dubai, providing a single electronic file for each resident, as a part of its smart health and digital transformation strategy. This medical record will be eventually linked to the National Unified Medical Record (NUMR). This project was rolled out in three phases in 2017. So far, 1.4 million DHA patient medical records and 112 million transactions have been transferred to the Salama system, and 11,000 DHA staff will be trained to use it in 2017. In addition, according to the HIMSS, Middle Eastern countries invested an estimated USD 26 billion in various healthcare projects in 2011; investments are estimated to increase to USD 60 billion by 2025, as these countries will add 120 to 140 hospitals by 2020 to meet the growing demand for healthcare facilities. The establishment of new hospitals is expected to drive the EHR market. Furthermore, the increase in government and private partnerships is also expected to positively impact the demand for HCIT solutions in this region. For instance, in 2016, the UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention renewed and expanded its strategic alliance with Cerner, for the continued implementation of its enterprise-wide health IT system—the Wareed project. The project is designed to establish a streamlined and accessible electronic health record (EHR) between United Arab Emirates (UAE) health facilities and a consolidated health information database of the Ministry of Health and Prevention's (MOHAP) patients, using integrated healthcare IT systems. Such initiatives are expected to drive the hospital EHR market in this region.
Electronic Health Records (EHR) Software in Middle East and Africa
The company’s core competency lies in its EHR software —about one in four physicians in the US use EpicCare (an EHR solution for large hospitals and healthcare systems). Epic Systems provides healthcare management software that integrates financial and clinical information across inpatient, ambulatory, and payer technology systems. The company offers scheduling and registration tools, billing and managed care administration applications, inpatient and outpatient core clinical systems, electronic health record (EHR) applications, and health information exchange software solutions and services for the management of hospital pharmacy, emergency, surgery, radiology, laboratory, and intensive care departments.
The Cerner EHR software supports an enterprise-wide view of patient care and the point at which care was delivered in both acute inpatient and outpatient settings. This seamless integration across the continuum of care enables providers to make informed, data-driven decisions without leaving the clinical workflows. Cerner Corporation is a leading supplier of healthcare information technology (HCIT) solutions, devices, and hardware. This makes the company one of the best EHR software providers. The company offers a broad range of services, including implementation, training, remote hosting, operational management services, revenue cycle services, support and maintenance, health care data analysis, clinical process optimization, transaction processing, employee wellness programs & third-party administrator services for employer-based health plans. Cerner EHR offers powerful decision support that utilizes predictive algorithms to fire rules and alerts, engaging providers when a patient requires care. Cerner Ambulatory pricing supports all kinds of budgets and requirements.
The EHR software offered by Meditech ( Medical Information Technology) is a single, fully interoperable system that navigates the twists and turns of every care setting to bridge the gaps in care and effectively treat the whole patient, wherever they may be in their journey. And with Virtual Visits and its Patient and Consumer Health Portal, patients are never out of reach. Expanse’s surveillance solutions offer meaningful alerts that can monitor at-risk patients and guard against HACs and life-threatening conditions. Moreover, its Quality Vantage Dashboards assess performance at the individual, practice, and group level to detect costly, unnecessary variations in care.
TrakCare, innovative EHR software by InterSystems consists of a comprehensive set of clinical, administrative, and departmental modules sharing a single data model. One login provides secure, role-based access to all areas of the solution. The softwareis designed for the age of mobility, aiming to deliver the best user experience wherever one is, on whatever device one is using. It is an intuitive, web-based system, so users are up and running quickly. The software enables efficient, shared workflows across care settings and provides a unified record for each patient across the continuum of care. It offers easy access to complete patient information and empowers care providers and management teams to make more informed decisions for better results. TrakCare pricing supports all kinds of budgets and requirements.
