Middle East Healthcare IT Executives To Convene In Oman

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Article Date: 25 Oct 2009 - 0:00 PDT

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From 15-17 November 2009, the HIMSS Middle East Health IT Leadership Summit will bring the best healthcare IT practices together with the region's most advanced healthcare provider organisations. Organised under the patronage of the Ministry of Health for the Sultanate of Oman, the Summit will convene government, healthcare and technology leaders to advance the quality of care for all citizens.

"This Summit, and future leadership summits in the region, will enable us to draw upon global best practices to ensure that healthcare delivery organisations are able to do more with less using health IT," said Hamad Al-Daig, co-chair of the Middle East HIT Leadership Summit and Chief Information Officer, Information Technology Affairs, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Abdul Rahman A.S. Al-Tauqi, co-chair of the Middle East Health IT Leadership Summit and Director General of Information Technology at the Ministry of Health, Sultanate of Oman, stated that, "Major areas of focus in the programme include the technological implications of major insurance implementations and the total investment required for health IT. It is critical that senior decision makers understand the systemwide implications of health IT and how it can bring value to all healthcare stakeholders."

The HIMSS Health IT Leadership Summit co-chairs also announced a partnership with the Saudi Association for Health Informatics. As part of this collaboration, the Health IT Leadership Summit will conduct its next Organising Committee meeting in conjunction with the Saudi eHealth Conference 24-28 April, 2010 in Riyadh. SAHI will also partner with the Health IT Leadership Summit to invite key members to join this inaugural HIMSS event in Oman.

More information on the HIMSS Middle East Health IT Leadership Summit is available at http://himssme.org/summit/index.aspx

More information on the Saudi e-Health Conference is available at http://www.saudiehealth.org/

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Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)