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MoHAP, EHS Launch International Telemedicine Service Under Visiting Consultants Programme
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published June 24, 2021 | 08:00 PM
DUBAI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM - 24th Jun, 2021) The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) and the Emirates Health Services (EHS) have launched the International Telemedicine Service, which falls within their plans to develop the Visiting Consultants Programme and help patients and doctors get remote 2nd opinion consultations in critical conditions.
The launch of the service came during the MoHAP’s and EHS’s participation at the Arab Health 2021, which concluded today.
UAE citizens can avail of the new service when visiting their attending physicians at any of the 16 selected hospitals, where a doctor from outside the country is visually contacted to provide medical advice. Accordingly, information on the patients’ visits shall be recorded and regularly updated on the system by the ministry’s and EHS’s doctors.
The innovative service aligns the rules and regulations on providing telemedicine services included in Cabinet Resolution No. (40) of 2019 concerning the Executive Regulation of Federal Decree-Law No. (4) of 2016.
It also comes as part of the ministry's and EHS’s vision to provide comprehensive and integrated healthcare services that are aligned with the precautionary and preventive measures in health facilities.
Dr. Mohammed Salim Al Olama, Chairman of the EHS stated that the International Telemedicine Service falls within the ministry's and EHS’s efforts to speed up the transition to digital health technologies, implement innovative models in preventive health practices, and enhance telemedicine services in order to reduce infection, provide innovative solutions and services, and benefit from the medical expertise brought in by the Remote Visiting Doctors Programme.
Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Sharif, Director of MoHAP's Visiting Consultants Office, said that the international telemedicine service allows patients to utilise the medical expertise of consultants from several countries across the world.
He hailed the sophisticated technological infrastructure of the hospitals, adding that the new telemedicine service will provide a preliminary diagnosis and healthcare consultations in coordination with medical teams of MoHAP using medical apps on smartphones and other AI-based tools.
He noted that the decision to resume the Visiting Consultants Programme amid prevailing COVID-19 challenges aims to ease the suffering of patients and improve the quality of their life. It will also help in reducing the burden of the need to travel, he added.
Dr. Al Sharif noted that the service aims primarily to provide diagnostic and therapeutic services to patients and boost the capacities of medical teams of the hospitals. The service focuses on the most-needed medical specialties to meet patients' needs, using an easy digital platform that was designed to enable the seamless exchange of data between various internal systems, in full compliance with patient confidentiality and digital safety standards, he said in conclusion.
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