Bernard Kouchner a former French Minister and the founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Médecins du Monde, will deliver the keynote address at the conference, which takes place at The Address Hotel Downtown Dubai on 1st May.

Commenting on why Bernard Kouchner had been invited to speak at the conference, MSH CEO Brigitte Chemla said:
“Bernard Kouchner is passionate about universal healthcare and has a wealth of experience, both in the political arena and from a humanitarian perspective having worked around the world in some of the most extreme conditions during manmade and natural disasters.

“He is a thought leader on global healthcare issues. A captivating speaker and a real inspiration to those involved in the industry at all levels. I am convinced that delegates at the conference will, without question, be inspired by this extraordinary man,” added Ms. Chemla,

“Mandatory healthcare for all is being rolled out across the GCC and is the topic of the moment in the healthcare industry in this region. This is therefore the right time to start a meaningful dialogue on the issues surrounding this issue. Our objective is to spark debate and discussion amongst the healthcare community,” said Dubai Insurance CEO, Abdellatif Abuqurah.

The longstanding healthcare proposal is to provide all UAE residents – regardless of nationality or income – with access to healthcare under an initiative towards launching a national health insurance scheme to provide medical cover for all people living in the UAE.

The proposal is designed to cover the basic healthcare needs of all UAE residents and provide funding for future investment in the country’s healthcare infrastructure. The compulsory national health insurance scheme would be funded by employers and individual subscribers.

Bernard Kouchner has served in several political posts in France, other than foreign affairs, he was France’s first Minister of Humanitarian Affairs followed by a period as French Minister of Health and has continued to exert pressure to allocate resources for the medical problems of needy populations throughout the world.
Mr. Kouchner founded and was appointed as the first director of “Médecins Sans Frontières in 1971”. Also known as Doctors without Borders, the organisation delivers emergency medical aid to victims of armed conflicts, epidemics, and natural and manmade disasters and to others who lack healthcare because of social and geographic isolation.

About Dubai Insurance Company:

Dubai Insurance Company, UAE’s first local established multiline insurer (1970), has played an ever growing role in offering health insurance products for corporate employees in the UAE.This role and its successes have been recognized by being selected as the only representative company in the region for the Global Swiss Life Network.
It’s health insurance claims management division, DubaiCare, has gained an excellent reputation for helping Dubai Insurance insured’s in successfully managing their employee benefits and related costs.

About MSH INTERNATIONAL

MSH INTERNATIONAL is a world leader in the design and management of international healthcare solutions for employees of multinationals, workers in international organizations, SMEs and microbusinesses, individual expatriates and local high-net-worth individuals in need of international insurance coverage.
Via its 400 staff members working in four regional headquarters in Calgary, Paris, Dubai and Shanghai, MSH INTERNATIONAL provides 24/7, round-the-clock assistance to its 2,000 corporate clients and 300,000 insured members across 200 countries.

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InterSystems’ diamond sponsorship of the conference reinforces its continuing commitment to the Saudi healthcare market. InterSystems opened a new office in Riyadh last year, in response to the growing demand for connected healthcare in Saudi Arabia, at a time when the Saudi Ministry of Health is encouraging major healthcare providers to embrace electronic health information systems. TrakCare is available in Arabic, uses the Hijri calendar, and is pre-configured to meet the CBAHI standards and other unique Saudi healthcare needs.

InterSystems is particularly well positioned to respond to the growing demand for connected healthcare in Saudi Arabia. TrakCare®, an Internet-based unified healthcare information system, is an internationally proven solution.

Conference attendees will be able to learn more about the latest enhancements to TrakCare for clinical, administrative, analytics, and medication management at dedicated demonstration stations, where specialists will answer their questions. Attendees will also be able to see medical device integration in action by getting their blood pressure, temperature, oxygen saturation, and pulse rate measured and entered into the system right at InterSystems’ booth no. 201.

Designed for decision makers at healthcare systems, the Industry Solution Session will be hosted by InterSystems on May 1st. Paul Rhodes, the former eHealth Program Director at the Scottish Government, will be presenting on the “NHS Scotland National Strategy for Hospital Information System Deployment.”

“At this important conference, InterSystems will share insights from successful national deployments of TrakCare worldwide as well as the specific requirements for the Saudi market,” said Michel Amous, Country Manager, Middle East and India at InterSystems.

About InterSystems

InterSystems Corporation is a global leader in software for connected care, with headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and offices in 25 countries. InterSystems TrakCare® is an Internet-based unified healthcare information system that rapidly delivers the benefits of an electronic patient record. InterSystems HealthShare® is a strategic platform for healthcare informatics, enabling information exchange and active analytics across a hospital network, community, region or nation. InterSystems Ensemble® is a platform for rapid integration and the development of connectable applications. InterSystems CACHÉ® is the world’s most widely used database system in clinical applications.

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Synbiotix and Health Matrix announce partnership agreement to bring a new focus to the measuring and monitoring of clinical performance and governance in the Middle East.

Whilst focus in the past has been on building new healthcare facilities in the region, it’s only been in recent years that the attention has begun to be paid to how these facilities are run and the quality of care they are delivering. An important part of this is being able to capture key information at the point of care; a ward or department, that, when analysed in context, identifies areas for improvement and allows managers, senior managers and board-level executives to make necessary changes. ‘Ward to Board’ visibility of key performance metrics, captured and displayed in real-time through simple, clear web-based interfaces, allows organisations to identify gaps much faster and implement solutions much sooner.

Joe Lynham, CEO of Synbiotix commented on the agreement, “The partnership with Health Matrix is a significant step forward for Synbiotix and will allow us to work with an established leader in the provision of health IT solutions in the region. We are confident that the Middle East, which has long been of interest to us, represents great potential for growth and expansion and our solutions, which we have proven in the last ten years of operation in the UK and Cyprus, will allow the region to begin capturing meaningful and useful performance data which can be used to drive standards improvements in all areas of healthcare service provision.”

Abdul Rahman Qasim, CEO of Health Matrix added, “Today, the Middle East Healthcare sector faces a growing demand towards additional governance mechanisms to ensure efficient quality of treatment. Clinical governance itself presents a new challenge – to incorporatebest practices of clinical audit and quality within healthcare organizations’ day-to-day operations. We are confident that Synbiotix has the right tools and know-how to bring an increasing multi-professionalparticipation within healthcare organizations and achieve better outcomes of care towards improved patient care”.

To formally launch the partnership, Synbiotix will be exhibiting alongside Health Matrix at theMinistry of Health and HIMSS ME 2013 Conference and Exhibition in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 30thApril and 1st May.

About Synbiotix

Founded in 2003 and with offices in London, Cyprus and Ireland, Synbiotix is an established healthcare technology company delivering solutions to some of the largest and most respected healthcare organizations in the world.

With the vision of continually designing and building fit-for-purpose solutions within a modular and scalable platform, the Synbiotix name has become synonymous with quality both in terms of delivery of service and the systems it provides. Many healthcare organizations, including large teaching hospitals, rely heavily on the data captured in Synbiotix for board-level decisions relating to strategy, performance, risk and overall governance.

The partnership working approach adopted by Synbiotix allows healthcare organizations to draw on the considerable experience of the team in terms of best practice and ‘gold-standard’ working as well as the required technical capability, whilst having the flexibility to test new ways of working in order to streamline process and minimize administration time.

The result of this approach is a fully integrated and modular platform which encompasses a full Audit and Governance toolkit with a series of specialist clinical systems that have been tried and tested in one of the most demanding health economies in the world.

About Health Matrix

Founded in 2009 with operating offices in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, Health Matrix is a specialized Healthcare IT Company serving healthcare providers and regulators in the Middle East region.With a long-term strategy of improving the healthcare IT in the region, the company is focused on helping clients to adopt best-of-breed eHealth solutions developed by world-class healthcare IT corporations. These solutions were developed with a core principle of elevating the quality of care delivered to healthcare recipients in the areas of patient safety, risk management, workforce management, policies and procedures, HAI case management and surveillance, healthcare eLearning, clinical decision support systems, clinical audit as well as primary care.

Capitalizing on our team’s solid experience, local knowledge of the Middle East market, client-centered service approach, and the unique association with worldwide leading software vendors such as Datix, Kronos, ICNet, MCN Healthcare & Learning, Pepid International, Synbiotix and CureMD, we believe that Health Matrix is positioned to play a fundamental role in bridging the gap between the region healthcare practices and the international standards.
We, in Health Matrix, are strong believers in innovation and deploying a cutting-edge technology to enhance the well-being of our communities.

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The Libyan Ministry of Health has recently concluded a strategic master plan for healthcare requirements over the coming years. An enormous amount of private capital will be required to enhance and expand Libyan healthcare infrastructure to meet the needs of a growing population and to accelerate the growth of medical tourism in the country. Much like elsewhere in the region, there is a strong demand for tertiary care hospitals, with emphasis on the treatment of lifestyle diseases and specialized care.

According to Dr Ing. Hatem S. Aldarrat, General Manager, United Libya, an integrated solutions provider for hospital management and medical supplies, and exhibitor at the upcoming Hospital Build & Infrastructure Middle East Exhibition, “In Libya, the best investment opportunities lie in the building, equipping and management of hospitals and polyclinics; on both a government and private level.  Another opportunity is the build and operation of pharmaceutical factories to cover the local and regional needs for general and specialized medicine.

“There is also an immediate need for medical education and training, which could provide additional opportunities for private sector providers or public-private-partnerships (PPP) within Libya. The communications technology that enables telemedicine could also be used to deliver training.”

With reference to their own project pipeline, Dr. Aldarrat said that United Libya is in the process of submitting their offer for executing the design, build and operation of 33 prefabricated general and specialized government hospitals across the Libya, each with the capacity for 60-120 beds. Among other things, United Libya is also looking to establish a series of private hospitals and clinics in different cities in Libya in affiliation with international hospitals and clinic.

Hospital Build & Infrastructure Middle East is organized by Informa Life Sciences Exhibition and  will bring together  investors, commissioners, backers and managers of major healthcare building projects together with planning, design, building, operations, management and refurbishment suppliers. Running alongside the exhibition is a multidisciplinary congress consisting of four leading conferences that will focus on delivering up-to-date information which will address all the disciplines involved with the hospital build process in the Middle East.

“Despite the fact that the share of private healthcare investment in Libya remains small, it appears that the government is now actively encouraging investment from private companies. Better policy regulations and the establishment of PPPs are one of possible solutions to encourage growth in the Libyan healthcare industry. Hospital Build & Infrastructure Middle East is a great platform for all interested parties to lay the foundations for collaboration for healthcare projects across the Middle East,” says Simon Page, Managing Director, and Informa Life Sciences Exhibitions.

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This step ensures the intention of the company toward the individual and community and its care about them in all issues related to health and beauty. This jealousy brings new hope and brighter future to service all customers and partners across the Kingdom.

“The new identity restates the company’s affirmed trust with its customers and partners, ensuring and promising to provide the best in health and pharmaceutical care to service the local community” said Dr. Hamooh. He added “The new identity and logo goes in line with the company’s vast expansion across the Kingdom especially that we are proud to say we are the largest and leading healthcare provider in selling and distributing medicines, children accessories and medical equipment in the Middle East and North Africa.”

Also he commented “The rebranding came 25 years after providing our valued customers with hope, a philosophy that we have always endured, and unfolds with the company’s ongoing strategy, maintaining the leading position in the Saudi market and adopting the highest level of professionalism in servicing our community with a solid identity and fresh logo”.

Alqurashi revealed “this phase is a new stage in the company’s lifeline- it provides a stronger motive to continue applying our company’s vision and ambition in delivering a new hope and better future to the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry in Saudi Arabia. The quality medicines and supplies are managed by professional and qualified staff, integrated by our fleet of technical and logistical support, something unique to the company.”

This transformation refers to a new leap in the level of products and services provided by Nahdi pharmacies in the Kingdom.  The new identity enhances the company’s role in attracting, training and employing local cadres to support the government’s efforts in hiring ambitious young Saudis. Also, this will encourage the recruiters to activate their role in the economic and industrial development referring to the 670 operating outlets across the 75 cities and villages in the Kingdom.

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