When i thought about eHealth in Kuwait, i couldn’t remember that i heard about it or someone had mentioned it before, and that the Government of Kuwait would think about having an eHealth system. But, when i searched about it and for a moment thought maybe there is an eHealth system in Kuwait and nobody knows about it, i realised that Kuwait is actually trying to put an eHealth system and has made several exhibitions and conferences with the other Arabian Gulf countries.
Kuwait like many Gulf States faces a looming crisis in health-care around emerging chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease and vascular diseases. Kuwait has recognized this as an opportunity to upgrade the healthcare system from a primarily disease incident based system to a proactive integrated healthcare system. The backbone of integrated care is information sharing and aggregation for all the involved stakeholders. This will involve clinical, regulatory, patient engagement and IT changes. This talk will explore each of these areas, and where opportunities exist for improving the health of Kuwait’s citizens through use of electronic healthcare systems.
Kuwait has made a great step on improving the health system by introducing the eHealth idea. For sure it is going to take a long time to get started on the system and introducing it to Kuwaiti’s. I hope that Kuwait activates that system as soon as possible for the benefit of citizens and the Ministry Of Health to have records electronically instead of files and papers.
E-Health Blog 2013 