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  • The signing came on the sidelines of MoHAP's participation at Arab Health 2020 that is being held in Dubai.
  • The project will implement the best means of strategic planning and decision-making, based on databases that help evaluate and measure the performance of health services.

The UAE’s Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon, to enhance bilateral cooperation.

The MoU also covers organizing workshops on creating a cloud-based electronic medical record system and a healthcare portal focused on serving the community, in accordance with international best practices, local media reports said.

The signing came on the sidelines of MoHAP’s participation at Arab Health 2020, being held in Dubai.

This comes as part of the ministry’s commitment to supporting digital transformation and building skills and capabilities to update empowerment policies in the cloud computing field by health care facilities.

“The project will implement the best means of strategic planning and decision-making, based on databases that help evaluate and measure the performance of health services,” said Abdullah Ahmed Ahli, Acting Assistant Under-Secretary for the Support Services Sector.

He underlined that databases are one of the most important elements in developing plans and policies and ensuring the ideal distribution of health resources and services effectively to enhance community health and update health indicators.

Ali Al Ajmi, Director of the Digital Health Department at the Ministry, said the MoU enhances cooperation in creating an electronic medical record system based on cloud computing,

Al Ajmi added that the ministry is working to identify current data sources, flows, and targeted outcomes from a data-driven approach to decision-making.