Dubai: Dubai Health Authority (DHA) has established a Smart Data Centre, which will store patients’ medical records, administrate records, and other important data starting from next year, it was announced on Sunday.
The centre is at a par with the latest international standards and has obtained an Uptime Institute (UTI) Tier III design certification, making it the first government health organisation in the world to obtain a UTI certification, the DHA said.
The DHA is now preparing to transfer all its data to the new centre, to be used for storing during 2017. The centre will serve as the authority’s primary data centre for the next 10 years, with guaranteed time and power capacity during that period.
The new centre will support the DHA’s ‘Electronic Medical Record’ initiative as well as the Smart City strategy and initiative of His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.
The high tech smart features of the new centre, which is maintained by trained specialists, will allow the authority to store its data safely and efficiently by optimising power usage.
Humaid Al Qutami, chairman of the Board and director-general of DHA, toured the new centre located in Latifa Hospital earlier this week. During his visit Al Qutami said that with all the technological developments the world is undergoing it is important to utilise this technology to store and protect data and information to guarantee data accuracy and meet Dubai’s strategy.
Amani Al Jasmi, Head of Health Information Systems Section at DHA, said the centre is equipped to store system information and statistics, medical records of patients and data related to visitors to hospitals and research and medical centres, to name a few.
She said the centre’s storing capabilities are of the highest quality as the guarantee of safety of the information and data reaches around 100 per cent.
