In GCC Taskforce on Workplace Development in Digital Healthcare Conference, the Emirates Health Services (EHS) receives a ZIMAM-Elsevier' Screening Package and Healthcare Plans Project award for 2020-2021 as the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic. 

The exceptional honour is an addition to several other accolades grabbed by the EHS in global conferences, strengthening and motivating its innovative model in producing future medical care systems. 

Communicating his happiness over EHS's honour, Dr Yousef Mohammed Al Serkal, Director-General, EHS, stated: "It's an exceptionally merited honour because of the extraordinary performance and teamwork of the EHS employees. According to the management of wise administration to blend in digital technologies into healthcare and goals of the Fifty-Year Charter.

Al Serkal received the honour in front of world-class leaders, entrepreneurs, decision-makers and interested parties from the GCC.

After receiving the prestigious honour, Dr Yousef Al Serkal added that EHS deserves the award after competing among the most reputed health authorities in the Gulf. The award is based on excellence, standards of innovation, best medical practices areas that gain international recognition.

This honour displays another testimonial of the competence and hard work of the EHS employees and mirrors the UAE's leading position in the field of medical services. He added that they also embrace a future agenda on development and maintainability in the operational plans and strategies.

The Director of the Mental Health Department, EHS, Dr Noor Al Muhairi, expressed that the jury members were impressed by the project as it fulfilled the award criteria, which inspired the adoption and improvement of digital health transformation systems to boost the performance of medical care utilising high-tech systems.

Emirates Health Services project is built around an electronic Clinical Decision Support system that guarantees patient safety and lessens risks for all frontline workers and fields, including Intensive Care, Medical-Surgical, Pediatrics, Surgery department, Gynae and Obstetrics, and Neonatal department.

EHS project aims to boost knowledge sharing to better patient-centred care, with simultaneous enhancements in its safety measure and quality of work, Al Muhairi added.

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