The ‘Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Middle East Health IT Leadership Summit’, from November 15 to 17, will bring together the best healthcare IT practices and the region’s most advanced healthcare provider organisations.

It will be inaugurated by Oman’s Health Minister Dr Ali bin Mohammed bin Moosa. “This summit ... will enable us to draw upon global best practices to ensure that healthcare delivery organisations are able to do more with less using health IT,” said Hamad Al Daig, co-chair of the Middle East HIT Leadership Summit and Chief Information Officer, Information Technology Affairs, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Saudi Arabia.

Abdul Rahman A.S. Al Tauqi, Director-general of Information Technology at the Ministry of Health, said major areas of focus in the programme included technological implications of major insurance schemes and the total investment required for health IT.

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