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Sharjah Ruler signs “TrakCare” agreement with InterSystems Corporation
Sharjah, Sept 8, 2009 (WAM)- H.H. Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council member, Ruler of Sharjah and Chancellor of the University of Sharjah (UoS) has signed here yesterday an agreement with InterSystems Corporation (ISC) to provide the new Sharjah Teaching Hospital with InterSystems TrakCare Health Information System.
John Mc Cormick, Chief Operations Officer of ISC, signed the agreement for his outfit in a ceremony which was attended by Dr. Hanif Hassan Ali, Minister of Health, Dr. Salah Tahir Al-hajj, UoS Deputy Director for Community Affairs and other senior health officials.
Following the signing the agreement, Sheikh Sultan underscored in a statement his deep commitment to make the state-of-the-art Sharjah Teaching Hospital one of the best of such facility offering world class healthcare services in the country and the region. He said the hospital, when it goes into operation, will be one of Sharjah's major components of medical excellence by combining medical services with teaching of medicine for the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacology, Health Sciences and Scientific Research of the University of Sharjah.
Based on the agreement, the TrakCare system will be used in all parts of the STH to allow all its medical doctors and specialists working in its laboratories to have easy access to instant medical information about a patient to expedite their action on the case. It will also ease and facilitate the admission and discharge procedure of patients from the 210-bed hospital, which is in the final phase of completion and is expected to receive the first patient in the second quarter of 2010.
Situated adjacent to the Medical and Health Sciences campus of the University of Sharjah, the Hospital will join the College of Medicine and the Sharjah Medical Research Institute of the Sharjah Medical Excellence Cluster. The three entities of the Cluster will give the residents of Sharjah, the UAE, and the region unique and unprecedented access to the leading medical experts and the latest developments in medical research TrakCare, the leading web-based HIS, will be deployed in all operational areas of the Hospital.
The System will allow the clinicians and other medical staff immediate secured access to the seamless integrated electronic patient information from all of the Hospital's departments and laboratories, at all times. The System will also streamline all aspects of patients' admissions and discharges through the online accurate processing of all the relevant information associated with each patient. Sharjah's investment in TrakCare is another demonstration of the Hospital's commitment to the development of the high quality environment that would support the delivery of the best possible healthcare services to the patients.
John Mc Cormick, Chief Operations Officer of ISC, signed the agreement for his outfit in a ceremony which was attended by Dr. Hanif Hassan Ali, Minister of Health, Dr. Salah Tahir Al-hajj, UoS Deputy Director for Community Affairs and other senior health officials.
Following the signing the agreement, Sheikh Sultan underscored in a statement his deep commitment to make the state-of-the-art Sharjah Teaching Hospital one of the best of such facility offering world class healthcare services in the country and the region. He said the hospital, when it goes into operation, will be one of Sharjah's major components of medical excellence by combining medical services with teaching of medicine for the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacology, Health Sciences and Scientific Research of the University of Sharjah.
Based on the agreement, the TrakCare system will be used in all parts of the STH to allow all its medical doctors and specialists working in its laboratories to have easy access to instant medical information about a patient to expedite their action on the case. It will also ease and facilitate the admission and discharge procedure of patients from the 210-bed hospital, which is in the final phase of completion and is expected to receive the first patient in the second quarter of 2010.
Situated adjacent to the Medical and Health Sciences campus of the University of Sharjah, the Hospital will join the College of Medicine and the Sharjah Medical Research Institute of the Sharjah Medical Excellence Cluster. The three entities of the Cluster will give the residents of Sharjah, the UAE, and the region unique and unprecedented access to the leading medical experts and the latest developments in medical research TrakCare, the leading web-based HIS, will be deployed in all operational areas of the Hospital.
The System will allow the clinicians and other medical staff immediate secured access to the seamless integrated electronic patient information from all of the Hospital's departments and laboratories, at all times. The System will also streamline all aspects of patients' admissions and discharges through the online accurate processing of all the relevant information associated with each patient. Sharjah's investment in TrakCare is another demonstration of the Hospital's commitment to the development of the high quality environment that would support the delivery of the best possible healthcare services to the patients.
