Dubai to extend telemedicine across all its health facilities
23-Jan-17, KT10
The pilot phase of the Dubai Health Authority’s ‘Dubai RoboDoc’ initiative will be completed in March 2017, after which the authority will roll out the initiative across all DHA hospitals and health centres.
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The authority will also extend the Dubai RoboDoc initiative to home-care patients. A nurse will visit them and dial in for tele-consultations if needed.
The DHA is the first government health organisation in the region to implement ‘telehealth’. As part of the pilot, RoboDocs have been placed at Hatta Hospital’s emergency department and DHA’s 24 hour primary healthcare centres at Al Barsha and Nad Al Hammar and they are linked to Rashid Hospital’s Trauma Centre.