The UAE started the platform for storage of medical data

At the beginning of February, 2020 the Ministry of Health of the UAE started a blockchain platform for storage of medical and pharmaceutical data.

The platform was developed in cooperation with the Ministry of affairs of the president, Dubai Healthcare City and other bodies of health care of the country. The platform is unrolled within strategy for integration of AI into medical authorities and increase in efficiency of digital health care.

The Ministry of Health of the UAE started a blockchain platform for storage of medical and pharmaceutical data

The platform is available via the official application of the Ministry of Health and will allow to store medical and pharmaceutical data of the public and private institutions and also certain health workers. Using the platform, users will be able to look for medical institutions and doctors. Thus, the platform will represent the register of workers of health care and the medical centers and will theoretically facilitate inspection from state bodies.

Search of data on medicine, such as producer and method of application also allows users to perform a new solution. Besides, the platform will advance medical tourism, providing data on the health care available in the UAE.

In 2019 the Ministry of Health of the UAE started a blockchain platform for information exchange between health workers. The experience taken from this project became a basis for the new program. The blockchain initiative can be also connected with recent opening of the Digital Health Care center founded by the Ministry of Health of Abu Dhabi and Etisalat telecommunication company. The project should become a basis for implementation of the innovative technologies in digital health care - such as blockchain, artificial intelligence and Big Data. It is supposed that similar initiatives will even more expand possibilities of medical authorities in the UAE.^[1]

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