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ABU DHABI, 14th October, 2021 (WAM) Malaffi, the region’s first Health Information Exchange (HIE) platform and a strategic initiative of the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH), announced today that all public and private hospitals in the Emirate are now connected to the platform.
The move is in line with the ongoing efforts to enhance patient experience and improve the quality of healthcare and patient outcomes in Abu Dhabi and is also an important milestone towards allowing healthcare providers to safely exchange important.
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Abu Dhabi s first health information exchange platform, Malaffi has connected 95% of hospitals within the region that use electronic medical records to its system.
Malaffi, which translates to my file in Arabic, now connects a total of 1,075 public and private facilities across the country.
WHY IT MATTERS
Malaffi s platform facilitates real-time exchange of patient health information between healthcare providers, creating a centralised database of unified patient records.
This move aims to bring the Emirate of Abu Dhabi closer to its goal of connecting all of Abu Dhabi’s healthcare facilities later in 2021, with all hospital EMRs connected in the coming months.