The Melfi System Improves Health Care Effectiveness for Residents of Abu Dhabi

Regarding Melfi's contribution to health care development in Abu Dhabi, Al Buraiki emphasized his vital role by stating: "Melfi" is the region's first innovative platform to improve the quality of health care and medical treatment provided to the people of Abu Dhabi. Features include:
Create a unified patient data file
The consolidation of patient data helps to improve coordination between health care providers, specialists and government agencies. Each patient's clinical record is stored in an easily accessible file, thus facilitating the work of a professional health, and fast, reliable and reliable access to important clinical data allows for informed decision-making. By a health professional.
Improve the quality of health care
The program improves patient experience and safety by reducing the number of visits and duplications of treatments and laboratory tests, and by improving the means of application and coordination of health care.
Improve public health
Provide real-time public health information, monitor syndromes, manage chronic diseases, mitigate risks to public health, improve emergency preparedness and develop an improved public health program based on accurate patient health data.

• What are the benefits to the patient of the application of this system and how will this improve the patient experience in Abu Dhabi?
Melfi contributes to the creation of a patient medical record continuously updated and accessible at any time to any health facility participating in the system located in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. The implementation of the system offers many benefits to patients, including: Improving the safety and quality of care by providing Health care providers have access to standardized medical records, improved diagnostic accuracy, and the risk of cancer. 39; reduced error, while improving the patient experience by reducing the duplication of diagnostic and paper procedures and by providing faster and more effective medical care, especially in emergency situations. Patients in p Health care, prevention and early detection of diseases are encouraged, while patients and their families have peace of mind in ensuring that they enjoy the best health care , wherever they are in the emirate of Abu Dhabi.

• What are the objectives of the Melfi system?
Melfi's health information exchange platform, the first of its kind in the region, will connect all public and private health facilities in Abu Dhabi in a secure way with the aim of providing a unified base for health professionals. patient records and improve the quality of health care and their outcomes. The Melfi Abu Dhabi Medical Data Services (ADMC) platform, a private company, was established as part of a public-private partnership between the Abu Dhabi Ministry of Health and Injazat Data Systems, a subsidiary of Mubadala Investment Company.

• How will the system protect the privacy of patients?
Patient privacy and the integrity of digital health data are top priorities. The Melfi system and its participants protect the health information of patients using physical, technical and administrative procedures.
The Melfi system and all healthcare institutions and specialists involved in the system comply with all laws regarding the protection of patients' privacy.
The network provides healthcare professionals with easy access to patient health information, but offers greater privacy and security than traditional paper records. All patient health information is shared via a secure electronic network, through which patients, health professionals and members of the Melfi team keep records of accredited health professionals who have access to the health information. patients' records and information and, in turn, require a secure password to use the network. Tracks all accesses and changes to patient health information. The network ensures that patient records are sent more securely than by fax or mail. To see him

• Who has access to the medical information included in the Melfi system?
The Melfi platform allows medical institutions and health professionals from all over the emirate of Abu Dhabi to access and exchange information about patients, thereby improving health care and patient safety.

What steps have been taken to ensure that patient information is not misused?
Melfi and all participants are required to comply with all health protection laws of the federal and emirate authorities, in particular the Abu Dhabi Standard for Health Information Security and Cyber ​​Security, which focuses on details of the protection and / or protection of personal health information.
Measures to protect personal health information include strict privacy and security protocols. All authorized users of trained health professionals and members of the healthcare team can access the Melfi system. All personal information are shared over a secure electronic network, and all information is encrypted during the transfer. The rest of the time to prevent unauthorized access (the secure network ensures that patient records are more secure than faxes or regular mail, thus avoiding errors in sending patient information to an erroneous recipient. ).
Our teams also conduct security assessments for participants prior to connecting to the Melfi system to ensure that they meet the required security standards. We have trained all of our employees to the HIPAA standard, a US law that provides data security and privacy provisions to protect patients' medical information.
The Melfi system manages audit logs for authorized users who view patient records. The Melfi system only allows authorized users to view patient files processed in their facilities and not to all patients in Abu Dhabi through the electronic link to the electronic health record systems used in these facilities. The system "Melfi" can control and track access to Patient Health Information The Melfi Operations Center receives alerts in case of unusual activity.
On the other hand, only authorized users performing clinical treatment of the patient will be able to "circumvent the privacy ban" to access sensitive information about the patient's health (such as HIV / AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases). communicable, addiction, mental health, etc.). Directly, provided that access to this sensitive information is necessary to ensure optimal treatment of the patient according to the doctor's vision, this activity involves the highest degree of rigor in the follow-up, in order to determine any unusual use .