King’s College Hospital London in Dubai migrates to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – htn

King’s College Hospital London (KCH) in Dubai has chosen to migrate its Oracle Health EHR to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), with the hopes of building a “scalable foundation” to simplify integrations and boost innovation in areas including population health.

According to Oracle Health, the hospital has seen positive results from the migration including a 50 percent reduction in the time taken to access patient information, a 20 percent reduction in the time taken to review a patient’s medical chart, and a 25 percent “overall reduction” in time spent using the EHR, which Oracle puts down to “faster screen loads and transaction response times”.

The move to OCI has also brought with it opportunities for improved cyber security with Oracle’s real-time threat detection and monitoring, and for “scalability of healthcare technology” as the KCH expands with new facilities and specialties.

Kimberly Pierce, chief executive officer at KCH Dubai, said that the migration had offered “substantial improvements” in clinical processes, highlighting the system’s “speed and responsiveness” in producing “a noticeable deduction in the time spent reviewing patient charts across various specialties”.

To learn more about the migration at King’s College Hospital London in Dubai, please click here.

Moving to the cloud 

You can find all of the latest cloud-related news and developments over on HTN’s Healthcare Cloud Channel, where we’ve covered stories including NHS National Services Scotland’s (NSS’s) contract with OneAdvanced Health and Care’s cloud-based software to serve as an enhanced document workflow solution across all GP practices in Scotland. The platform, which will replace the company’s previous version used by over 950 general practices, will support organisations in processing, sharing and storing electronic documents. Reported features include the ability to manage and streamline inbound clinical correspondence; a full audit trail with “instant access” to document history, including reviews, annotations and actions around the transfer of care; and an “enhanced” reporting suite designed to improve data visibility and practice oversight.

In July, we reported that Northampton General Hospital (NGH) had signed a 10-year contract with Nervecentre for the deployment of its cloud-based EPR, with frontline digitisation funding allocated by NHS England. With other trusts in the nearby area including Nottingham University Hospitals and University Hospitals of Derby and Burton also working with Nervecentre, the use of the same EPR platform is hoped to “encourage borderless collaboration among participating hospitals, enabling secure data exchange whilst respecting localised record-sharing preferences”.

Also in July, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that it would be providing around £8 million for cloud computing storage for UK Biobank, to help ensure that the database “has the cloud infrastructure it needs to securely store and handle” its health data. Described as “a database of in-depth genetic, health and lifestyle information from half a million UK volunteers”, the Biobank is said to offer an “unparalleled volume” of data to support research into new diagnostics, treatments and cures for diseases such as cancer and dementia.

A HTN Now panel discussion from earlier this year looked at recommended strategies for organisations in moving to the cloud, what good looks like in this space, challenges, solutions, and more. Joined by Andy Carruthers, CIO at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, and Alistair Eaton, CEO at CCube Solutions, we covered topics including University Hospitals of Leicester’s journey to date, the mindset shift required to accompany cloud migration, and the vendor perspective on cloud solutions.

News on health tech in the Middle East region from HTN International

We’ve covered a number of health tech stories and developments from the Middle East region over at HTN International, including the announcement earlier this year that India-based Wellthy Therapeutics, an operating system for digital therapies, would be taking a “step forward” by becoming part of the TruDoc (United Arab Emirates) family, bringing together TruDoc’s digital primary care services and Wellthy Therapeutics’ chronic disease management solutions.

In April, we published a deep dive into virtual and remote care in the Middle East, which looked at the ways remote care is being used by international health systems to tackle some of the challenges facing global healthcare. As well as covering developments across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Bahrain, and Israel, we explored research from the region including a study looking at the challenges and solutions for implementing telemedicine in Iran from a health policymakers’ perspective; and healthcare providers’ perspectives on virtual care and telemedicine in Kuwait.