The Ministry of Health (MOH) has recently launched the «E-Health» App. to facilitate access to visual medical consultations on smartphones. In so doing, MOH seeks to employ cutting-edge technologies to enhance effective communication with service beneficiaries, and to provide them with the needed specialized medical consultations.
According to MOH, the first stage of the new App. will cover the Northern Borders, Asir, Tabuk, Jazan, Najran and Al-Jouf Health Affairs, to be subsequently used across the Kingdom, Allah Willing. “The App. is designed to enable audio-video communication from 9 a.m. to 12 a.m. during working days, and from 1 p.m. to 12 a.m. on weekends. Accordingly, users can login into the App., communicate directly with a specialist, and have their cases diagnosed through the App. Hence, the specialist can answer the users' inquiries, and provide the needed medical consultation and the necessary medical procedure”, stated MOH.
“The App. services have been expanded to cover Al-Baha, Al-Qunfudhah, Hafr Al-Batin, and Bisha. Thus, MOH seeks to increase the number of service beneficiaries, and to provide them with video medical consultations”, added MOH.