The Ministry of Health (MOH) has a vision to improve the equability, standards, availability and quality of care in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The MOH has developed a business strategy and 5 year plan to realize this vision, and has positioned eHealth as a primary transformation agent and enabler. To enable the vision, MOH, working with national and international advisors and IBM, has developed an eHealth Strategy and 5 year Roadmap. The eHealth strategy supports the primary MOH business goals:
To Care For Patients.
To Connect Providers at all levels of care.
To Measure the Performance of healthcare delivery.
To Transform Healthcare Delivery to a consistent, world-class standard.
These business goals are the core of the multi-dimensional eHealth vision. The eHealth vision statement: “A Safe, Quality Health System, based on Patient Centric Care guided by standards, enabled by eHealth” conveys the importance, and need for eHealth in the MOH.