Last Updated on Thursday, 29 October 2009 18:57 Written by Administrator Wednesday, 29 April 2009 13:48

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the other GCC Countries witness a leap into the electronic age in all aspect of life. One of the most critical is the medical field. Although the medical sector has been developing rapidly to cope with all advances in the medical industry providing the best available services in this sector, the practice of keeping electronic medical records within public and private medical institutions is still lagging behind, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia is planning to adopt the EMR in most health care institutions.

EMR is a system that keeps the medical records of patients in electronic format, with the best known electronic security. It contains information that are related to patients' cases, history of treatment and medication, including radiological images, laboratory tests and results and financial and social information pertaining to each specific patient.