Abu Dhabi completes the establishment of 12 disease registries

The Department of Health in Abu Dhabi and the Abu Dhabi Public Health Center, in partnership with the Abu Dhabi Health Data Services Company, affiliated with the M42 Group, completed the establishment of 12 disease registries, in a step that strengthens a smart and proactive health system based on data, and supports preventive and personal care, by tracking the rates of spread and occurrence of diseases, their trends, and related demographic links, which contributes to improving health care outcomes, enhancing prevention, and supporting diagnosis and early intervention.

Disease registries represent integrated digital systems that collect patient data, including diagnoses, examinations, and treatments, to support decision-makers and policy makers in planning and allocating resources, monitoring community health indicators, identifying groups most at risk, and designing targeted preventive interventions, in addition to enhancing scientific research and understanding disease patterns to develop more innovative and effective health solutions.

The records include health priority diseases in the emirate, and are fully automated by integrating data from the Abu Dhabi platform for exchanging health information, “Malfi.”

Registries are a valuable resource for public health initiatives, supporting tracking disease patterns, policy making, improving the efficiency of health programmes, and strengthening health campaigns and screening programmes.

The next phase will witness the integration of artificial intelligence technologies into the smart analysis platform for population health, the expansion of data sets, and the integration with the “Sehtna” application integrated with the “Tamm” platform, which enhances patient participation, ease of access to digital services, and supports predictive analysis to detect disease patterns, improve diagnosis and care pathways, identify groups most at risk, and enable early intervention, which will reflect positively on health care outcomes in the emirate.

The Undersecretary of the Department of Health, Dr. Noura Al Ghaithi, stressed that improving the health care system begins with a deeper understanding of the needs of society, and that maximizing the use of health data enhances the system’s ability to prevent, respond, and make evidence-based decisions, noting that completing disease records represents an important step towards building a more proactive and personalized health system, based on knowledge.

For his part, Director General of the Abu Dhabi Center for Public Health, Dr. Rashid Obaid Al Suwaidi, stressed that disease records represent a strategic pillar that doubles the system’s capabilities to monitor epidemiological patterns and decipher community health trends, paving the way for designing preventive programs.

He pointed out that optimal investment in accurate and immediate data gives decision makers a proactive vision to support health policies, raise the efficiency of distributing medical resources, in addition to implementing critical therapeutic and preventive interventions at their appropriate timing.

In turn, Karim Shaheen, CEO of Abu Dhabi Health Data Services Company, affiliated with the M42 Group, said that this initiative clearly translates the company’s goals in leading and developing huge digital health projects that leave a deep and sustainable impact on public health.