DUBAI, 28th January, 2019 (WAM) -- The Ministry of Health and Prevention, MOHAP, has unveiled the smart application "Medopad" for remotely monitoring the body’s vital signs in accordance with Artificial Intelligence, AI, technologies, during its participation at Arab Health 2019.

The application aims to analyse patient’s information and generate predictive insights which will be able to detect life threatening medical conditions.

Medopad application, which has been tailored according to patients’ needs, collects data through devices connected to the platform and supports self-management through dashboard available on both IOS and Android systems. Thus, the application tracks the most important daily activities of the user, so that the medical care teams will be able to provide better care that suits every person by remotely analysing, reviewing and documenting patients’ data and information.

Medopad also has a wide range of educational and awareness content to assist patients including a wide spectrum of rare and complicated diseases such as cancer, multiple sclerosis M.S., kidney and heart diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Parkinson’s disease, pre and post-operative care and others diseases.

Commenting on the launching of the application, Dr. Youssif Al Serkal, Assistant Under-Secretary for the Ministry’s Hospitals Sector, underscored the importance of adopting this technology in light of the ministry’s qualitative transformation into digital health technologies and the possibility of adopting the model of hospital-at-home in the future to enhance the ministry’s keenness on exploring the healthcare future through exploitation of the innovative and smart technologies.

"By using those latest innovations in the artificial technology field, we will be able to boost our AI-based medical services at the ministry’s hospitals to a distinguished competitive level and fulfill our patients’ needs in accordance with MOHAP’s strategy towards a better healthcare, in addition to building quality systems, curative and health safety according to international standards and improving the outcome of national indicators linked to the quality of life as per National Agenda 2021," he added.

For her part, Dr. Kalthoum Al Baloushi, Director of Hospitals Administration, stated that this technology will also help reduce number of visitors to the hospitals and time spent there, increase patient’s interaction with healthcare practitioners in terms of treatment, increase their awareness about disease and how to deal with it as well as the regular monitoring in order to prevent disease aggravation and complications whether before or after surgeries.