Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs Becomes First Quadruple Stage 7 in the World

Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs - King Abdulaziz Medical City Riyadh in Saudi Arabia has successfully validated at Stage 7 on INFRAM, making it the only organization in the world to have four Stage 7 achievements.

King Abdulaziz Medical City Riyadh is part of The Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, a government-funded health system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The group consists of six hospitals, and more than 71 clinics providing the full range of healthcare services to military personnel and their families, as well as a larger segment of the general population in the Kingdom.

On this occasion, His Excellency Dr. Bandar Al Knawy, the Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, has highlighted that “through the digital transformation journey, MNGHA continues to employ the latest digital technologies to achieve the highest level of patient safety and quality care in order to provide optimal healthcare services to all MNGHA patients”. 

 “Over the years, we have been leaning on HIMSS adoption models, including INFRAM, to guide us throughout the digital transformation journey in a systematic manner,” said Dr. Raed Al Hazme, Executive Director, Information Technology Department, Ministry of National Guard - Health Affairs. “Those adoption models encapsulate countless number of best practices and SME recommendations that are updated regularly to keep pace with the dynamic nature of digital technologies, as well as the challenges of the healthcare field.” 

King Abdulaziz Medical City Riyadh is a multi-award-winning hospital that has previously been recognized as EMRAM Stage 7, OEMRAM Stage 7, AMAM Stage 7, DIAM Stage 6 and INFRAM Stage 6. The recent successful INFRAM Stage 7 validation has given them the first quadruple HIMSS Stage 7 title, making them the most digitized hospital system in the Middle East.

“MNGHA, while not looking to use public cloud services, has embraced the use of cloud as a concept across two data centres,” said Philip Bradley, Digital Health Strategist, HIMSS. “This concept moves away from the design idea of having Data Center A and Data Center B in a failover configuration.  Instead, the two locations work together to provide the services needed by the organization.  Transactions are easily and seamlessly delivered to end-users as if the two locations were one.”

The HIMSS Infrastructure Adoption Model (INFRAM) assesses and maps the technology infrastructure capabilities required to reach clinical and operational goals while meeting international benchmarks and standards.

The HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) measures clinical outcomes, patient engagement and clinician use of EMR technology to strengthen organizational performance and health outcomes across patient populations.

The Outpatient Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (O-EMRAM) assesses maturity of EMR technology in outpatient facilities and its impact on patients served, overall population health and health system operational efficiency with a focus on quality of care, patient safety and cost reduction. 

The HIMSS Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity (AMAM) measures the analytics capabilities that healthcare organizations have gained from having a strong analytics strategy and competency and advances an organization’s healthcare analytics regardless of the technologies installed.