Next Generation Healthcare MENA Summit 2010

The Next Generation Healthcare MENA Summit 2010 once again served as an arena for senior level executives to engage in clear and focused dialogue with their peers and examine their management objectives in a relaxed and vibrant environment.

Rapid reforms and dramatic demographic changes across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are putting pressure on healthcare providers and the healthcare system.

Immense opportunities and formidable challenges call for immediate action. Demographic changes, increased urbanisation and the resultant breakout of endemic diseases requires a participatory approach for the delivery of a unified region-wide healthcare mechanism by bolstering existing as well as new facilities, while at the same time respecting the ethical, traditional and religious codes in the region.

Healthcare providers around the region feel a sharp sense of urgency in deploying information technology to lower costs, reduce medical errors, enhance outcomes, and spur efficiency in an industry known for legendary inefficiency.

There is no industry that depends more on the success of its people to meet its responsibilities to shareholders, patients and society at large. In the healthcare industry, finding, developing and keeping the right talent, while improving the IT infrastructure is more critical than ever.