Project Details


AI Repository Project

WSIS Prizes Contest 2019 Nominee

Sihatak - Digital Transformation Initiative for Healthcare


Description

Customer centric Healthcare portal that delivers various health services to more than 300,000 people using latest Tech with AI (Artificial Intelligence) that focus on:
• Build health awareness
• Patient history archiving
• App Queuing
• Providing a quick and accurate diagnosis
• Enabling second opinions
• Sharing medical history while attaining at most patient privacy and security with other healthcare professionals.

The Medical Services Portal has been used by other medical centers in remote areas for all the services it provides as a type of community service. It truly reflects the relationship between the Medical Services Center and its patients through providing an interactive digital work environment that works efficiently and effectively to meet the Saudi Arabia e-transformation plans.

Project website

http://sihatak.kau.edu.sa


Action lines related to this project
  • AL C7. E-health 2019
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 3: Good health and well-being
  • Goal 5: Gender equality
  • Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
  • Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

Global digital compact (GDC) objectives related to this project None

Coverage
  • western region, Saudi Arabia

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2016

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Youth
  • Older persons
  • Women
  • People with disabilities
  • The unemployed
  • The poor
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Children between 5 and 12
  • Children under 5
  • Elderly
  • New born
  • Pregnant women
  • Care givers Citizens

Replicability

The concept of the project has been proven to work in one or more community or region it can be exported to other regions in same country or abroad the localization can be applied with same process of the project


Sustainability

KAU provides financial support to Sihatak , which contributed to the use of the latest technologies to achieve the goals of the community and ensure a healthy lives and promote well-being for all. Sihatak will apply artificial intelligence model to analyze medical data to help in early diagnosis of the patient and thus facilitating the process of an accurate diagnosis.
Although, Sihatak has a great role in preserving the environment by relying on technology in the implementation of internal transactions and providing services to citizens in electronic form, which means electronic services are paperless, provided to the beneficiary of internal transactions and procedures, allowing for continuous renewal, and the possibility of expansion and modernization


WSIS values promotion

Access to information and knowledge Enabling environment ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls Goal 11.Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable Goal 17.Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development


Entity name

King Abdulaziz University (KAU)

Entity country—type

Saudi Arabia Government

Entity website

http://www.kau.edu.sa

Partners

kau hospital