digital transformation” on the specialists’ table
On December 4, 2023, in Riyadh, the President of the Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences and the former Kuwaiti Minister of Health, Dr. Muhammad Al-Jarallah, will launch the activities of the “Enhancing Health Leadership Skills in Light of Digital Transformation” conference.
The conference president and member of the Board of Trustees of the Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences, Professor Tawfiq bin Ahmed Khoja, indicated that the meeting discusses several topics, the most important of which are “digital communication skills,” the importance of “social media,” governance and strategic management using digital health, in addition to the importance of digital transformation in health and its role. In enhancing the health and safety of citizens, the importance of digital health in improving the quality of health care, and defining the role of e-health in preparing leaders.
He explained that digital health includes many overlapping and complementary concepts, which begin with “telemedicine,” which is represented by telemedicine and telesurgery, and then telehealth, which includes the above in addition to health education and health training, in addition to health care. Digital technology, the use of artificial intelligence in medicine and other modern electronic tools that increase the efficiency of the health system in its preventive, therapeutic, and administrative wings.
Professor Khoja confirmed that the meeting was approved for 15 hours of continuing medical education.
