Beamtree & Lean announce new strategic partnership in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Beamtree is delighted to announce a key strategic partnership with Lean, Saudi Arabia’s leading provider of innovative health solutions.
The new partnership with Lean will promote Beamtree products and services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and follows the successful completion of phase 1 of an audit of public hospitals in Saudi. The audit conclusions of phase 1 included strategic recommendations to improve analytics and use of important patient healthcare data for better patient outcomes, reduced wastage and operational efficiency.
Beamtree is a pioneer of AI data and decision support services and operates in 25 countries in the world – Saudi Arabia has put data and decision support at the heart of Vision 2030, its major national health reform program.
Lean is Saudi Arabia’s leading health technology enterprise, working as a key enabler of innovative health solutions in Saudi Arabia. Lean is contributing to digitalising the Saudi health ecosystem and boosting the health sector services by launching sustainable operational products and stimulating partnerships between the public and private sectors.
The partnership aims to support health services in Saudi Arabia improve the quality of hospital data and analytic insight through the audit and automation of clinical record classification. Last year Beamtree undertook an audit of data quality in public hospitals in the Kingdom under a contract with the Center for National Health Insurance.
Deployment of Beamtree products
Beamtree is the recognised world leader in audit and automation of clinical record classification – and in particular in the use of the Australian health classification – ICD-10-AM, which is licenced in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states. Beamtree’s SaaS-based product PICQ® automates the audit of classification and supports clinical record coders to improve the quality of data. It is widely used in countries including Australia, New Zealand and the Republic of Ireland. This partnership with Lean will support the implementation of PICQ® and related data products in Saudi Arabia.
Beamtree and Lean share a vision to improve patient outcomes and the more effective use of data in health services. This strategic partnership provides an exciting opportunity to contribute to the ambitious health reform agenda in Saudi Arabia. Beamtree and Lean will also be promoting new innovations in advanced computer-assisted coding which facilitate real-time data analytics and decision support. In addition, the partnership will support sales of Beamtree’s AI decision support products – including RippleDown® – into both diagnostics and hospital services in the Kingdom.
Tim Kelsey, CEO of Beamtree said: ‘Lean is a world-class technology pioneer and are field-leading in health in Saudi Arabia. We are delighted to be launching this new partnership and believe it will leverage both Lean and Beamtree’s existing products and services to support improved health outcomes in Saudi Arabia.’
Mohanned AlRasheed, CEO of Lean said: ‘Beamtree and Lean share a similar cause in striving to improve health & wellbeing which manifested this collaboration. We are excited to partner with a world leader in data and automation that will definitely help enhance both our products and services to enable the innovation of health solutions in Saudi.’
From right to left: His Excellency Badr AlBadr, Deputy Minister for Investors Outreach, Ministry of Investment, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Tim Kelsey, CEO, Beamtree; Simon Penney, His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for the Middle East and Pakistan celebrating the launch of the Lean-Beamtree partnership at the UK Pavilion at the Global Health Exhibition in Riyadh.
The photo featured at the top of this page is Mohanned AlRasheed, CEO of Lean, and Tim Kelsey, CEO of Beamtree, signing the partnership agreement in Riyadh.
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