Beamtree is delighted to announce it has been successfully awarded, in conjunction with its partner Lean, a contract to complete the Health Information Management (“HIM”) governance strategy for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (“KSA”).
The strategy, to be developed over the next year with the Casemix Center of Excellence (“Casemix”), incubated within the Saudi Center for National Health Insurance (“CNHI”), is a key element of the Kingdom’s vision of sustainable value-based healthcare and part of its national Vision 2030 program. The strategy will establish unifying HIM structures, practices, workforce and operating models based on international best-practice at all levels of the KSA health ecosystem. This will support health services and providers across KSA to enhance the delivery of healthcare, through improved data quality, upskilling of the HIM workforce, reporting, benchmarking, technology and increasing transparency through the use of health information and health data. This project supports the transformation programs for health care across many of the national organisations.
This marks the first partnership deal with Lean. It follows the completion of a national audit of clinical coding across Ministry of Health hospitals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Beamtree last year.
Supporting clients in over 25 countries around the world, Beamtree – based in the UK and Australia – is the recognised world leader in audit and automation of clinical record classification – and particularly 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.
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.
Casemix is an incubator centre within CNHI, promoting the effective use of clinical coding, classification and clinical costing and proposing value-based funding mechanisms and policies for public hospitals in KSA. CNHI is establishing a fit-for-purpose sustainable healthcare financing system capable of identifying the healthcare needs of the population of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Together, 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: “Beamtree is proud to partner with Lean to support the Center for National Insurance Insurance and its Casemix Center in their vision to promote transparency of information and enable the advancement of quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Information standardisation, quality and timeliness are critical to the effective use of data for insights and actions and we are delighted to work with Lean and the Casemix Center on this important reform program.”
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 support the Casemix Center define the future of health information management in Saudi Arabia as the foundation for value based healthcare and enable the innovation of health solutions in Saudi.’
Dr Hussam Alfaleh, CEO of CNHI said: ‘This work will establish a dynamic, learning and standards-based health information system, enabled by the optimal utilisation of people, technology, and processes to achieve value-based healthcare in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s in support of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030.’
Ehab Alatassi, CEO of Casemix said: ‘This important project will promote transparency by establishing evidence-based, unifying health information management structures and practices at hospitals, health clusters and at the national level across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This will support complete, accurate, and quality health information to enable informed decision-making and enhance healthcare delivery and population health.’
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Photo: Beamtree CEO Tim Kelsey announcing the contract with Dr Hussam Alfalah, CNHI CEO
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