With the aim of managing and containing the spread of communicable diseases, Dubai Health Authority (DHA) launched HASANA, an integrated electronic public health system for disease surveillance and management. The system will integrate all DHA and private health facilities in Dubai, to provide a single immunisation record for each individual in all health facilities in Dubai.
Launched last week at the School of Research Science, HASANA will be used by all public health providers in Dubai — government and private — such as schools, hospitals and clinics to manage immunisation, investigations and outbreaks.
Healthy schools
The system is also linked to school health, as it will aid in managing student’s immunisation and deliver mass immunisation campaigns in school.
HASANA aims to provide all 281,577 private school students with immunisation records. The total number of students who will be vaccinated from April 22 to May 16 is 1,511, while the expected number of students to be vaccinated by the end of this academic year is 23,158.
Dr Manal Taryam, CEO of Primary Health Care Sector, DHA, said the system will support DHA’s strategy by seamlessly integrating government and private health facilities and partners, enabling all of them to access the same immunisation data and ensure complete and high-quality care.
She added that it will also equip decision-makers in Dubai with the necessary tools to prevent, detect and manage the outbreak of communicable diseases in an efficient manner, allowing better planning of resources and manpower. HASANA will also improve the productivity of healthcare staff, allowing providers to direct their efforts fully to the patient care.
Dr Taryam added that parents of a child living in Dubai will be able to view child’s vaccination schedule from their mobile, get reminders when their child is due for a vaccination by using the Tifli mobile app, ensuring that they won’t be immunised multiple times and that they are safe from communicable diseases.
Children will also not have to worry about losing their consent forms while nurses will no longer carry papers and logbooks around during immunisations, use a scanner to send documents to DHA and lose consent forms or receipts.