A general overview about the Health Informatics department in King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Saudi Arabia

1. KFSH&RC Health
Informatics:
A true success story
Hussein Almalki
Health Informatics Department
College of Medicine
Swansea University
2014

2. King FaisalSpecialistHospital& Research
Center

3. Hospital Overview
• 1200 Plus bed multi-site tertiary care hospital.
• One of the leading healthcare institutions in the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• Its main site is in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi
Arabia with a branch site is in Jeddah, the other
major city within the Kingdom.
• Has more than 11,000 employees from 78
different countries.

4. KSH&RC is the first hospital in the Middle East to recognize by
HIMSS as Stage 6 hospital for its EMR adoption level.

5. IT Infrastructure
• IT infrastructure supports network that
accommodates more than 16,000 nodes.
• 9000 plus active computer users.
• The hospital hosts integrated packaged
solutions and numerous homegrown
applications in various platforms involving
different databases and programming
languages.

6. Main applications

7. ICIS
• Built based on packaged applications purchased from
Cerner Corporation of USA (HNA Millennium suits).
Hospital has implemented all major components of HNA
Millennium suits:
• Person Management
• Scheduling
• Radiology
• Laboratory
• Order Management (CPOE) o Pharmacy
• Surgery (Operating Room) o Emergency Medicine
• Medical Records

8. Stand-alone applications
• Picture Archival and Communication System
(PACS).
• Cardiovascular Solution (Apollo CardioStar)
• Nursing Scheduling System (One-Staff)
• Dictation and Transcription (CBay)
• Food and Nutrition (Cbord)
• Patient Acceptance & Eligibility On-Call System
• Tumor-Registry (C/Net) Infection Control
• Medication Dispensing (Pyxis & Omnicel)

9. Integrated Clinical Information
System (ICIS) and all other
department specific stand-alone
medical related systems at KFSH&RC
are HL7 compliant.

10. PACS
• Radiology department of Riyadh uses GE
PACS and Dental department uses
Carestream Dental PACS solutions. Jeddah
Branch uses Agfa PACS solution in their
Radiology department.
• PACS solutions from these vendors are
DICOM compliant for integration with
diagnostic modalities. PACS also have
integration with ICIS through HL7
interface.

11. Cloverleafisaninterfaceengineisusedsince1993for
dataintegrationofICIStoallmedicalrelated
departmentalsystemsandviceversa

12. Data Integration
• Data integration among systems at KFSH&RC is
helping our users tremendously avoiding
duplicate entries as well as transmitting data
accurately from ICIS to all other systems as
needed.
• Real-time interface through cloverleaf engine
makes relevant data entered in ICIS available
instantaneously to other systems that need
those data. Similarly, data captured in PACS,
Pyxis and One-Staff systems get updated in ICIS
instantaneously.

13. • Integration is not only transporting data
seamlessly among systems, but also increasing
the interoperability of all systems used in
KFSH&RC.
• Data integration is also helping care provider
at KFSH&RC to be more responsive to our
patients, having information available in a
timely manner to enhance care delivery.

14. References
• Aldaig, H., & UL Hoque, E. (2012). Building a Sound Integration
Architecture – a Challenging Journey at KFSH&RC. HIMSS. Retrieved
11 December 2014,
fromhttp://www.himssme.org/doc/himssme_whitepaper_buildinga
soundintegrationarchitecture.pdf
• Himssanalytics.org,. (2014). HIMSS Analytics - EMRAM. Retrieved 11
December 2014, from
https://www.himssanalytics.org/emram/stage6Hospitals.aspx
• Kfshrc.edu.sa,. (2014). King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research
Centre - Our Hospitals - Our Hospitals. Retrieved 11 December 2014,
from
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15. Questions?