NABIDH: the unified record a licence waits for
A DHA-licensed clinic must connect to NABIDH. Here is what the connection expects from your records, and what we do and do not do yet.
NABIDH is the Dubai Health Authority's health information exchange: every DHA-licensed facility must integrate with it, and vendor guides state that a new licence activates only after the integration is in place. Integration runs through a certified system that sends encounters, diagnoses, medications, allergies and results as coded messages and receives the patient's unified record. Vendors quote four to twelve weeks of integration work and an annual fee. For a clinic, the software question is whether its records are structured and coded well enough to send, and whether the vendor is certified.
What it requires
- Integrate through a NABIDH-compliant system before the DHA licence activates, and keep the connection live
- Send patient encounters, diagnoses, medications, allergies, procedures and results as coded messages in the standards the programme specifies
- Register each patient with a verified identity so the unified record matches
- Follow the programme's policies on consent, access to the unified record, and audit
- Complete conformance testing with the DHA before going live
What the system provides
- Patient records with coded fields for diagnoses, medications, allergies and procedures, so a message can be built from the record rather than retyped
- Identity fields and a per-patient trail that show who recorded what and when
- Test and medication catalogues that map to standard code sets
- Hosting and access controls in line with the programme's data rules
What we do not claim yet
- Our clinic system is not NABIDH-certified; integration is planned with a certified partner, and we will say when it is done
- No conformance test has been run; a clinic that needs NABIDH on day one should buy a certified system today and bring us in for the booking site and the WhatsApp assistant
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These pages are engineering notes, not legal advice. Confirm your obligations with the regulator or a licensed adviser before you rely on them.
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