Health Information System Contract Awarded by Kingdom of Jordan

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has selected Perot Systems Corp. to manage the pilot deployment of VistA -- an open source clinical and healthcare information management system -- at two hospitals and a clinic in the capital, Amman.

Jordan is recognised as providing one of the highest standards of healthcare in the region. It also has a rapidly growing IT sector that is gaining a reputable status in the region. King Abdullah II's vision is to continue to build on these successes by establishing an effective, integrated national healthcare infrastructure using a single software platform. This project goes hand in hand with building an educational program around VistA's technical and clinical processes with the goal of allowing Jordan to become self-sustainable in managing its health management information system and enabling it to take this offering toits neighbors in the region.

The VistA based health infrastructure, processes and knowledge offers a high quality, cost-effective solution, which will transform Jordan's national healthcare system. This transformation will benefit the country by helping to:

• Digitize hospitals and clinics, helping to reduce cost and increase the quality of healthcare
• Achieve self-sufficiency in the support of its healthcare ICT infrastructure
• Become a role model for the region and other developing countries
• Discover, track and manage at the highest levels healthcare patterns, problems, issues, diseases, protocols and trends in the region
• Provide a large amount of real and live clinical data for research on the diseases in the Middle East.