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Sisoft, Oracle - Sisoft Day 2016 in Nigeria

 

Sisoft & Oracle Healthcare Solutions on Cloud Event was held in Abuja/Nigeria on April 28th at Transcorp Hilton Hotel by participation of MoH Turkey, FMoH Nigeria, NHIS, HIMSS, some public and private hospitals in Nigeria and Sisoft (Omer Siso, Korhan An (HIMSS), Serkan Atagun (Turkey MoH), Nejat Unsal, Ilker Kayalar) & Oracle staff (Oracle Nigeria managing Director Adebayo Sanni, Oracle technology sales representative Peter Nwanna, West Africa middleware sales representative Martin Elugbaju, Oracle Africa principal sales director Peter Boglo, CX applications sales representative Olanrewaju Adeola, Nigeria territory sales director Uzoma Ekwebelem and oracle public sales director) In addition Consultant of Nigeria MoH Dr. Ngozi Azodoh and Nigeria national health insurance scheme Femi Akingbade and Nigeria e-healt director Dr. Nikem Noma and Usman Yakubu Maaruf have also participated to the event.    

Welcome Address was made by Representative of Honorable Federal Minister of Health Prof. Isaac Folorunso Adewole; Dr. Ngozi Azodoh who is Director Health Planning Research and Statistics at FMoH. After Dr. Ngozi Azodoh, NHIS Executive Secretary Olufemi A. Akingbade made a speech telling how Oracle and Sisoft will take part in betterment of healthcare in Nigeria. Mr. Akingbade stated that Oracle and Sisoft are the key players in healthcare projects in Nigeria.

After the opening speeches, the event has continued with tyhe speeches of the consultant of Nigeria Moh Dr. Ngozi Azodoh and Nigeria national health insurance scheme Femi Akingbade. Dr. Azodoh who has started her speech by presenting their appreciation, has also mentioned that, due to the competibility of Nigerian healthcare strategies the event was very important for Nigerian healthcare.

The speech has been continued with the letter which has been written by the minister of health Prof. Dr. Isaac Folorunso Adewole. In the scope of the letter, the minister has mentioned these, as Nigeria minister of health they were aiming to make Nigerian healthcare system more technogical thus they could provide higher quality healtcare services with lower human resources, minimized human caused errors and higher speed.

Oracle Public Sector Director Saudi Abdullah and Managing Director Adebayo Sanni underlined that Oracle and Sisoft will provide better care for healthcare in Nigeria as both parties are doing the same in other countries.

Another keynote F. Serkan Atagun, Counsellor of MoH Turkey, made a great presentation about the achievements and transformation in healthcare in Turkey. Mr. Atagun also mentioned about e-Nabız (e-Pulse) which is an awarded project in Turkey. He underlined that patients in Turkey are able to access their medical data and history through their patient portal. He said that there are 3M+ active users using e-Nabız.

After Mr. Atagun keynote, Nejat Unsal, Senior Manager, International Operations at Sisoft made a presentation about Sisoft solutions, projects and experiences in 3 continents. Mr. Unsal underlined that Sisoft will more focus on the projects in Nigeria.
 
After Coffee Break, HIMSS Turkey Country Director Korhan An, MD gave information about HIMSS and EMRAM Model. Mr. An said that this model had been accepted by many countries and hospitals so it could be easily adapted to Nigerian healthcare facilities.

Then Peter Boglo, Principal Sales Consultant at Oracle,made a presentation about Managing Healthcare Resources and Distribution Efficiency and Leveraging Health Data for Insight.
 
At the end of the event and before lunch, iPad Lottery was made and 3 iPads were delivered to some of the lucky attendees.
 

 
(30.04.2016)