KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, announced the launch of Zain Health, a digital healthcare platform for corporate customers. The platform allows doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers to remotely monitor patients using a number of smart medical devices, which contributes to facilitating the efficiency of the healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic over Zain's superfast and nationwide network.
Zain launched this platform as part of its comprehensive strategy to empower the country's various sectors into digital transformation, especially the healthcare sector which the country heavily relies on during the COVID-19 pandemic. Zain is keen on making its tech capabilities available to offer the most advanced services and solutions as per the highest international standards to facilitate the efficiency of the healthcare system during the current situation and protect patients while abiding by distancing guidelines.
Zain Health is a result of the collaboration between Zain and NXN, Zain Group's smart city arm, and is essentially a Remote Patient Monitoring System (RPM). The platform offers many integrated remote solutions that allow patients and their healthcare providers to communicate via a web portal and a smartphone app for iOS and Android operating systems. Zain Health is integrated with many smart medical devices and wearables that are able to read the patient's vitals, allowing their doctor to continuously monitor their condition, inform them of any important changes, create medical reports, and more.
The platform features many unique solutions for communication between patients and their healthcare providers, including patient surveys, Electronic Health/Medical Record (EHR/EMR) integration, connected smart medical devices and wearables over Internet of Things (IoT) technology, integrated smart coaching, secured multi-media messaging, e-screening and health risk assessments, chronic disease management, personalized medicine, pre/post-surgery coaching, remote monitoring, and more.
Zain Health was designed to be fully integrated with many smart medical and healthcare devices that are FDA/CE approved. The devices include wearables, smart scales, blood pressure monitors, glucometers, pulse oximeters, thermometers, and more.
Zain strongly believes in the crucial role played by private sector organizations in supporting social and economic sustainability projects, especially during health crises. Springing from its growing commitment towards practicing its social responsibility, the company is committed to printing a positive print through all its activities. This has led Zain to embrace the most crucial issues in the community, including the support of the country's healthcare system by making its tech capabilities available.