NEWS
Zebra enables
digitisation at Capital
Health’s hospital
Capital Health’s new Specialised Rehabilitation
Hospital in Abu Dhabi.
Thamer Nouri, Business Development
Manager, Zebra Technologies Middle East.
Zebra Technologies, a vendor in rugged
mobile computers, barcode scanners and
barcode printers with software and services
to enable real-time enterprise visibility, is
collaborating with Capital Health to provide
a portfolio of advanced patient identification
solutions to support the digitisation
of Capital Health’s new Specialised
Rehabilitation Hospital in Abu Dhabi.
Zebra will provide a broad range of
healthcare solutions including Zebra
DS6878-HC scanners, HC100 printers and
Z-Band UltraSoft wristbands. They will be
used across the hospital functions from
admissions to the patient bedside to ensure
accuracy and efficiency, and enhance
patient safety and care.
The new Specialised Rehabilitation
Hospital is purposely designed with the
intention of creating a fully digital, connected
hospital to enhance patient care and increase
the efficiency of the clinical team, freeing
more of their time to focus on patients.
All patients will be provided with
Z-Band UltraSoft wristband upon check-
in, improving patient comfort, reducing
medical errors, workflow and streamlining
admissions processes and ensuring they
receive the right care at the right time.
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Gemalto document readers at Cairo Airport
Cairo International Airport currently welcomes
15 million passengers every year.
Gemalto, a global vendor in digital security,
is supplying Cairo International, the second
busiest airport in Africa, with automated
document readers that will enable faster
border crossings for millions of travelers,
whilst ensuring rigorous security checking
of passports and other identity credentials.
With global air travel continuing
to grow, authorities are under intense
pressure to reduce queues at border
control and strengthen protection against
threats such as illegal immigration.
Addressing both of these challenges, the
Mohamad Eit, Regional Manager for Identity
Management System in Middle East for Gemalto.
Gemalto document reader AT9000 MK2
rapidly authenticates ICAO-compliant
passports as well as other official
documents such ID cards, visas and driver’s
licenses. A simple scanning of documents
at virtually any orientation enables quick
operation by staff.
The reader automatically detects
and checks document security features,
including those visible under UV and IR
light. Anti-glare technology minimises
the interference that can be caused by
materials such as shiny laminates.
Insufficient local hyper-scale activity
inhibiting cloud in region
“There are insufficient local hyper-scale and
large-scale datacenters to support cloud
systems, which cause local organisations
to derive cloud offering from abroad,” said
Peter Sondergaard, Executive Vice President
and Global Head of Research at Gartner,
at the recent Gartner Symposium ITxpo, in
Dubai, UAE. “Moreover, latency, legal and
local currency makes this option problematic
and limits cloud adoption among businesses
in MENA,” he added. Cloud spending in the
region is among the lowest in the world when
measured as percentage of total IT spending.
Middle East and North Africa IT spending
is projected to reach $155 billion in 2018,
a 3.4% increase from 2017, according to
the latest forecast by Gartner. In 2018,
the MENA region will exhibit its highest IT
spending increase in the last three years.
Spending in communication services,
mobile voice and data primarily, mostly
by consumers, is the segment that will
largely contribute to the rise in IT spending
in MENA this year. Software is projected
to exhibit the strongest growth in 2018,
with a 12.7% increase year over year.
Software spending has also been growing
at a double-digit rate, the last two years.
The growth has been driven by companies
pursuing new functionalities in major
back-office systems like supply chain
management, enterprise resource planning
and customer service. The communications
services segment — the largest spending
segment in MENA — is growing to serve
increasing demand for premium mobile
phones. Communications services are
expanding coverage and increasing data
transfer rates while keeping prices low. The
rising demand of premium mobile phones
by consumers is also set to fuel growth in
the devices spending segment in 2018.
Issue 16
INTELLIGENT TECH CHANNELS