DOHA: Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and the Community College of Qatar (CCQ) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that will see increased healthcare education and career opportunities for Qatari nationals.
The signing ceremony marked the beginning of a partnership between the two organizations to collaborate on the design, development and implementation of an associate applied science degree program in health information management (HIM).
HMC’s Managing Director, Dr Hanan Al Kuwari, said that the partnership is an important investment toward ensuring sufficient capacity to meet the complex, highly specialised healthcare needs of Qatar’s population through the pursuit of home-grown healthcare expertise.
“We are fully committed to this joint venture, where knowledge and experience are shared for the benefit of our patients. HMC and CCQ are working together to provide opportunity for Qatari nationals to learn, develop and work within the healthcare sector and ultimately to contribute to providing world-class quality patient care, in a safe and healing environment,” said Al Kuwari.
“This is the beginning of a long-term commitment between HMC and CCQ. Health information management students who graduate from CCQ will be welcomed into an environment that will continue to promote high quality education for them. We are keen to develop a sustainable high quality national workforce to honour HMC’s commitment of providing the safest, most effective and compassionate care to patients,” Al Kuwari added.
President of CCQ, Professor Ibrahim Saleh Al Naimi said, “CCQs new degree program in health information management will enhance the ways in which patients, doctors and insurance companies are able to communicate with one another and build upon the advances already made in Qatar’s healthcare system.” Professor Naimi said “our shared goal is to provide all public health sectors with highly skilled medical staff that can provide accurate and reliable patient data.
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