- Date2020-11-17
- Bahrain Joins Hands with the Republic of Korea for Sustainable Universal Health Coverage Download
(Case Study) Bahrain Joins Hands with the Republic of Korea
for Sustainable Universal Health Coverage
Bahrain National Health Insurance System Reform Joint Project between the Republic of Korea and the Kingdom of Bahrain
[OVERVIEW]
Universal Health Coverage (UHC), one of the biggest topics in the healthcare sector today, has been drawing greater attention from the international community. To make UHC a reality, Bahrain has been making efforts to establish the National Social Health Insurance Scheme named ‘SEHATI’ since early 2000. The kingdom joined hands with the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service (HIRA) of the Republic of Korea to establish the healthcare management system (SEHATI-IT) groundwork since 2016.
Many challenges lay ahead due to different cultures and systems, various stakeholders between the two countries and a short time frame for implementing the project. HIRA devised the “CLEAR strategy: Collaboration, Leadership, Experience, Architecture on demand, Remote work” to overcome expected obstacles and project challenges. As a result, Korea and the Kingdom of Bahrain successfully established the SEHATI-IT system including National Health Insurance Information System (NHIIS), Drug Utilization Review (DUR), National Electronic Medical Repository (NEMR), Smart Utilization of NEMR (SUN) in a short span of time (26months).
[CONTENTS]
○ About SEHATI-IT Project
○ HIRA & SCH’s objective & functions
○ Objectives and the reality of global health coverage
○ Considerations for Bahrain’s expansion into sustainable health coverage
○ Bahrain, taking steps toward the reform of the national healthcare scheme
○ SEHATI-IT Project between the Republic of Korea & the Kingdom of Bahrain
○ Challenges of the SEHATI-IT Project’s strategy for success: “CLEAR”
○ The outcomes and expected effects of the SEHATI-IT Project
○ Project implication
○ FAQs
○ Acronyms & Abbreviations
[ Bahrain Project Division ] pmosehati@hira.or.kr
