The Iraqi government has rolled out the Dhamani digital health platform built to bring health insurance and medical records into the digital age.
Dhamani allows a digital interface where registered citizens can:
• enrol or update their personal information online
• manage access to medical services
• carry their health history in a smart card, which holds a full electronic medical record — diagnoses, prescriptions and lab tests.
The platform will be introduced in phases nationwide, beginning with 1m people in Baghdad. The population of the country is around 48m, spread across 19 provinces.
Dhamani’s goals are to:
• improve efficiency and transparency
• cut administrative delay and error
• unify care delivery across regions
• connect patient data forest and field.