Saudi Arabia’ Ministry of Health has launched the first virtual hospital in the Middle East, under the name of Seha Virtual Hospital. The Seha Virtual Hospital is distinguished by being the largest in the world, the first of its kind in the Middle East, as well as the latest in virtual healthcare. The virtual hospital is specialized facility as it uses the latest innovative technologies to provide specialized services to support health facilities in the Kingdom. Through which it supports 130 hospitals around Saudi Arabia with several rare specialties, in addition to providing more than 30 specialized services in different medical specialties and subspecialties. Additionally, it will contribute to transferring expertise to newly graduated doctors to raise the efficiency of medical services and provide its access throughout Saudi Arabia, as well as providing a service for receiving requests and inquiries from all hospitals through the various specialized clinics. The Seha Virtual Hospital comes in line with achieving the goals of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, as it is one of the priority initiatives in the health sector transformation program. This initiative serves the vision and enhances the culture of virtual medicine in health authorities, in terms of providing the best virtual health services at the national and global levels.
The hospital will harness the latest virtual healthcare technologies in a qualitative manner, with the aim of facilitating and enabling citizens to obtain timely consultations and come up with solutions that enrich them from going to the hospital, as patients will be able to communicate with doctors remotely. The virtual services provided by the hospital include virtual services for electroencephalogram patients (EEG), virtual clinics, stroke patients, critical care patients (ICUs), as well as radiology. It is noteworthy that the hospital aims to use the latest treatment technologies, and to invest in expanding the employment of medical robots, to save time for patients and to ease the hardship of travel and transportation for them. The Seha Virtual Hospital will also facilitate quick access by providing home health services for critical cases that require specialized and accurate consultations.