Republic of Armenia, Ministry of Healthcare is collaborating with WHISE consortium in order to advance digital health technologies in Armenia. Armenian health officials and WHISE leadership have negotiated conditions that will permit WHISE consortium and its affiliate members lead by Dr. Prof. Vahan Simonyan to audit existing digital and paper data ecosystems and to propose and implement novel technologies fo digital healthcare. Within this initiative WHISE undertakes to:
- Establish WHISE-Armenia legal entity in Yerevan, Armenia.
- Perform audit in healthcare organizations and health insurance organizations of Republic of Armenia and to evaluate healthcare data generation, accumulation and use and relevant financial payment data processes.
- Deploy WHISE ecosystem, HIVE compute infrastructure, Embleema health blockchain ecosystem, in physical locations in Armenia in order to accept, archive, and compute on healthcare data accumulated from healthcare organizations.
- Collect and summarize all potentially accessible personal level healthcare, biomedical research and diagnostics related data in WHISE-Embleema health blockchain based ecosystem.
- Share summary and statistical preview (not personal level) data with Armenian Ministry of Health and to WHISE-Embleema consortium business partners such as drug development, medical devices, biotechnology and high-tech companies, with the intent of attracting investments in clinical trials and real-world evidence studies in Armenia from such companies.
- Present evaluation outcomes to healthcare organizations and insurance companies and provide recommendations and propose strategies for implementation of digital healthcare and modern electronic medical record technologies.
