Hospital information system survey in qatar.

Unlabelled: Healthcare can be enhanced by the effective use of information technology to improve the quality and safety of care and many healthcare providers are adopting advanced health information technology to improve their healthcare delivery process. Qatar is a relatively young Middle Eastern country with an ambitious and progressive national strategy to develop its healthcare system, including an advanced e-health infrastructure delivering the right medical information at the right time to clinicians and patients. To assess the effectiveness of such programs, it is important to have a pre-intervention baseline from which comparisons, performance against target measures and forward thinking strategic planning can be grounded.

Mucopolysaccharidoses: anesthetic considerations and clinical manifestations.

Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) is a group of genetic disorders that presents challenges during anesthetic care and in particular difficulty with airway management. Patients should be managed by experienced anesthesiologists at centers that are familiar with these types of conditions. Rarely encountered disease states have been identified as important topics in the continuing education of clinical anesthesiologists.