This document provides an overview of the Dubai Health Strategy from 2016-2021. The strategy aims to transform Dubai into a leading healthcare destination through innovative and integrated care models while enhancing community engagement. It includes 15 strategic programs and 96 initiatives across prevention, clinical care, and non-clinical functions. The initiatives are prioritized into three waves based on their impact and ease of implementation, with wave one focusing on quick wins and high priority projects starting in 2016-2017. The strategy aligns Dubai's health goals with the overall Dubai Plan 2021 and UAE Vision while addressing current issues and future opportunities in Dubai's healthcare ecosystem.

1. DUBAI HEALTH STRATEGY 2016 - 2021

2. In Summary
Dubai Health Strategy 2016 - 2021

3. Summary
1. This document provides an overview on the updated and refreshed strategy for
Dubai Health Authority
2. The scope of this updated strategy caters to all healthcare players across Dubai
(including DHA, DHCC, private sector, MoH facilities) and covers the period from
2016 to 2021
3. The strategy development process involved a broad range of stakeholders from
the public and private sectors; and input was collected through a variety of
channels including: one to one interviews, workshops, focused groups, virtual and
online platforms, brainstorming workshops
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online platforms, brainstorming workshops
4. The newly designed strategy tackles key issues in the current ecosystem and
addresses forward looking opportunities
5. The updated strategy provides a clear, implementable and targeted strategic
direction that aligns with Dubai plan 2021 and the national UAE plan
6. A robust governance structure has been designed to avoid any factors that might
impede the activation of the new strategy

4. Dubai Health Strategy 2016 – 2021: Our Vision
Towards a healthier and happier community
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Source: Consultancy analysis and DHA

5. Dubai Health Strategy 2016 – 2021: Our Mission
Transforming Dubai into a leading healthcare
destination by fostering innovative and integrated care
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Source: Consultancy analysis and DHA
destination by fostering innovative and integrated care
models, and by enhancing community engagement .

6. Dubai Health Strategy 2016 – 2021: Values
1. Consumer Centricity: To prioritize the individual experience in the care delivery process
through a coordinated set of services that are tailored to the needs, safety and preferences
of the consumers, their families and their caregivers. Individuals, with their families and
carers, should be involved in decisions about their care and treatment
2. Efficiency: To maximize the value of healthcare services delivered by pursuing efficiency
and appropriate allocation and utilization of resources
3. Engaged and motivated workforce: To create a work environment that can motivate and
attract talented healthcare workforce. The aim is to create an engaged, attentive and
accomplished workforce that provides distinctive and compassionate care and foster
patient trust
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Source: Consultancy analysis and DHA
accomplished workforce that provides distinctive and compassionate care and foster
patient trust
4. Accountability and transparency: To be accountable for delivering high-quality healthcare
services and responsible for the communities served. A system of responsibility and
accountability should be put in place to track the process of health-related decisions and
ensure that the process and results are transparent and definite to the public, patients,
healthcare workforce and communities served
5. Innovation: To embrace an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to clinical care that
strives to enhance the lives of the communities served
6. Excellence: To aspire to the highest standards of excellence and professionalism in the
provision of care

7. DHA Corporate Strategy Map
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Source: Consultancy analysis and DHA

8. Theme Theme Theme Theme
Wellbeing and better
population health and
lifestyle
Excellence in service delivery Smart health care
(E-health)
Governance
Strategic objectives Strategic objectives Strategic objectives Strategic objectives
• To ensure a healthy
and safe environment
for Dubai population
via effective utilization
of resources
• To ensure the provision of a
comprehensive, integrated and
high quality service
delivery system
• To introduce innovation and
• To drive the creation
of integrated data
platform and utilize it
for smart
e‐government policy
formulation and
• To create an efficient and
effective Dubai healthcare
ecosystem based on
public and private
collaboration
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The strategy includes 15 strategic programs and 96 initiatives
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• To introduce innovation and
improve efficiency in care delivery
to balance access, quality and cost
‐
formulation and
decision making
• To reengineer the
governance structure
of DHA
Program Program Program Program
• Prevention & healthy
life style (#2)
• Public Health & safety
(#3)
• Primary care (#4)
• Care model innovation (#1)
• Oral & Dental care (#5)
• Mental Health (#6)
• Chronic disease management (#7)
• Centers of Excellence (including
clinical research) (#8)
• Medical Tourism (#9)
• Excellence & Quality (#10)
• Medical Informatics &
Technology (#13)
• Workforce & Medical
Education (#12)
• Health Insurance &
Finance (#14)
• Investment & Partnerships
(#15)
• Governance (#11)
Source: Consultancy analysis and DHA

9. The strategy aligns with Dubai plan 2021, the national UAE
plan, key stakeholders and external environment matters
Dubai Plan 2021
Plan
National UAE
vision
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Environmental
changes (Expo 2020,
demographic and
economic growth,
technological
advances …)
Internal , External
stakeholders and
the public
Source: Consultancy analysis

10. Teamwork
You will have to work together: with the OT Office,
your line manager, your program lead, other
Program leads and with your Initiative Leads and
teams
The successful implementation of the Dubai strategy 2016-2021
will require a new way of working at DHA with the support of the
strategy execution team ( OT Office)
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Cross-Functional
Collaboration & Reporting
In order to be successful in
these cross functional
programs, there will need to
be cross-functional
collaboration and you may
be reporting (directly and
indirectly) across multiple
departments
Shared Responsibility
& Shared Rewards
As the programs and initiatives
span multiple sectors (public
and private sector, multiple
departments), there will be
shared responsibility and
shared rewards
The OT Office is here to help transition into this new and unfamiliar way of working

11. The 15 programs generated spread across the care continuum
and support functions of Dubai’s health sector
Prevention Episodic Care Extended Care
Primary Rehab and
Chronic CarePrimary
Care Model Innovation
Primary
Care
4
Chronic
Disease
Mgmt.
7
Centers of Excellence (incl. clinical research)8
Oral &
Dental Care
5
Mental
Health
6
Public
Health &
Safety
3
1
Prevention
& Healthy
lifestyle
2
ClinicalFunctions
10
Source: Consultancy analysis
Medical Informatics & Technology
Health Insurance & Financing
Workforce & Medical Education
Governance
Non-ClinicalFunctions
Investment & Partnerships
Centers of Excellence (incl. clinical research)8
Medical Tourism9
Excellence & Quality10
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12
14
15
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Source: Consultancy analysis, DHA

12. Programs address the gaps identified in the state quo analysis and
respond to potential forward looking opportunities
Ineffective
Prevention
Physician
density
Fragmented
private
sector
Congestion
in ER
Minimal
service
provision of
mental health Workforce Financing
Ineffective
governance
Data
Quality & IT
Forward
looking
opportunities
Care Model Innovation
Prevention & healthy
lifestyle
Public health & safety
Primary Care
Oral & Dental Care
Issues
Programs
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Mental Health
Chronic Disease Mgmt.
Centers of Excellence
Medical Tourism
Excellence & Quality
Governance
Workforce & Medical
Education
Medical Informatics &
Technology
Health Insurance &
Financing
Investment &
Partnerships
Source: Consultancy analysis

13. Programs Descriptions (1/2)
Name of Program Brief Description of the program
Care Model Innovation
• This program is designed to promote innovation and efficiency and ensure that Dubai residents and
visitors have access to high quality services across the continuum of care
• This program introduces innovative care models to fill existing care delivery gaps and enable an
integrated cost-effective, patient and innovation-oriented care delivery system
Prevention & healthy lifestyle
• This program promotes healthy lifestyle and disease prevention interventions at the level of the
community and the individual. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior and more towards a wide
range of social and environmental interventions at the community level
• This program aims to promote a healthy environment for the Dubai population, as a whole, and for the
most vulnerable specifically.
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2
3
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Public health & safety
most vulnerable specifically.
• This program helps in defining public health standards, policies and guidelines and design organized
measures to prevent disease, promote health, and prolong life
Primary care
• This program is designed to ensure that all the population including
the most vulnerable have access to high quality primary care in an equitable fashion and focuses on
promoting primary care as an entry point to the healthcare system
Oral & Dental care
• This program aims to improve the oral health outcomes and ensure that all individuals have access to
high quality treatments and effective prevention programs for dental care
Mental Health
• This program stimulates the development of an ecosystem that ensures that the population of Dubai
have access to high quality care (including prevention and promotion) for mental health conditions
Chronic disease management
• This program drives the development of specialty centers that can provide programs focused on the
management of chronic diseases outside the setting of acute/tertiary hospitals. Such programs helps
chronic disease patients, better manage their conditions and reduce their need for hospitalization and
tertiary care treatments
Source: Consultancy analysis
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14. Programs Descriptions (2/2)
Name of Program Brief Description of the program
Centers of Excellence
(incl. clinical research)
• This program focuses on introducing COEs to respond to the high demand for specialized and tertiary
care for selected high prevalent diseases in UAE such as cardiovascular, cancer, trauma,
ophthalmology, neurology
• This program also endorses clinical research and training programs in the above specialties
Medical tourism • This program focuses on promoting the development of medical tourism in Dubai
Excellence & Quality
• This program promotes excellence in healthcare service delivery in Dubai while enhancing patient
experience, satisfaction and trust
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10
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experience, satisfaction and trust
Governance
• The program aims at improving the governance framework of Dubai healthcare sector.
• It also aims at strengthening the internal governance structure of DHA, through re-engineering the
public service delivery and regulatory functions of DHA
Workforce & Medical
Education
• This program aims to attract, retain, and develop the healthcare workforce for the emirate of Dubai.
Simultaneously, the program aims to further strengthen the national healthcare workforce by providing
them and the rest of the workforce a world class medical education
Medical Informatics &
Technology
• This program aims to drive the implementation of an integrated data platform across all public and
private facilities in Dubai and to enhance data analytics tools needed for research and decision making
policies
Health Insurance & Financing
• This program aims to ensure the successful implementation of health insurance law in Dubai and
improve coverage and accessibility to healthcare services
Investment & Partnerships
• This program promotes competitiveness and encourages foreign and domestic investments in the
health sector in Dubai
Source: Consultancy analysis
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15. Roadmap across all programs, initiatives are allocated to different
implementation waves
Key criteria are around impact and ease of implementation
Integrated implementation roadmap
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• High priority initiatives
and quick wins initiatives
• 43 initiatives
• To start as of Q3 2016 /
Q1 2017
• Usually require some
preparation efforts before
kick off
• 31 initiatives
• ~ To start as of Q1 2017/
Q3 2017
• Usually require longer
implementation timelines and are
more difficult to implement
• 26 initiatives
• Interdependent on other initiatives
• To start as of Q3 2017/ Q12018
and onwards
1 2 3First Wave Second Wave Third Wave
Source: Consultancy analysis

16. Name of Program Wave 1 Wave 2 Wave 3
Care Model
Innovation
1.1 Develop and implement a strategy for special
needs patients
1.2 Innovate in the delivery of ambulatory surgery
1.3 Introduce and promote the use of
telemedicine solutions
1.4 Introduce innovative medical technologies in
the provision of healthcare services
1.5 Promote innovation culture
1.6 Enhance home and remote care
1.7 Reinforce the use of patient
engagement tools
1.8 Develop pharma interventions to
provide solutions beyond the pill
1.9 Innovate in the delivery of
rehabilitation care
1.10 Innovate in the delivery of
long term care
2.1 Develop & implement prevention policies and
guidelines for NCDs and their risk factors
2.4 Develop & implement & update
vaccination and immunization
programs
2.8 Develop, innovate and
enforce risk factors
surveillance and disease
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Overview of the prioritization of initiatives (1/5)
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Prevention &
healthy
lifestyle
2.2 Enhance school health programs
2.3 Develop & implement prevention policies and
guidelines for CDs and their risk factors
programs
2.5 Develop and innovate in health
awareness programs
2.6 Revamp health education and
curriculum
2.7 Innovate in and enhance the
delivery of public health
interventions and programs
surveillance and disease
monitoring and control
2.9 Establish and implement
personalized genetic
profiling
Public health
& safety
3.1 Develop and implement a strategy for
occupational health
3.2 Participate in the development of a strategy
for food & water safety
3.3 Participate in the development
of a national strategy for road
safety
3.4 Participate in the development
of a strategy for environmental
health
3.5 Participate in the
development of a strategy
for disaster preparedness
and crisis management
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3

17. Name of Program Wave 1 Wave 2 Wave 3
Primary care
4.1 Promote primary care as an entry point
4.2 Develop and implement outcome based
performance measures
4.3 Develop and Innovate in the
delivery of maternal and
child health
4.4 Enhance the systemic delivery of
urgent care
4.5 Develop and Innovate in
the provision of Primary
Care delivery model
Oral & Dental
care
5.1 Develop awareness programs in dental and
oral health
5.2 Develop oral health prevention
and screening programs
5.3 Develop and launch Dubai
dental protocol
5.4 Develop innovative
solutions for the delivery
of dental care services
and treatment
6.1 Develop & implement mental health strategy
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Overview of the prioritization of initiatives (2/5)
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Mental
Health
6.1 Develop & implement mental health strategy
Chronic
disease
management
7.1 Innovate in the delivery of diabetes treatment 7.2 Develop and establish renal
dialysis treatment centers
7.3 Establish specialized
centers to treat chronic
respiratory diseases
Centers of
Excellence
(incl. clinical
research)
8.1 Establish Oncology COE
8.2 Establish Cardiovascular COE
8.3 Establish Orthopedics/sports
medicine/trauma COE
8.4 Establish Neurology/
Neurosurgery COE
8.5 Establish Ophthalmology COE
8.6 Promote clinical research
activities for the related COEs
8.7 Enhance clinical training
programs for the COEs
specialties (fellowships and
residency programs)
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18. Name of Program Wave 1 Wave 2 Wave 3
Medical
Tourism
9.1 Enhance the value proposition & target
operating model for all providers in Dubai
9.2 Revise and update regulations & policies
9.3 Develop a regulatory and
promotion entity for
medical tourism
9.4 Improve the medical
tourism ecosystem
Excellence &
Quality
10.1 Develop emirate level KPI framework
10.2 Launch annual DHA excellence awards
(awards for DHA and for other providers)
10.3. Introduce a Happiness program
10.4 Establish provider quality rating
systems
10.5 Develop emirate wide
accreditation
10.6 Design and conduct
patient experience survey
10.7 Implement evidence
based infrastructure
design
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Overview of the prioritization of initiatives (3/5)
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design
10.8 Establish monitoring
mechanisms for
healthcare facilities
Governance-
regulation
11.1 Revamp and restructure overseas
treatment services
11.2 Develop fund to support healthcare projects
11.3 Re-engineer organization structure of
DHA authority
11.4 Position DHA to win more excellence
awards
11.5 Conduct Health Network capacity planning
(Health Atlas)
11.6 Transform and engage DHA Workforce
11.7 Update licensing standards for
all healthcare services and
products
11.8 Establish Dubai healthcare
Governance Framework
11.9 Revise and update the
medico-legal laws
11.10 Develop data analytics
platform to improve
decision making
processes
11.11 Establish emirate wide
guidelines for medical
research
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19. Name of Program Wave 1 Wave 2 Wave 3
Governance-
service
delivery
11.12 Implement health insurance revenue
cycle billing for all providers belonging to
the corporation
11.13 Re-engineer the organizational structure of
the service delivery corporation
11.14 Revamp supply chain and
contracting services
11.15 Transform and engage
Workforce of the corporation
11.16 Nationalize workforce of
the corporation
11.17 Design and plan the service
lines
11.18 Redesign shared services for
the corporation
11.19 Standardize clinical
protocols for the service
delivery corporation
11.20 Implement operational
excellence policies
and procedures in the
corporation
11.21 Establish internal quality
monitoring and quality
assurance programs
11.22 Position and prepare the
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Overview of the prioritization of initiatives (4/5)
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11.22 Position and prepare the
corporation to win
accreditation certificates
and excellence awards
Workforce &
Medical
Education
12.1 Conduct emirate wide workforce planning
12.2 Develop a strategy to attract and retain and
motivate workforce in Dubai
12.3 Enhance Continuous Medical
Education (CME) programs
12.4 Develop a strategy to empower
nationalization of workforce
in Dubai
12.5 Ensure the availability world-
class medical and health
sciences academies
12.6 Develop guidelines for
teaching hospitals and
training programs
Medical
Informatics
&
Technology
13.1 Enforce the EMR implementation and
integration – SALAMA program (EPIC)
13.2 Enforce EHR integration for both
public and private providers in
Dubai (NABIDH)
13.3 Revise and update interoperability standards
at the Dubai level
13.4 Establish Smart solutions
for non clinical services
13.5 Establish consumer centric
online data platform
13.6 Establish Smart solutions
for clinical services
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20. Name of Program Wave 1 Wave 2 Wave 3
Health
Insurance &
Financing
14.1 Regulate and update the prices of
healthcare services across Dubai
14.2 Develop visitors insurance scheme
14.3 Establish Insurance package for
medical tourists
14.4 Enforce patient incentive schemes for
positive behavior
14.5 Provide coverage for prevention
and screening
14.6 Revise and regulate the premiums of health
insurance plans
14.7 Implement pay for
outcome schemes
14.8 Establish insurance data
analytics platform
14.9 Establish and implement
fraud detection program
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Overview of the prioritization of initiatives (5/5)
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insurance plans
Investment &
Partnerships
15.1 Develop & implement an emirate wide
healthcare investment strategy15

21. Dubai
DHA
Departments
DHA
Hospitals
Program
DHCC
Dubai
Municipality
As a result, coordination between the program stakeholders is
essential for the success of the strategy
Illustrative
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Dubai
Health
Strategy
Program
Leads
Initiative
Leads
Activity
Owners Private
Sector
Hospitals
Other
Government
Entities
CDA
MoH
Close
Coordination