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Welcome to the latest edition
of Intelligent CIO Middle East
magazine. With the world still
struggling to cope with the COVID-19
pandemic, this month’s cover features a
highly topical subject. We spoke to Ahmad
Yahya, CIO at American Hospital Dubai, part
of the Mohammad Obaid Al-Mulla Group, to
discuss how he has successfully switched the
focus of his team to new priorities.
This has involved extending and securing
IT services to a field hospital and providing
practical solutions for the hospital’s
administrative employees to work from home.
Among the many insights he shares with
us he mentions that the pandemic has
underlined the critical importance of
investing in technology.
“For IT, it is always a battle to justify IT
investments and IT has been considered a
backburner service by a lot of institutions,”
he says.
“The current situation should be an
eye-opener to executive management,
highlighting the need to invest more in
technology. The fact that hospitals like
American Hospital Dubai has been able to
adapt right away should really validate some
of the business cases for the investments put
forward to them.”
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