Dr. Abdulaziz Suliman Alhomod is the medical director and deputy executive director of the newly launched SEHA Virtual Hospital, a state-of-the-art entity created by the Saudi Ministry of Health, which is the largest in the world and the first of its kind in the Middle East.
Alhomod holds certification by the American boards for medical informatics and emergency medicine.
He has had extensive experience in digital health, before joining SEHA Virtual Hospital; and been an integral part of many innovative projects in the US with many organizations.
Between 2017 and 2019, Alhomod worked with Oregon Health and Science University on several innovative projects, including the implementation of the large-scale accountable-care and population-management system.
He collaborated with OCHIN — a nonprofit health care innovation center — on improving diabetes care by leveraging EHR empowering tools, which ensured effective electronic healthcare record-keeping.
His work with the Northwest Innovation Center and the Veterans Affairs Portland Health Care System focused on enabling accurate prescribing and process improvement through workflow engineering.
He is a practicing emergency physician at the Riyadh Second Cluster with active engagement in various committees governing pharmaceutical and therapeutics and best practices in using electronic health records.
The Saudi doctor has many peer-reviewed papers focusing on technology enablement and safer use of technology in healthcare.
His most recent paper titled “Hospitalized Older Adults with an Electronic Health Records-Based Prescribing Context" was published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Alhomod is a fellow of the prestigious American Medical Informatics Association and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine.
He was trained at Baylor College of Medicine, working at many leading organizations including the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas Children's Hospital, and the famous Ben Taub Hospital that forms part of the Texas Medical Center. His comprehensive training in the US includes a dedicated research fellowship and a master's degree in biomedical informatics from OHSU.
In addition to his work at the prominent SEHA Virtual Hospital, Alhomod has collaborated with the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties and its health academy on several national projects, including the famous "Makken" healthcare model program that trains healthcare workers and builds competencies in the sector.
