Australia’s Beamtree scores a AU$3.6M contract to expand into Saudi Arabia

Beamtree Holdings, an Australian company producing artificial intelligence technology for decision support and data gathering in medical settings, has won an AU$3.6 million contract to work with Middle East healthcare giant Dr Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Service Group (HMG) in Saudi Arabia.

Why does it matter?

The contract will focus on Beamtree's data-gathering technology, which HMG hospitals will use over the next 18 months to help plan and decide the Group's future human workforce and technology resourcing requirements in hospital coding activities.

Central to this will be the use of the company's assisted coding audit quality assurance technology, PICQ, and Beamtree's proprietary RippleDown technology, which will enable the assessment of opportunities for automating clinical coding itself.

On the record

"This is an important milestone for Beamtree as we expand our work in the Kingdom to the private sector," said Beamtree's CEO Tim Kelsey. "It is a great privilege to work with such an innovative hospital group, and we are proud to bring Beamtree's field-leading technology and expertise to HMG."

"Our proven expertise in clinical record classification and audit together with our PICQ and automated coding software, assist health services in improving the quality, reliability and use of data to create a learning health system and deliver better outcomes for patients," he added.

The context

The introduction of the PICQ product and associated coding technologies to the Saudi medical system is a win for Beamtree, which has already introduced the system to Australia, New Zealand, and the Republic of Ireland and plans to expand it into the United Kingdom and Canada.

Beamtree also got into a local commercial deal with Lean Business Services to create and promote integrated clinical coding solutions for health services locally and worldwide.