MUSCAT: The Sultanate of Oman, represented by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), won the fifth position globally after the National Health Insurance Platform “Dhamani” was rated among the best digital platforms in the category of information technology applications for e-government at the World Summit on Information Society Forum “WSIS+20” for the year 2025. The event, held in Geneva, was organised by the International Telecommunication Union.
Shaikh Abdullah bin Salim al Salmi, Executive President of the FSA, confirmed that the National Health Insurance Platform “Dhamani” ranking fifth in WSIS+20 is an international recognition that confirms the efficiency and ability of the platform to regulate one of the most important and sensitive sectors related to regulating transactions between insurance institutions and private healthcare institutions. He pointed out that the prize is one of the most renowned awards globally at the technological level.
Al Salmi expressed his delight with this national achievement, which reflects the scale of the transformation that the health insurance ecosystem is witnessing with the real-time services it provides in transferring data and documents, obtaining approvals and settling financial claims. He also underscored the platform’s importance in documenting medication prescriptions and its reliance on a unified medical coding language beside what the platform provides in terms of archiving the medical history of the health insurance policy holder. The platform also helps provide a unified medical file available across all health institutions linked to the platform.
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