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Saudi Health Administration Community

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A professional space that brings together stakeholders across healthcare administration

Connect · Lead · Transform

Who we are

Saudi Health Administration Community

SHAC is the first national professional space dedicated to health administration, bringing together executives, academics, students and everyone with an interest in the field within a single professional community.

A group photo of SHAC members and the session’s guest, standing together.
Iwan meeting · The Journey to Improve Patient Experience · Thursday, 20 August 2026
A young member asks a question, both hands open, with listeners behind him.
A senior participant speaks into the microphone during the session.
Iwan meeting · The Journey to Improve Patient Experience · Thursday, 20 August 2026

We seek to build a space where experience meets ambition, knowledge meets practice, and professional relationships meet opportunities to learn, grow and lead.

  • Connect

    We build bridges between the stakeholders of health administration, and create a space for dialogue, for exchanging experience and for building professional relationships.

  • Lead

    We empower talent, pass on expertise, and turn knowledge into more informed decisions and practices.

  • Transform

    We translate connection and knowledge into initiatives and practices that make a real difference to health administration.

Why we exist

Because health administration does not only stand behind systems, resources and decisions; its impact shows in the patient's experience and in the efficiency of healthcare institutions.

Our projects

One of the visit’s participants, smiling, holds the SHAC award at Alsobh Hospital.

Field visit13 May 2026

The presenter at an Iwan session, before a slide with the SHAC and Iwan logos and the line “we’ll contact you when an alternative doctor is available”; the audience from behind.

Iwan meeting20 August 2026

The presenter of an Iwan session mid-sentence, hand open, between two listeners.

Iwan meeting26 September 2026

The community’s work tracks

  1. Iwan

    One of SHAC's programmes

  2. Introduction to Health InsuranceIwan meetings

  3. Visit to Alsobh Hospital

    13 May 2026

  4. World Play DayAwareness for World PTSD Day

  5. The Weekly Newsletter

  6. Leaders development programme

Iwan — One of SHAC's programmes

An Iwan meeting begins with confirming the guest and ends with documenting the knowledge shared and measuring the experience, run jointly by the programmes, relations, content, data and media teams.

An Iwan meeting from the back of the room: the title slide carries the Iwan logo; the host stands, the guest is seated, the audience seen from behind.
Iwan meeting · Patient Engagement · Saturday, 26 September 2026

Iwan has hosted

Monday, 27 July 2026Google Meet

Health Insurance in the KingdomA reading of the landscape and a look at the futureRejected claims: the challenges, the indicators and the chances to improve

The presenter's portrait, from the session poster.

Presenter

Dr. Ali Al-Othman

د. علي العثمان

Chief Risk Officer (CRO)

خبرة بقرابة ٢٠ عام في قطاع التأمين الصحي

About the session

في اول لقاءات إيوان SHAC، نستضيف خبير في قطاع التأمين الصحي بخبرة تمتد لنحو 20 عامًا، في لقاء معرفي يسلط الضوء على واقع القطاع، والعلاقة بين أطراف المنظومة التأمينية، وأبرز التحديات والاتجاهات المستقبلية، إلى جانب دراسة حالة تفاعلية حول الاحتيال التأميني، بما يمنح المشاركين فهمًا أعمق للقطاع من منظور عملي واستراتيجي

Session axes

  1. قراءة المشهد الحالي لقطاع التأمين الصحي.
  2. مثلث المنظومة التأمينية.
  3. أبرز تحديات القطاع.
  4. هل تستطيع اكتشاف الاحتيال؟ (دراسة حالة تفاعلية).
  5. التأمين الصحي في ظل رؤية المملكة 2030.

Thursday, 20 August 2026بداية واعدة

The Journey to Improve Patient Experience

The presenter standing, speaking into the microphone.

Presenter

Ms. Alaa Bakhsh

أ. آلاء بخش

قائدة في الرعاية الصحية والتمريض بخبرة تتجاوز 17 عامًا في التشغيل الصحي، تحسين العمليات، وتجربة المريض.

About the session

Held in partnership with our host partner as part of Iwan, one of SHAC's programmes, this session looked at patient experience from a practical, operational perspective, and at the role of operations and data in improving the patient journey and resolving points of friction. It also covered waiting times, length of stay, patient feedback and complaints, and service levels (SLAs), and how to turn them into opportunities to improve healthcare services and raise their efficiency.

Session axes

  1. The patient's journey and experience
  2. Patient experience from an operational perspective
  3. Managing waiting, queues and points of friction
  4. Real-world challenges in patient experience
  5. From challenge to improvement: how we build a better experience
  • An attendee joins the discussion.
  • An attendee, seen from behind, recording the session on his phone.
  • The presenter after the session, at SHAC's «Welcome» roll-up.

Thursday, 3 September 2026Google meet

From the Meeting Room to the Patient ExperienceHow do policy and governance shape your treatment journey?

The presenter's portrait.

Presenter

Mr. Naif Asiri

أ. نايف عسيري

خبير ومستشار ومدرب معتمد في تحسين تجربة المرضى، وخبرة في الضيافة الصحية، القيادة، والتخطيط الاستراتيجي، وقدم أكثر من 152 برنامجًا تدريبيًا لأكثر من 7,400 متدرب.

About the session

جلسة حوارية تناقش كيف تؤثر السياسات والحوكمة في تجربة المريض ورحلته العلاجية، مع التركيز على إشراك المريض في صناعة القرار، والرعاية المرتكزة على الإنسان، وثقافة التعاطف والتواصل وحقوق المرضى.

Session axes

  1. المريض كشريك في الصنع والقرار
  2. الرعاية المرتكزة على الانسان وتصميم الخطة العلاجية
  3. ثقافة التعاطف وحقوق ومسؤوليات المرضى

Saturday, 26 September 2026بداية واعدة

Patient EngagementFrom compliance to partnership

The presenter seated beside the screen, addressing the room.

Presenter

Dr. Mohammad Faisal Al-Mobarak

د. محمد فيصل المبارك

سفير جودة

استشاري الطب الباطني (جامعة فيينا)

استشاري ادارة الجودة

CPHQ, CPHRM, CPXP

Six Sigma Master Black Belt

About the session

جلسة عملية حول ما يعنيه إشراك المريض فعليًا، وما تُظهره البيانات الوطنية في المملكة العربية السعودية، وخمس تقنيات يمكن لفريقك تطبيقها ابتداءً من الأسبوع القادم

Session axes

  1. أين تقف المملكة العربية السعودية اليوم؟
  2. ماذا يعني إشراك المريض؟
  3. ماذا تُظهر الأدلة؟
  4. خمس مهارات عمليةماذا تقول وماذا تفعل مع المريض بجانب السرير، وفي العيادة، وعند الاستقبال
  5. كيف نجعلها مستدامة؟القيادة، والهياكل التنظيمية، والأخطاء التي قد تُضعف هذا النهج.
  • A full room from behind, facing the slide "What patient engagement means".
  • A slide with the appointment-desk example; the audience from behind.
  • The slide "Does it work?" on decision aids, before the audience.

The Weekly Newsletter

Trusted, concise health and management content that keeps the community in constant touch with its members and its audience.

Subscribing to the weekly newsletter — coming soon

  • هل تعكس مدة بقاء المريض في المستشفى جودة الرعاية؟
  • كيف يساهم التأمين الصحي في تحسين جودة الرعاية الصحية؟
  • الوقاية من الأمراض في كأس العالم؛
  • هل التأمين الصحي في المملكة العربية السعودية يقتصر على تغطية تكاليف العلاج فقط؟
  • هل الحل
  • منظومة واحدة .. لسلامة الحاج
  • يوم عرفة

#نشرة_الأسبوع

Who we bring together

The «Welcome to the Saudi Health Administration Community» roll-up in the venue corridor, two attendees walking past.
Iwan meeting · The Journey to Improve Patient Experience · Thursday, 20 August 2026

the stakeholders of health administration

  • Executives

    Decision-makers and leaders who turn vision into decisions and practices that make a difference.

  • Academics

    Researchers and experts who develop knowledge and connect it to real-world challenges.

  • Students

    A rising generation building its knowledge today to lead the future of health administration.

  • Enthusiasts

    People passionate about health administration who want to understand it and help it grow.

SHAC’s own words, in the Arabic they were written in.

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