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Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the World Refresher Organization, Egypt (GS1 EGYPT): Egypt Healthcare Authority leads the development of Egypt health care sector with state-of-the-art technology and global standards
Dr. Ahmed El-Sobky, Chairman of Egypt Healthcare Authority, Assistant Minister of Health and Population, General Supervisor of the Universal Health Insurance Project, and Mr. Reno Barbora, Executive Chairman of the World Regulation Organization (GS1), signed a protocol of cooperation between the Authority and the World Remittance Organization (GS1 EGYPT) branch of Egypt, which specializes exclusively in the management of the GS1 system within the Arab Republic of Egypt.
The Protocol was signed by Egypt Healthcare Authority, Dr. Amir El-Telwany, Executive Director of the Authority, and by the World Organization for the Advancement of Women in Egypt, Dr. Ahmed Hassan Al-Qala, Executive Director of the World Health Organization in Egypt, with a number of leaders and officials from both sides.
Dr. Ahmed El-Sobky, President of Egypt Healthcare Authority, stressed that collaboration with GS1 Technical and Technical Support World Organization was an essential step towards achieving the Authority Cyber inclusion Strategy, noting that the GS1 Global Numbering System helps the Authority to track all clinical operations inputs within all health facilities, thus achieving the highest safety and safety rates for patients and users of universal health insurance.
Dr. Ahmed El-Sobky, in cooperation with the World Regulating Organization, noted that the implementation of the GS1 system was an important step in controlling the quality of health services and that the Port said, Luxor and Ismaili governorates would be a first stage in implementing the clinical and cyber-inclusivity tracking system using the international numbering techniques of the GS1 system, in line with the Authority strategy to use sophisticated solutions and adopt the latest methods to service the Universal health insurance system.
He continued: We are keen on innovative solutions to improve the quality of health-care services and synchronizing data to strengthen our position in global competitiveness, emphasizing Egypt capabilities to apply technology and to transform into a digital society in general, most notably the health-care sector. He also thanked the World Organization for Numbering for supporting Egypt efforts to use technology and digitize the health-care sector.
For his part, Mr. Reno Barbora, Executive Chairman of the World Numbering Organization (GS1), expressed his pleasure at this collaboration and partnership with Egypt Healthcare Authority, which will serve as a new success story, pointing out that the Organization is helping organizations and companies to do their work more efficiently around the world, following up on the digital transformation of services to benefit health-care providers and ultimately the safety of patients. He continued: our standards enable the identification, compilation and smooth sharing of information, creating a common language that underpins systems and processes around the world, to achieve better outcomes in health care and to improve operational systems. We in GS1 believe in the strength of the standards to change the way we work and live, surely the Organization seeks to provide all support to its members for the application of global systems and standards.
Dr. Hassan Al-Qala, founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the World Health Organization, Egypt GS1 EGYPT branch, was pleased to see that the dream of the Egyptians had been transformed for decades into a reality in the promotion of the health-care sector. Egypt Healthcare Authority was leading the development of Egypt health-care sector with the latest technology and global standards. The Protocol was a clear indication of its efforts to implement the latest international standards in the health-care sector. It was also a good sign of the World Organization support for the efforts of the World Health Organization to use technology and number all sectors, most importantly the health-care sector. It was also a success story from efforts to use international technology and numbering techniques to promote Egyptian exports of medicines.
Dr. Amir El-Telwany, Executive Director of Egypt Healthcare Authority, noted that the cooperation protocol with GS1 was a new starting point in the agency digital transformation of services, and continued: the protocol supports the completion of the digital transformation journey, which we have begun with a set of elements, including the patient in-house treatment trip, complemented by the GS1 numbering system, which will help us to co-ordinate supply and supply chains in health facilities, including medicines and medical supplies, as well as reduce cost and waste, as well as integration with regulations in other health-care bodies, reflecting on the development of patients medical service delivery, and by improving the efficiency of health-care output, both operational and the electronic system of the Health-care Authority.
Dr. Ahmed Hassan Al-Qala, Executive Director of the World Organization for the Advancement of Women, Egypt (GS1 EGYPT), said that he was pleased to sign the Protocol for Cooperation with the Public Authority for Health Care. He continued: we celebrate the signing of the Protocol for Cooperation between the World Organization for the Advancement of Women, Egypt, and Egypt Healthcare Authority, stressing the importance of concerted efforts between the Government and private sectors in favor of the Egyptian patient, using the latest technology to provide a safe environment within Egyptian hospitals. We are pleased that the State is taking pioneering steps in the use of technology and digital transformation to serve the citizen in the most important sector, the health care sector.
Through the Protocol, the parties agreed to cooperate with the WHO Egypt Branch in providing all consultations and support for the implementation of GS1 standards, including the provision to the Authority of product-specific data, numbered in the International Commodity Code, which is dealt with by other health sector bodies, as well as the provision of data on producer and importer companies that are dealt with in the Agency own database, as well as data on production and distribution sites of products that have been numbered in the International Commodity Code of GLN, their placement on an interactive GPS technology map, and the provision of all such information through the Verification Service Verified by GS1 and the provision of GLN codes to government agencies that deal with the Authority and do not have such codes.
The parties also agreed to provide the World Organization for Refreshing in Egypt with technical support and training for the staff of the Authority and its various branches and health facilities in the governorates of Universal health insurance, with a view to deepening the expertise of the working group in the standards and solutions of the GS1 system.
The signing of the protocol of cooperation by the Public Health Care Authority was attended by Dr. Tariq Al-Aqsa, Adviser to the Head of the Authority for Institutional Development, Dr. Ahmed Hamad, Director-General of the General Directorate of the Technical Office of the Chairman of the Authority, Major General Hesham Chende, Director-General of the General Administration for Information Systems and Digital Transformation, and Dr. Ghada Shaker, Member of the Technical Office of the Chairman of the Authority.
By GS1 EGYPT, Dr. Haytham Abdullatif, Director of Government Sector Services, World Organization Branch, Egypt, and Engineer Khaled El Sayed, Sector Manager, World Organization Branch, Egypt.
