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Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health will be Launched in London today and President Maithripala Sirisena will be a special guest at the launch.
The launch will be a part of a special Side Event to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2018 on ‘Global Health Security & the Digital Health Society 2030 – Innovation & Investment for One Planetary Health & Universal Health Coverage’.
The Centre was proposed by Prof. Vajira Dissanayake of the University of Colombo in 2016 and approved by the Commonwealth Health Ministers in Geneva in May 2017.
The keynote speaker at the event is Dr. Christopher Fearne, Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister of Malta.
Prof. Dissanayake will give leadership, as the Chairman, to the Centre. He held the position of the President of the Commonwealth Medical Association since 2016, and he has been leading a Commonwealth Wide Digital Health Initiative since he took office in October 2016 at the 24th Triennial Conference of the Association.
The initiative is expected to gather momentum with the establishment of the Centre.
Issuing a special message on the occasion, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General, of the World Health Organization (WHO), stated “As you know, Universal Health Coverage is WHO’s top priority. Our aim is a world in which all people receive the high-quality health services they need without suffering financial hardship.”
Patricia Scotland QC, Secretary General, The Commonwealth of Nations, stated that “Digital health systems are an increasingly important component in the delivery of health services and care.”
Eliyathamby Friday, 20 April 2018 05:42 PM
When digital health comes into operation,patients’s all the medical records are put into the system but in theory with the information well protected.In practice all the doctors anywhere in Sri Lanka can have access to your medical records and any person working in health care can access your medical records.
Aruj Friday, 20 April 2018 07:56 PM
Absolutely,our confidential medical records become a public property. Our President is a fool who does not understand anything.
Sunil Friday, 20 April 2018 09:45 PM
It is worrying. Now the buz word is digital and everything is going digital without paying attention to data privacy and IT security. Some guys promote ideas to further their career agenda and don't look at all aspects. In early 1980 and 1990, the buz word was privatisation and many SOE' s were privatized without paying much attention to whom it was sold and the social impact to the population.
Ranil Saturday, 21 April 2018 01:34 AM
So, they can develop pharmaceuticals to fit the problems Srilankan have.Vaccine is the most important.there is a billions of dollar Vaccone market in the wotld. Writing next version of the software, stea,ling health related data is importnat for those projects.
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