The National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has signed an agreement with eGate Technology to implement the state-of-the-art AI platform.
The agreement is expected to digitally transform healthcare and agriculture services using AI, Biometric Digital Identity & payment smart card, Electronic medical records, hospital management, telemedicine and training & simulation platform.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by Dr. Halilu Ahmad, NASRDA’s Director General and Mr. Essam El Saghir, eGate Technology Chairman and the Managing Director, MilkyWay, Limited, Dr. Olugbenga Leke Oyewole.
Ahmad said: “This agreement will support Nigeria’s ongoing efforts to improve the quality of healthcare and agriculture services offered by enabling the digital transformation using the latest AI technology to streamline the sector operations to increase efficiency that aligns with international standards.”
He also added this digitalisation will have a revolutionary impact on unifying a secured biometric digital identity smart card for every citizen with payment facility.
He said this will also make it easier for citizens to gain access to services and eliminate hours, or even weeks of delay currently caused by the need to show or send physical copies of identity cards or other credentials and reduce the risk of fraud.
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Chairman of eGate technology Mr. Essam Elsaghir said: “We are honored to be selected to lead the digital transformation of healthcare and agriculture sectors in Nigeria, saying smart biometric identity with payment facility has revolutionized the way healthcare and agriculture services are delivered in other parts of the world.
“eGate Technology is leading the way in digital transformation in the region. We believe that digital transformation will improve population access to services management, to increase efficiency, reduce costs and frond transactions, improve data security and privacy, and provide decision makers with statists report for accurate decision at the right time.
“eGate will provide the state-of-the-art solution using AI technology to transform the current systems with a fully integrated digital identity smart card , system will create biometric digital identity to identify citizens and their electronic profiles with financial facility to receive money or do any type of payment to increase efficiency, easier access to services, decreased problems like misidentification and avoid fraudulent transactions.
“Solution will provide citizens with Mobile app to access services from anywhere in lodging appointment , EMR , lab results , Home diagnostics.”
He also explained that telemedicine will facilitate healthcare service in remote areas by the delivery of healthcare from a distance using electronic information and technology, such as computers, cameras, videoconferencing, satellites, wireless communications, and the Internet.
He said healthcare simulation platform is used for education, training and healthcare professionals and students practice to learn valuable skills.
Medical simulation software, according to him, enables medical organisations and institutions to provide continued education, training, and accreditation to their employees.
He said agriculture platform is used to facilitate and manage all agriculture services including loans and management of all inputs like agriculture fertilizations and seeds..etc using his digital identity and payment smart card.
Managing Director, MilkyWay, Limited, Dr Olugbenga Leke Oyewole described the signing of agreement as a milestone and an achievement which if will go a long way in contributing to critical areas in the healthcare and agriculture services development of the country.
According to him, the digital transformation based on AI technology can be used to effectively manage and maintain a unified digital identity for every citizen with includes his EMR in one smart card that can be used for payments and the receive of any finances payment or societal support activities within the country, as well as ensuring effective monitoring of prescriptions , emergency room ,drug control , appointments, services KPI’s mining sites by tracking all mining activities within the country.
He said the technology can re-define our agricultural sector by tracking agricultural activities and providing real time data that can help policy makers in formulating and implementing policies that can meet the yearnings of the populace.
He stressed the telemedicine project using the EMR technology will create a data bank of medical records synchronized for Nigerians so as to make it readily available whenever and wherever they go to within their the country, he added it can enhance medical care thereby promoting healthy living for Nigerians.