التكنولوجيا وأخبارها بوابة مصر لأخبار تكنولوجيا المعلومات والإتصالات
During Narrative Summit’s”Reshaping Norms”digital talks
Artificial Intelligence (AI) expert Ehab Mostafa, CEO and Managing Director of NI
Consulting and former Vice President of the Information Technology Industry Development
Agency (ITIDA), stressed the importance of using technology in the health sector to
support the country’s initiatives during this time especially. Big Data processing, AI
applications, and Internet-of-Things (IOT), in one integrated system are vital tools to
activate preventive medicine, and attract businessmen to invest in the right place based on
well-studied information.
This came during Mostafa’s participation in Narrative Summit’sdigital talks entitled
“Reshaping Norms”, which are aired on its various social media platforms, and which hosts a number of renowned local and global experts addressing the impact of COVID-19, and
how the current pandemic will reshape the future of the economy, social life, and technology, both locally and globally.
During his talk, Mostafa also highlighted that Egypt has tremendouspotential to improve
the health system, and that its youth which isrepresented by nearly 40% of the total
population should be equipped with technologies suchBig Data and artificial intelligence. In
addition, it is vital that the government keep, along with the national ID, an electronic chip
for every citizen, containing all of their medical data, so as to enable access for doctors to
patients’ analysis and medical records in the event of an emergency, Mostafa said.Mostafa
further explained that the system in Egypt can be improved by changing the traditional
method adopted of storing all their medical reports received from a specific inspection or
periodic examination to making use of big data and artificial intelligence for improved monitoring.
Mostafa added that the idea of electronic chips is in fact adopted today in electronic devices that collect and analyze data on a person’s health condition, such asdaily bodily movement, heart pulses and blood sugar levels, and that the goal is to be able to predict health issues in advance, also referred to as “preventative medicine”.
Mostafa also pointed out that applying preventive medicine methods could help alertthe governorates in advanceof certain diseases that could potentially become endemic,across governates. It could also provide them with the rates of their spread among various age groups, as well as their causes, thus affecting its decisions regarding a certain province in terms of supplying medicines at certain quantities, or building hospitals with specific equipment, and most importantly, addressing the causes of such a disease. Lastly, Mostafa stressed the importance of encouraging investors to focus on innovation and technology to further improvethe accuracy and analysis of the available health data.
