MINISTRY OF HEALTH ISRAEL
“ I wanted to create infrastructure that otherwise would not exist . It was always my hobby to think ‘ how can this process be improved ?’”
that there ’ s always a way .”
The challenge for Lev-Ami ’ s team is providing the best possible service to all of these units , through creating common technological platforms as the means for synergy : “ If you do a good job planning ahead and building enterprise-wide solutions , re-using the common features for any additional required process becomes easy . It ’ s like a city architecture : design a new city well , and traffic will flow seamlessly ; trying to expand a road that was built for carriages in the 18th century will prove much more difficult .
“ We ’ re now in a better situation , but we still have a lot of work ahead of us just to make sure we ’ re supplying the basics .”
The Israeli Ministry of Health , as part of the National ‘ Digital Israel ’ initiative , aspires to promote the Israeli healthcare system through the use of digital technologies . “ We had to make a significant leap in the way we supply health services ,” she says . “ There ’ s a saying : trying to provide medical services in the 21st century using 20th century methods would require an impossible amount of doctors . The transformational part of what we ’ re doing is looking at the health system and the technologies to move it forward .
“ As a ministry leading the transformation , we have an array of tools to utilise . We combine the use of regulatory guidance with government incentives ,
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