Islamabad: The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has begun the process of introducing digitalisation system on the premises for better functioning.
A meeting was held here at the PMDC office chaired by chairman of the PMDC adhoc Council Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan to improve and revamp the IT system of the office and to implement digitalisation system to speed up the working and to move ahead towards paperless environment.
DG Farjeel Javed and Bilal Abbasi project head from the National Information Technology Board, ministry of information technology and telecommunications, gave briefing regarding the new digitalisation going to be installed.
Dr wasim Ahmed was also present in the meeting.
The digitalisation system which is being implemented includes e-office system which is the first step towards automating the working and paperless environment.
This system will bring paradigm shift by eradicating the limitations and drawbacks of physical filing including, tempering of official data security and transparency etc.
After that, other system is the MIS (Management Information System), which will help in Digitalisation of software system for all institutions imparting medical and dental education, online registration system etc.
The Chairman Ad-hoc Council in the meeting emphasised that IT reforms and their implementation is a must in the organisation and is need of the time. The purpose of e-office system is to provide a standard platform common to all Federal Organisations, keeping in view the existing rules regulations of the organisation and to provide a fast, reliable and transparent system for quick disposal of working and to reduce the unnecessary delay and cost associated with traditional physical file system and record keeping.
He added that with this system doctors and medical dental institutions shall be facilitated promptly.
He said that it will help to improve availability of data by utilisation of technology and information system in disposal of day to day business of the PM&DC.
It will improve the intercommunication between different departments of PM&DC. Chairman appreciated the advisor to President/Chairman Prof. Mubashir Malik on facilitating the process of digitalisation.
Chairman Justice (r) Mian Shakirullah Jan after the meeting welcomed and approved the idea of digitalization and strictly directed to start the process immediately.
He said he believes that if this decision makes changes for betterment then the decisions should be implemented at once.
On his directions, letters have been written to the National informational technology Board to send a team of experts well versed with the whole system to start the process. He said that we shall leave no stone unturned to make things better for PMDC.
