WEEKLY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMY NEWSPAPER
‘Ministry of Health e-Government Roundtable Meeting’ hosted Ministry of Health Deputy Undersecretary Dr. Şuayip Birinci, Health Information Systems CEO Dr. Mahir Ülgü, ministerial department heads and managers, agencies and private sector companies cooperating with technology, Türk Telekom, Fujitsu, Oracle, Palo Alto Networks, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and guests. BThaber Editorial Coordinator Ayhan Sevgi moderated the meeting. Highlighting that BThaber has a role of content bridge between IT industry and IT professionals for 22 years; he stated that; “We organize our events to generate content for our publication. We held the e-Government Roundtable Meetings with many different government agencies. We come together with you in these meetings and we get to know each other. This Roundtable Meeting is the 3rd one we conducted with the Ministry of Health. We thank them for their support.” The system should have a self-check system Ministry of Health Deputy Undersecretary Dr. Şuayip Birinci underlined the fact that e-Government Roundtable Meetings are very productive and he shared information about Ministry of Health e-Health Practices and Personal Health System e-Pulse. Birinci explained: “I am pleased with the discussion here of the Ministry of Health information policy. The center of this project is
Turkey’s health will be managed by informatics tools 32nd e-Government Roundtable meeting was held on June 23, in Ankara with the Ministry of Health. Ministry of Health Deputy Undersecretary Şuayip Birinci emphasized on the holistic health management system and stated that “Citizens should regulate their own health; the Ministry of Health should fulfill their responsibilities. We need to make sector a part of this job.” e-Pulse and that makes us happier. From this meeting; we expect the emergence of different projects for the future and qualified changes regarding the road map for the projects. As you know, we realized the Personal Health System project. We actually want to manage the health. As the Ministry of Health, our greatest tool in managing health is IT. We need to use IT tools accurately. We try to enable citizens, employees and field managers to manage the process easily in best conditionals and cost efficiently. We want the controller to be a strong element at this point. The best elements as controllers are the citizens. We wanted to do something that enables citizens to manage their own health and us to manage Turkey’s health. We do not want to deal with numerical statistics any more. We try to a force everyone in this country to be concerned about health as much as us as the health managers and aim at being healthy with developing
predictive models. Health is easy to manage; in fact the hard thing is really to provide adequate health care one need and eliminate the perception of abuse. The more transparent you get, the more abuse you prevent. Citizens should regulate their own health; Ministry of Health should fulfill their responsibilities. For this to happen, we shall trigger whatever is necessary in terms of software or hardware to manage the entire process. In the last 2 years in this regard, we realized e-Pulse, telemedicine and many other applications. We need to make all citizens to associate with this system, make them a part of it and include the industry. Our service capacity is quite good but we need to make the future processes sustainable and transform the system into a structure that can make its own self-check.” Health data has become more valuable than credit card data Stating that they take part in many projects; Erkan
Mızrak from Turk Telekom said that “Many projects are running in Türk Telekom’s data center and it is making us proud. We have projects on chronic patient followups and arrhythmia.” Alper Yıldırım from Fujitsu stressing that they have over 200 employees in Turkey stated “Our motto is humanoriented innovation. When we look at the world in three layers; there are digital information layer under the human layer and below the infrastructure layer. To ensure the communication of objects, Fujitsu gives great importance to sensor technology.” Utku Kaya from Oracle stated that they had a very efficient e-Government Roundtable meeting and added: “Oracle spends 8 billion dollars of the 38 billion dollars of revenue to R&D. An important part of the development activities are above the standards. The most important standards are in the health field. Oracle is not only developing software, hardware and services, but also supports the health
sector with its contribution to the development of standards.” Açelya Cevher Özçelik from Palo Alto Networks said that “Health data has become more valuable than credit card data. We are making the analysis of cyber security threats. We are trying to work closely with the health sector in Turkey and in the world. We would like to contribute to the sector with our experience on security.” Tuncay Marmara from Hewlett Packard explained that “Out of all the things told throughout the day, what I can say is this: We are proud of the reforms and achievements made in recent years in health care sector as citizens and as a company. We determined that many investments mentioned in this meeting are shown as examples to the world. We want to continue to share the designed integrated systems, security solutions and services in accordance with the Ministry’s goals with you.”
Roll up your sleeves for out-of-the-box approaches Pointing to the change in Marketing from head to toe Criteo Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa General Manager Henke states that especially in the mobile side of the business Turkey’s potential is dazzling. Digital market showed a remarkable growth in recent years in Turkey. According to ad-tech company Criteo’s
Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa General Manager Dirk Henke, we can still say that Turkey is still behind in mobile shopping. Because in the world, while over 35% of all sales in general are actualized over mobile devices, in Turkey the rate is 23%. Despite all this, according to Dirk Henke, visiting Turkey for the Digital Age Summit
held last month, what makes Turkey special is its growth rate. “Not even half years ago, the share was 11% in mobile sales; so we’re seeing 12% growth compared to the previous year. This makes Turkey the fastest growing country that I know.” According to Henke, it is not difficult to assume that Turkey will keep up with the
world average taking into the country’s young population adopting technological trends rapidly. For marketers; these expectations mean they have to adapt the strategies and products to this change. He stated that: “Now is the high time to develop mobile marketing strategies and reach customers from different devices.”
Integrated solution architecture is redefining security
Enuygun.com raised its target for 2016 Founded by Çağlar Erol and Nihan Çolak Erol in 2008, Enuygun.com has a good reputation with its growth rate and success since its launch 8 years ago. Enuygun.com, in service since 2008 enables users to be able to easily find the most suitable flight tickets to purchase among over 1000 airline companies quickly and safely. We talked about the establishment, recent activities and plans for the upcoming period with Enuygun.com CEO Erol Çağlar. “In 2008, after we sell Çember.net, we started making researches about the latest trends around the world. As a result of this research, we predicted that “price
comparison” model would be used more often by users in the coming years and we started with the Enuygun. com project. First, we started with GSM, insurance and bank loans for the project and especially bank loans have reached significant user traffic. We decided to add a new success to the side of bank loans and decided to concentrate on travel issues. We began to perform studies on the comparison of the flight prices in 2010, and then we added the hotels option. Enuygun.com reached 8 million visitors and 50 million page views since 2010. I can express that we have grown 100% every year since we were established.”
Motorola Solutions with instant data analysis and integrated monitoring system for preventive steps in security offers a road map to be proactive, bringing practicality and efficiency in business processes of the concerned public units. CCW 2016 (Critical Communications World 2016) held in the Netherland’s capital city of Amsterdam revealed hardware, applications, solutions that are enriched with suitable software and integrations aiming to be proactive in the security software industry. As an example of this, Motorola Solutions reveals a holistic digital evidence management system with wearable camera, wireless speaker and microphone combining these with the cloud-based storage and management systems via its innovative solution Si500 VSM. This cloud-based storage and management software provides secure data storage, management and sharing for a lower cost compared to other
solutions in the market. Public security units’ obtaining digital evidence via solutions in which management software system, video cameras, radio microphones and speakers are integrated facilitates the decision making and management processes. A new wearable camera that can work with TETRA two-way radios with wireless speakers, microphone, and cloud-based evidence management software
combination solutions decreases the number of devices that constitute a heavy weight for field public safety workers. Also, with CommandCentral Vault digital evidence management software offers speed. CommandCentral Vault software, with large storage capacity and computeraided dispatch and records management system, makes digital evidence management practical, trackable and economical.
Countdown begins for the CIO Vision Informatics Association of Turkey’s traditional “CIO Vision Meeting” will be held on July 21. Informatics Association of Turkey’s traditional CIO Vision Meetings bring together again the CIOs of Turkey’s leading companies on 21 July. 6th CIO Vision Meeting has the
title of “Digital Transformation and Cloud Strategies” and will discuss all the details of the digital transformation and cloud computing thoroughly. The event will be held on Thursday, July 21 in CVK Park Bosphorus with the experience and knowledge of the IT Summit Events company.
The event’s agenda is as follows: • Big Data in the Cloud: Combination of Power • Managing and Understanding the Social Media Data • Digital transformation trends • Redesigning business models • Digital conversion from information management to process optimization • What is required to perform digital transformation and make it sustainable?