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The Health Insurance Organization
The Health Insurance Organization was established in 1964 as the institution in Egypt responsible for social health insurance, providing compulsory health insurance to workers in the formal sector. The HIO is an independent government organization under the supervision of the Minister of Health and Population. It finances health care services through a combination of payroll and other taxes. It delivers health care services through its own network of hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies, as well as through contracting private sector providers. The headquarters in Cairo works under the direction of the chairman of the board.
The HIO first started operating in the governorate of Alexandria. From the beginning, the intention was to expand social health insurance to the entire population, but for various reasons, this did not happen. Instead, coverage has been extended to three major groups of beneficiaries under different legislation:
* Government employees (Law 32, enacted in 1975)
* Government1, public and private sector employees, pensioners and widows (Law 79, enacted in 1975)
* School children (Law 99, enacted in 1992).
Each of the laws above stipulates the beneficiary population, the package of benefits, the beneficiary premiums and co-payments, and administrative aspects. In effect, the HIO manages several separate social health insurance programs, not a single, unified program. For example, in July 1992, when the People’s Assembly of Egypt enacted Law 99 expanding health insurance to cover all school children, the HIO set up the School Health Insurance Program (SHIP) as a separate program covering school children only.
SHIP started operating in February 1993, and has since become an important source of health care financing in Egypt. Only registered students are eligible to enroll. Children, who are not going to school, often those from the poorest families with high burden of ill health, are not eligible. SHIP was implemented in three stages. The first was in February 1993 with the objective of covering 5.017 million students in large cities and some districts. The second was in October 1993 with the objective of covering 5.089 million children in rural areas. The third stage started in October 1994, with the objective of achieving universal coverage. One hundred percent coverage (14.89 million school children) was achieved by June 1995.
The idea of National Technology started in 1996 by a service engineer in the Bayer Diagnostics (A manufacturer of Laboratory Analyzers), who recognized the need for information technology in medical laboratories in the Middle East. Mohamed El Shahed, aged 27 years then, started to study the benefits that current information technologies can provide to clinical laboratories and studied available products in the advanced markets. He searched for investors that can invest in a product that didn’t even exist in the region, then for young talented software developers to make the idea a reality.
By 1997, National Technology was born with a goal to provide Laboratory Information Systems and by end of 1997 the first simple LIS developed by National Technology was installed in Egypt. In 1998, the first analyzer was interfaced to the LIS and by 1999 National Technology took its current legal shape and started a true success story.
Now, National Technology is a leading LIMS market player with a customer base of more than 230 customers, including the biggest entities in the private and public health sector in Egypt, also operating in other countries in MENA region and Africa (KSA, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Iraq, Sudan and Nigeria).
For DMS , became the Middle East and Africa’s largest software producers in the Healthcare, finance ,and industrial sector. Due to the continuing research & development, and the accumulated business knowledge, DMS achieved an impressive growth record. In the past, there was a big shortage in the Arabic solutions for the healthcare ,finance, and manufacturing fields. Being on different platforms ,satisfying the different requirements of our customers , providing bilingual systems (Arabic/English)to suit the needs of the Arab world ,and multilingual systems to suit the ever –growing European market are some of the characteristics that render DMS ’solutions as the most perfect ones.
UNITELL Company founded to be the A to Z system integrator partner for IT and telecom integrated solutions and services to large and mid-sized commercial, industrial, and government entities.
The Health Insurance Organization
The Health Insurance Organization was established in 1964 as the institution in Egypt responsible for social health insurance, providing compulsory health insurance to workers in the formal sector. The HIO is an independent government organization under the supervision of the Minister of Health and Population. It finances health care services through a combination of payroll and other taxes. It delivers health care services through its own network of hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies, as well as through contracting private sector providers. The headquarters in Cairo works under the direction of the chairman of the board.
The HIO first started operating in the governorate of Alexandria. From the beginning, the intention was to expand social health insurance to the entire population, but for various reasons, this did not happen. Instead, coverage has been extended to three major groups of beneficiaries under different legislation:
* Government employees (Law 32, enacted in 1975)
* Government1, public and private sector employees, pensioners and widows (Law 79, enacted in 1975)
* School children (Law 99, enacted in 1992).
Each of the laws above stipulates the beneficiary population, the package of benefits, the beneficiary premiums and co-payments, and administrative aspects. In effect, the HIO manages several separate social health insurance programs, not a single, unified program. For example, in July 1992, when the People’s Assembly of Egypt enacted Law 99 expanding health insurance to cover all school children, the HIO set up the School Health Insurance Program (SHIP) as a separate program covering school children only.
SHIP started operating in February 1993, and has since become an important source of health care financing in Egypt. Only registered students are eligible to enroll. Children, who are not going to school, often those from the poorest families with high burden of ill health, are not eligible. SHIP was implemented in three stages. The first was in February 1993 with the objective of covering 5.017 million students in large cities and some districts. The second was in October 1993 with the objective of covering 5.089 million children in rural areas. The third stage started in October 1994, with the objective of achieving universal coverage. One hundred percent coverage (14.89 million school children) was achieved by June 1995.
For DMS , became the Middle East and Africa’s largest software producers in the Healthcare, finance ,and industrial sector. Due to the continuing research & development, and the accumulated business knowledge, DMS achieved an impressive growth record. In the past, there was a big shortage in the Arabic solutions for the healthcare ,finance, and manufacturing fields. Being on different platforms ,satisfying the different requirements of our customers , providing bilingual systems (Arabic/English)to suit the needs of the Arab world ,and multilingual systems to suit the ever –growing European market are some of the characteristics that render DMS ’solutions as the most perfect ones.
UNITELL Company founded to be the A to Z system integrator partner for IT and telecom integrated solutions and services to large and mid-sized commercial, industrial, and government entities.
The idea of National Technology started in 1996 by a service engineer in the Bayer Diagnostics (A manufacturer of Laboratory Analyzers), who recognized the need for information technology in medical laboratories in the Middle East. Mohamed El Shahed, aged 27 years then, started to study the benefits that current information technologies can provide to clinical laboratories and studied available products in the advanced markets. He searched for investors that can invest in a product that didn’t even exist in the region, then for young talented software developers to make the idea a reality.
By 1997, National Technology was born with a goal to provide Laboratory Information Systems and by end of 1997 the first simple LIS developed by National Technology was installed in Egypt. In 1998, the first analyzer was interfaced to the LIS and by 1999 National Technology took its current legal shape and started a true success story.
Now, National Technology is a leading LIMS market player with a customer base of more than 230 customers, including the biggest entities in the private and public health sector in Egypt, also operating in other countries in MENA region and Africa (KSA, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Iraq, Sudan and Nigeria).