The digital economy working group determined the task of the regulatory and operator system of the health system, and according to the resolution of this working group, which will be announced soon, health operators will be the intermediary between the public sector and the private sector to provide services.
Attached to Iran digital economy annotation, according to the document finalized in the Digital Economy Working Group, which was sent to the Implementation Board for final review, 4 levels have been determined for the health system.
This resolution is supposed to be signed by the first vice president in the coming weeks.
Mehdi Khodadadi, the CEO of Dr. Saina and the representative of the country’s computer trade union organization in the meeting of the digital economy working group, announced in the attached interview: “Based on the document finalized in the digital economy working group, the Ministry of Health will be at the top of the decision-making and policy-making area and the custodian of the country’s health system and In the lower layer, the regulator of this area is placed.
According to Article 8 of the Regulation on supporting knowledge-based and job-creating production in the field of health, the Ministry of Health, in cooperation with the Ministry of Communications, was required to approve within two months the intelligentization program for the supply chain of health-oriented services and products, focusing on the components of the regulatory-operational system.
With a delay of one year, the Ministry of Health sent its proposal for the activities of smart operators in the field of digital health in the form of a draft proposal to the Digital Economy Working Group. This draft was met with many criticisms.
Combining the three tasks assigned to the Ministry of Health by the Board of Ministers in one regulation was one of the legal objections to this draft, based on which the Digital Economy Steering Committee required the Ministry of Health to remove the “instructions for distributing medicine through platforms” from the regulation. provided separately and set separately.
He said: According to what has been predicted, the Ministry of Health is going to announce its policies for the country’s health system to the regulatory layer, and this layer will turn the policies announced by the Ministry into approvals for implementation. According to him, 6 ministries, as well as the scientific and technological vice president, the virtual business union and the computer trade union organization are placed in this layer.
Pointing out that it is the first time that two seats are considered for the private sector with voting rights in the regulatory layer, Khodadadi said: Before this, the Ministry of Health had proposed that the policy-making and regulatory layer should be specifically at the disposal of this ministry, but The measures taken by the private sector and the digital economy working group were determined to separate the policy layer from regulation and to involve other sectors in this layer, because in this case, monopoly can be prevented.
According to what has been predicted, at the regulatory level of the Digital Health Committee (Digital Health) with the presence of the Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education (Chairman), the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Secretary), the Ministry of Cooperation, Labor and Social Welfare, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance (J.A. Central Insurance), Vice-Chancellor of Scientific Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy, Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Support (Armed Forces Medical Services Organization), Social Security Organization, Health Insurance Organization, Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade, Ministry of Information, Center The national virtual space and representatives of the non-governmental sector, including the representative of the country’s medical system organization, the country’s computer trade union organization and the national union of virtual businesses, will be determined.
Khodadadi said that it is expected that the regulatory layer of rules and the way operators and private sector businesses operate will be specified in the regulatory layer, and then the operators of this area will convert these rules into a number of web services and make them available to private sector businesses.
Based on what is predicted, the activity license of the operators will also be issued by the regulatory layer and the digital health committee formed in this department.
The member of the Computer Trade Union Organization announced that operators should provide sustainable services to businesses and the only part that will directly serve people are businesses.
Pointing out that it is predicted that operators will not enter the field of serving people, he said: If this possibility was provided for operators to be able to serve people, businesses would gradually disappear and operators could simply establish a monopoly in this field. do
The Steering Committee of the Digital Economy Working Group is currently finalizing the guidelines and how the drug distribution platforms operate, and this guideline is also being finalized separately from this regulation. On December 29, the 90th Committee of the Majlis had given the Ministry of Health 30 working days to determine the criteria for the retail sale of drugs through platforms and to finalize and communicate it with the plan in the digital economy working group. be finalized and communicated.
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