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Software like HHIMS play a pivotal role in fulfilling Mahinda Chinthana aims:

Monday, 19 December 2011 16:15

Software like the HHIMS, Hospital Health Information Management System can significantly improve service delivery to the citizen; They are pivotal in achieving the goals of the “Mahinda Chintana ‘Vision for the Future’ “, says Telecommunication and Information Technology Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya.

The Minister said so at a ceremony held at the Karavanella Base Hospital in Kegalle recently at which the - Hospital Health Information Management Systems (HHIMS) - was formally presented to him.

Speaking further on the occasion the Minister stated that one of the core aims of the Government’s said policy statement is to make people’s lives comfortable through the use of ICT.

Thanks to this new software, the fruition of a joint effort by the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) and the Health Ministry, patient care will receive a shot in the arm. This will do away with the need for patients to register themselves on each and every visit to the hospital. Moreover the software will enable the hospital to preserve and retrieve medical records adding relief to both patient and doctor. Software like this contribute much towards making Sri Lanka the wonder of Asia by 2016, the challenge placed before us by the President, the Minister attested.

President’s support for e-Sri Lanka initiative, cause of country’s success in ICT

Monday, 19 December 2011 08:52

ICTA Chairman, Prof. P. W. Epasinghe

A project for initially making 50,000 persons IT literate within a month was officially launched by MP Namal Rajapaksa on the invitation of Telecommunication and IT Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya recently.

Several Ministers and Government officials including Senior Rural Affairs Minister Athauda Seneviratne and Presidential Advisor ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) Chairman Prof. P. W. Epasinghe also graced the occasion.

Speaking to the audience at the launch held at the Vidyasagara Pirivena Buddhist Temple at Kotiyakumbura , Kegalle, ICTA Chairman put the project, aptly called ‘e-diriya’, in its true perspective. The Professor said that the support President Mahinda Rajapaksa gave for the e-Sri Lanka initiative was at the root of the country’s successful use of ICT for development.

The address by the Chairman of ICTA the apex body responsible for implementing the e-Sri Lanka initiative, gave a succinct view of the national IT literacy initiative, “e-diriya” as follows:-

“As we now launch yet another important project under the e-Sri Lanka initiative, I believe that it is my duty, very briefly, to explain the goals of the project .

IT literacy, a must for benefitting from development: MP Namal Rajapaksa

Wednesday, 07 December 2011 12:41

(From left) Silver medalist R. M. Shivanti, ICTA Chairman Prof. P. W. Epasinghe, Senior Rural Affairs Minister Athauda Seneviratne, Hambantota District MP Namal Rajapaksa and Telecommunication and Technology Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya Information Technology literacy is vital for truly reaping the fruits of development, says Hambantota District MP Namal Rajapaksa.

The MP points out that there should be an IT literate society if the benefits of development are to effectively accrue to Sri Lanka which is currently progressing in the path of development.

MP Namal Rajapaksa said so while officially inaugurating the ‘e-diriya’ national IT literacy initiative at the Vidyasagara Pirivena Buddhist Temple at Kotiyakumbura in Kegalle recently.

‘e-diriya’ initiative aims at providing basic computer knowledge to 50,000 ‘Samurdhi’ recipients and schoolchildren.

MP Namal Rajapaksa emphasised that Information Technology was an important tool in every sphere of the country’s development. Due to this many take great interest in the use of IT as a tool. Pointing out that the number of the country’s telephone connections had exceeded the population, MP Namal said further that the main objective of the ‘e-diriya’ national IT literacy initiative was to make the use of computers too reach such a level.

However MP Namal Rajapaksa stressed that it was imperative that the computer, internet and telephone are used for healthy purposes. The MP points out that the country’s development becomes more meaningful only if the future generation becomes righteous. For this the background should be prepared by the schools, the MP added.