Signing of Tripartite Agreement on Use of National Card’s Digital Identity to Simplify Improve Access to Healthcare Services

Signed by minister of Health and Social Protection, Khalid Ait Taleb, director general of national Security, Abdellatif Hammouchi, and president of the national Commission for the control of personal data protection (CNDP), Omar Serghouchni, this agreement will enable the use of the trusted third-party system developed by national security, with the aim of simplifying and improving citizens’ access to health services, while respecting the confidentiality of data relating to medical records, according to a joint statement issued by the signatories.

As part of the digitization policy initiated by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, this agreement will control and verify the identity of patients, thereby securing and developing the integrated medical information system adopted by the Ministry at the level of health establishments and public hospitals, it added, noting that the agreement will also support the implementation of national healthcare reform projects, while preventing the misuse of other people’s identities in medical records or to obtain certain medicines that require identity verification for special prescriptions.

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