Pierrakakis: All citizens will now have access to digital services

The Minister of Digital Governance, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, spoke about the important role of IDIKA in dealing with the pandemic in an interview with the newspaper Real news, saying characteristically that “from April 2021 to 4/1/2022 he has circulated almost 92,000,000 self test from 102 drug stores, to 10,611 pharmacies and 161 supermarkets that are available free of charge to the citizens “, he stated.

In fact, as he stressed from Monday, January 10, the integration of insurance funds in electronic prescribing is completed and “so all citizens will now have access to digital services.” Mr. Pierrakakis underlined the great response of the citizens who use the intangible prescription system, as “the percentage of prescriptions and referrals that are issued intangible is constantly rising and now moves over 38%, while many days it exceeds 40%”, while He also spoke about the electronic medical file of the health that the ministry is planning, “where there will be all the medical history of the citizen”.

Referring to the vaccination system, he noted that “our strategy has proved to be a complete success, and vaccination coverage is constantly increasing. This is a dynamic situation, which requires continuous management adjustment and cooperation in European and international field “, while he underlined that Greece has been at the forefront internationally for the means of dealing with the pandemic” with initiatives such as the European Certificate COVID-19 and that use of instruments such as 13033 has been described as good practice by the OECD. Greece was awarded at the WITSA 2021 World Informatics Conference in the “Digital Opportunity / Inclusion Award” category for the public sector. “This reflects the effort we have all made together for the functioning of the state and the economy during the two years of the pandemic, state, citizens, businesses, engineers and public and private sector executives, and it belongs to everyone.”

Finally, speaking about the application of identity in relation to the vaccination certificate, Mr. Pierrakakis stressed that “our strategy for the identification data is to pass step by step in the digital age. The beginning was made with the certificate of identity which can be used exclusively for the verification of certificates in accordance with the measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 “. He even concluded by saying that “we are planning the expansion of the service with the introduction of the identity in the wallet, but also of the driver’s license, and in a few months we will see the implementation”.

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