YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 25, NOYAN TAPAN. A memorandum on cooperation was signed between the Enterprsie Incubator Foundation (EIF) and Egypt's Chamber of Information and Communication Technologies (CIT) during the first Armenian-Egyptian business forum on information and communication technologies on Septemer 22. The document was signed by EIF Director Bagrat Yengibarian and the Egyptian delegation's head, CIT Chairman Magdi Kamal Khiralah. Heads of many Armenian and Egyptian companies - leaders in the ITC sector participated in the forum held on the initiative of the EIF within the framework of IT Month in Armenia. The companies - forum participants are engaged in software design, ICT services delivery, electronic trade, the use of ICT developments in e-governance and e-health and other spheres. M. K. Khiralah noted in his speech on e-health that over 30% of patients in the US and Canada are wrongly diagnosed, and in the last two years 18-28% of patients in these countries were administered wrong drugs. The damage as a result of incorrect diagnoses amounted to 19 billion dollars. According to the speaker, 98 thousand people died due to wrong diagnosing and treatment in Egypt in the same period. In his words, the application of information technologies in the health sector may help reduce these indices significantly.

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