6th AASSA General Assembly and Symposium
Prof. Ahmet Nuri Yurdusev, President of the Association of Asian Scientific Academies and Societies (AASSA) and Full Member of TÜBA, and Prof. Ertuğrul Kılıç, Full Member of TÜBA, attended the AASSA General Assembly and International Symposium in Manila, Philippines with the support of the National Academy of Science and Technology of the Philippines (NAST PHL), InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the Department of Science and Technology of the Philippines (DOST).
As a result of the voting at the General Assembly, which convened for the first time under the chairmanship of Prof. Yurdusev; Satryo Soemantri Brodjonegoro from the Indonesian Academy of Sciences, Muhammad Riza Shams Arkedani from the Iranian Academy of Sciences, Narinder K. Mehra from the Indian Academy of Sciences, Frances Separovic from the Australian Academy of Sciences, Satake Kenji from the Japan Science Council, Dohan Kim from the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, B. V. R. Chowdari from the Singapore Academy of Science, Pavel Krestow from the Russian Academy of Sciences and Dilip Subba from the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology were elected as members of the AASSA Board of Directors for the 2024-2027 period.
Prof. Kılıç made a presentation titled Digital Transformation in the Turkish Health System at the international symposium on “Digital Transformation in Healthcare”, which is planned to introduce the digital healthcare ecosystem, present trends, experiences and successful initiatives between developed and developing economies, evaluate the impact of digital transformation on patient management and quality of care, medical education and health workforce development, identify common issues and concerns in Asia, and provide recommendations for the digital transformation process in health. “Of course the government should bear the cost of digital transformation. Türkiye's health care process has been completely digitalized. The e-Nabız Personal Health System, for example, has been enabling Turkish citizens to access their digital health records since 2015. This system draws information from more than 1500 hospitals and 9000 health centers.” He mentioned that Türkiye's digital transformation roadmap, which started in 2004 with the Health Information Systems Action Plan, also included the centralization of health data in 2008 and the establishment of a communication center in 2016 that provides video translation services for the hearing impaired.
