The NDS Team Visits Switzerland
Upon the kind invitation of the Swiss government, Mr. Maher Abu Ghali and
Mr. Hemant Satam (Datamatics) visited the Health Ministry in Bern. The meeting
covered the new developments with NDS and prospects for the future. The Swiss
government expressed its interest in testing and using the new release of NDS as soon as
possible with special interest in the web-enabled features of NDS 4.0. The
meeting started with Mr. Laurent Medioni demonstrating the Swiss information systems for
both domestic control and international control and expressed the Swiss governments
interest in having a unified system that can handle both. Mr. Abu Ghali expressed
the potential of NDS 4.0 to handle such requirements. Furthermore, he demonstrated
the benefits of using the new web-enabled features of NDS 4.0 in terms of having licensed
establishments submit their requests for authorizations through the web. The
communication capabilities of NDS were stressed as a major component that can benefit the
Swiss government with data exchange with other regional governments through EDI messages
for enhanced international and regional drug-control.
The meeting was concluded with the intention of working twoards testing NDS 4.0 in
Switzerland as soon as it becomes available.
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