UAE: DHA becomes first Dubai govt entity to launch paperless electronic financial system
Source: Middle East Insurance Review | Nov 2017
United Arab Emirates Life & Health
The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) has launched the first integrated electronic financial system, becoming the first government entity in Dubai to adopt the smart system which covers all external and internal financial transactions involving all suppliers dealing with DHA departments and sectors.
The DHA has started automating its systems and services to dispose of paper transactions, following the announcement of Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, who stated that the emirate of Dubai will celebrate the end of the governmental paper-transaction era by issuing the last printed government document in 2021.
Through the adoption of the “Smart Resource Management System” and “Smart Expense System”, the DHA finally eliminated all paper financial transactions of suppliers, as well as internal transactions of DHA sectors and departments as it has successfully completed 11,651 transactions electronically from November 2016 until 3 October, as an experimental phase before the operational launch of the system.
HE Humaid Al Qutami, Chairman of the Board and Director General of the DHA, said this system will help bring about qualitative transformation and optimal investment in the financial resources and will increase efficiency and increase compatibility between the Department of Finance and the Financial Audit Department at DHA. M