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المملكة: A new Saudi innovation to verify medications accompanying travelers


His Excellency inaugurated Dr. Hisham bin Saad Al-Jadhaie, which relies on artificial intelligence techniques to organize and control the entry of Service "Monitor"

This service was developed by Saudi national cadres in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory "torrent" affiliated with the Authority, to make a qualitative shift from traditional control to proactive protection based on data.

The service aims to facilitate the monitoring of restricted medicines with travelers, and overcome previous challenges such as: slow procedures, multiple languages ​​of medicines, and difficulty in reading some manual prescriptions; Which improves the experience of visitors to the Kingdom.

And it "Monitor" By automating the matching process between the components of the restricted drug and the patient’s condition (via the medical report), or the permitted quantity (via the prescription), with support for more than 50 different languages. To complete matching with accuracy and high speed.

Artificial Intelligence

It is a service "Monitor" One of the outputs of the artificial intelligence laboratory "torrent" Which was launched by the Authority last February; As a platform for developing and adopting technical solutions based on artificial intelligence; With the aim of enhancing innovation and raising the efficiency of the Authority’s regulatory and operational processes.

It also contributes to expanding partnerships with government agencies and specialized technical companies to exchange knowledge and develop capabilities in this field, in line with the objectives of the Health Sector Transformation Program, one of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 programmes.

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