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NATIONAL Commercial Bank (NCB) Jamaica limited, which has been chosen to undertake the pilot project to provide electronic mobile payments of benefits under the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) with the bank’s mobile money platform, NCB Quisk, will roll out its pilot programme next month.

“The use of NCB Quisk will remove the overhead that the Government would have had to pay to prepare and disburse cheques,” a news release from Quisk quotes NCB’s product development officer, mobile payments, Stephen Scale.

Very soon, seriously ill Jamaicans will be able to stay in bed and use their smartphones to get home delivery of their medication from the pharmacy.

It will even get better when the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) gets connected to the electronic hub, and individuals who leave the hospital, but still need medical attention, can stay at home and get the same attention without having to move a leg.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Jamaica’s Advanced Integrated Systems (AIS) Ltd, Douglas Halsall, says that a new partnership with India’s Graylogic Technologies Ltd could benefit Jamaica’s crime fighting efforts.

“In terms of crime, I believe that their technology can really address that,” Halsall informed the press after announcing the partnership with Graylogic, a Hyderabad-based firm which has been creating innovative, high-quality custom software solutions since 1999.