SOLUTIONS
The creation of an Arctic Medical Centre of federal importance in Arkhangelsk and a consortium of organizations for the development of telemedicine in Russia
“The mission of the federal centre [Arctic Medical Centre of federal importance in Arkhangelsk] will be to develop and implement new health saving technologies in the harsh climatic and eco-hygienic conditions of the Arctic, study factors related to premature ageing, increased morbidity, and mortality among those living in the Arctic regions, train highly qualified medical personnel with an eye to the specifics of diseases and provision of medical care in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation, ensure high living standards, including for small indigenous peoples, through the development of basic and applied science. [...] Telemedical technology is definitely the future, taking into account the low population density and logistical peculiarities in the constituent entities of the Arctic zone,” Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Arkhangelsk Region Olesya Starzhinskaya.
“We have created a telemedicine consortium, which looks forward to working together with the Arctic Medical Consortium (National Arctic Research and Education Consortium, – Ed. note) and will include all the leading developers and manufacturers of telemedical solutions and technologies, equipment and other things. [...] There are three problems to be solved here: ensuring accessibility, ensuring a high-quality standard, and just absolutely complete collection of information for all analytical decisions to be made by the federal scientific centre of Arctic medicine,” Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Scientific and Production Association National Telemedicine Agency and ATB Electronics Mikhail Natenzon.
“We need to advantage of joint efforts with other regions to make the direction taken in the training and science more effective,” Rector of the Northern State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Lyubov Gorbatova.
Introducing digital solutions in healthcare, creating a Sanitary and Epidemiological Well-being of the Population in the Arctic portal
“The most promising tools for assessing and analysing the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population include: automating data collection and analysis processes, introducing data analysis methods using geographic information systems (GIS) methodology, applying artificial intelligence to analyse large volumes of data on factors of public health and habitat. [...] In order to solve these problems in the context of the Russian Arctic, a task was set to create and develop a geo-information portal, the Sanitary and Epidemiological Well-being of the Population in the Russian Arctic portal. [...] The geoportal concept is based on a GIS geoinformation system, a database server, and an array of information on environmental factors, public health, and socio-economic and health and demographic indicators, using information and analytical tools and spatial data processing methods,” Deputy Director for Research at the North-West Research Centre for Hygiene and Public Health of Rospotrebnadzor Roman Buzinov.
“Rural health posts are unable to provide the 21 necessary population screening positions locally, while mobile complexes equipped with complete heavy medical equipment solve this task automatically and deliver the data to geoportals, to the federal scientific centre for Arctic medicine,” Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Scientific and Production Association National Telemedicine Agency and ATB Electronics Mikhail Natenzon.
“A unique patient identifier, such as the SNILS, should be introduced into Russian medical information systems. It would allow for accurate and efficient linking of data from different databases and registers,” Head of the International Centre of Scientific Competence at Northern State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Alexander Kudryavtsev.
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