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significantly reduce the cost of equip
ping ordinary doctors' offices (therapeutic
rooms and
first aid rooms may disappear altogether);
to speed up and simplify the procedure of many types of medical care for the
population (when, according to many initial consultations, one can not even leave
the house -
this is especially important for seriously ill elderly people) and make the services of European
doctors more accessible.
So, there are three main advantages: speed (mobility), budget savings and a
comprehensive expansion of the scientific and applied medical field, both for doctors and
patients.
At the end of November 2017, the forum
«Investments in Healthcare of the Republic of
Kazakhstan
»
was held, at which the Ministry of Health determined that one trillion tenge was
required to reboot the medical sector. This is an exorbitant amount, the burden of which will
eventually fall on the taxpayers.
The telemedicine alternative will save hundreds of millions by redirecting these funds,
for example, to increase the salary of medical workers. Given that the government of the
country supports an even broader, general program «Digital Kazakhstan
»
, from
its side the
choice between telemedicine and an expensive infrastructure project should be obvious.
Conclusions.
A few years ago, Kazakhstan began to deploy a program to create a
unified telemedicine network, which should include at least all municipal polyclinics and
medical centers, together with medical universities, primarily state institutions. The creation
of information-distance medicine involves 5 stages:
purchase of a server with which you can use satellite communications;
video and audio equipment for operating rooms, intensive care and
laboratory
departments (demonstration of complex, advanced methods for other specialists has always
been the firs
t task for domestic telemedicine);
similar equipment for classrooms in medical universities;
similar equipment in other universities, the departments of which somehow
overlap with the medical field;
creation of a unified information database that allows you
to instantly send any
medical data to any institution registered in the telemedicine network.
In Kazakhstan, partly implemented software (in cooperation with MDS Company)
called DiViSy. This software product was developed by DiViSy Group
- it is one of the main
developers of telemedicine technologies on the market today. The commercial geostationary
telecommunication satellite KazSat-3 is used for data transmission.