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On April 9, a coordination meeting was held in the Samara Regional Clinical Oncologic dispensary with participation of CJSC YSAR+, the meeting being attended by directors of cancer-prevention institutions of the Privolzhski Federal District and held under auspices of the Association of Russian Cancer Specilists. The meeting was also attended by leading specialists working in the area of organization of cancer assistance and coming from Russia's largest medical institutions. Such a form of event organization turned out to be efficient for the purpose of close cooperation and sharing of experience between the regions of the Russian Federation. The principal topic of the coordination meeting was 'The Present and Future of Perfection of IT Infrastructure in Cancer-Prevention Institutions of the Privolzhski Federal District'.

Among the participants of the meeting were also R. Sh. Khasanov (Chief Off-Staff Cancer Specialist of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation in the Privolzhski Federal District and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan), A. V. Petrovski (Executive Director of the Association of Russian Cancer Specialists), M. V. Pirogov (Professor of the Department of Economics and Social Management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration), leading specialists from the Russian Center of Information Technologies and Cancer Epidemiology Investigations at the Moscow Scientific and Research Institute for Cancer Studies named after P. A. Gertsen, V. M. Merabishvili (Head of the Department of  Cancer Prevention Measures at the Scientific and Research Institute for Cancer Studies named after N. N. Petrov and the Saint-Petersburg Public Register of Cancer Patients), and many others.

Within the framework of the coordination meeting of cancer specialists from the Privolzhski Federal District, issues were raised concerning the role of IT infrastructure in perfection of cancer assistance rendered to the population, the state of the system of public registers of cancer patients in the Privolzhski Federal District and in the Russian Federation. Reports were presented by heads of cancer-prevention institutions from all constituent entities of the Privolzhski Federal District, these reports concerning the present and the future of perfecting IT infrastructure in cancer-prevention agencies.

During the event, Andrey Yevguenievich Orlov (Director of the Samara Regional Clinical Oncologic dispensary (State Budgetary Healthcare Institution) and Chief Off-Staff Cancer Specialist of the Ministry of Health of the Samara Region) presented the current and next-generation models of the tele-healthcare consultation system for the Samara Region built on the basis of the JEMYS Tele-healthcare system, and gave the participants of the meeting detailed information on the possibilities of practical, clinical, educational and scientific application of the new software service titled JEMYS SDRS-MS (System of Descriptions, Recommendations and Statistics for Mammography Screening).