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YSAR+ develops telehealthcare in the Far East region

Terney district, one of the most remote districts of the Primorski Region, has been included in the project for development of telehealthcare in the Primorski Region.

According to Yuri Selyutin, Director of the Primorski Regional Pediatric Clinical Tuberculosis Hospital, 'District specialists ask our doctors for consulting assistance in cases when diagnosis formulation poses difficulties. The system of telehealthcare technologies allows doctors from district hospitals and from Vladivostok to view simultaneously on their monitors data related to tomography examinations, to analyze cases, and to discuss treatment strategies'.

On the basis of conducted telehealthcare consultations, tuberculosis diagnosis was ruled out for 2 children, outpatient treatment was prescribed for 2 minor patients with neighborhood physician supervision, 1 child will be referred to inpatient treatment, and 1 more child will be referred to personal consultation and examination at the Regional Pediatric Phthisiology Consulting Center.

Besides, at the end of telecommunication session, Primorski Region doctors were contacted by the Saint-Petersburg Scientific and Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology. The child patient undergoing treatment in the Primorski Regional Pediatric Clinical Tuberculosis Hospital was consulted online by Professor Alexander Mushkin.

In June 2014, YSAR+ created and began to develop the telehealthcare network for the Primorski Pediatric Tuberculosis Hospital. Stage by stage and on the basis of the JEMYS Telehealthcare software and hardware systems, a unified information network has been created, which allows to transfer data related to tomography examinations and high-quality X-Ray images via a secure communication channel.

Svetlana Osina (Phthisiology Specialist, pediatric hospital) says: 'As a result, pediatric and phthisiology specialists have obtained an opportunity to consult highly-qualified colleagues from the Regional Pediatric Phthisiology Consulting Center in difficult cases, while children and their parents in many cases do not have to go to Vladivostok for the purpose of diagnosis formulation, the disease being detected at earlier stages'.

By December of the current year, doctors from the pediatric tuberculosis hospital have already conducted 1157 telehealthcare consultations. On the whole, the system proved to be highly efficient. In particular, the number of consultations conducted by phthisiology specialists for children and teenagers from the region's districts has increased by 31%, the number of tuberculosis cases detected at early stages increasing by 17,5%. The duration of diagnostic work required for prescription of anti-tuberculosis treatment has been halved. And, thanks to the timeliness of diagnostic work, the duration of patient stay in hospital facilities has been shortened by an average of 10-15 days.

Pavel Serebryakov, Vice-Governor, noted that 'almost 90% of the Primorski Region's medical institutions have implemented or are in the process of implementation of modern IT technologies. This includes electronic scheduling of doctor visits, electronic health records, electronic system of monitoring pharmaceuticals for population groups entitled to receipt of aid, etc. Several projects are being implemented in the region, which are related to provision of opportunity for conducting remote consultations and transfer of medical data, and which are aimed at increasing accessibility and raising qualtiy of medical assistance. This work will be continued'.

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