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during a regional consultation
On April 26, the Rossiya 1 federal TV-channel showed a story in its Vesti news broadcast where specialists from the Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center present current telehealthcare functionality. In this cancer center, provision of telehealthcare consultations has commenced several years ago.
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As far as the Blokhin Center is concerned, YSAR+ has developed and implemented software and hardware systems which ensure provision of remote consultations both in broad and narrow areas of expertise (second and third examinations during implementation of screening programs). Within the framework of implementation of regional programs directed at modernization and implementation of information technologies in several constituent entities of the Russian Federation, YSAR+ has ensured connectivity with the unified data environment of the Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center, in order to obtain remote consultations, to conduct expert councils, and to organize remote participation of the center's leading experts in educational and scientific-and-practical events.
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New telehealthcare technologies are adopted in the center's surgery units as well. Apart from workshops with possibility of transmitting video and audio signals to any place in the world (which have already become a usual thing), the Blokhin Center experts are implementing remote quality control of surgeries performed in specific geographic locations. According to Aleksandr Valeryevich Petrovsky (Executive Director, Russian Oncology Association), 'this technology allows to evaluate quality of surgeries without spending significant amounts of time and money for visits to regions, and, if necessary, to give specific advices'.
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Boris Ivanovich Dolgushin (Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Blokhin Center's Scientific and Research Institute of Clinical and Experimental Radiology) expressed his assurance that 'active usage of telehealthcare technologies, along with a system of other treatment and preventive measures, gives a substantial opportunity of lowering cancer mortality in our country'.