The Ministry of Health and "Yandex" are preparing a bill on the legalization of medical Internet services
In the next couple of weeks , Yandex, together with the Ministry of Health, will start working on a bill on so-called telemedicine. This will create a legal framework for the use of IT in healthcare. February 29, the Ministry of Health posted a notice about the beginning of the development of the bill on regulation.gov.ru.
“We consider important the development and approval of a unified standard of storage and a protocol for the exchange of health data. This is an important condition for the development of telemedicine in Russia, ”the general director of Yandex in Russia, Alexander Shulgin, told Kommersant.
The patient should be able to electronically provide consent to access and processing of information about health, said Mr. Shulgin. According to him, it is important to ensure patient access to the electronic data of the medical card and the resolution of the issues of patient and physician identification in the provision of telemedicine services.
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In addition, as of July 1, 2016, electronic forms of documents — prescriptions for medicines and disability lists — can be introduced in the field of healthcare, follows from the draft amendments to the laws “On Circulation of Medicines” and “On the Principles of Citizens Health Protection in the Russian Federation”. According to the bill published by the Ministry of Health, an exception will be made for narcotic and psychotropic substances - such recipes will not be allowed in electronic form, Kommersant reports .
Doctors using information technology will be able to remotely determine blood sugar, measure blood pressure, diagnose diseases of the breast. According to the analytical company IHS , the number of online patients from 344 thousand in 2012 will increase to 7.1 million by 2018, and the volume of the global market for online medicine will increase to $ 3.5 billion. Its average annual growth will be 67%.
The global development of telemedicine technologies will allow states to save significant financial resources in the health sector in the future, according to a report by the British research company GBI Research . Authorities will be able to provide important health services to people in rural areas and low-income groups.
Experts note that the growth of the telemedicine market is due to the accelerated pace of development of mobile technologies and applications, the need to reduce costs in healthcare.
Since 2014, doctors in Moscow have been issuing electronic prescriptions. However, so far these doctors are a minority, and thus only recipes for drugs for privileged categories of the population are drawn up. According to this prescription, the drugs are free, so patients themselves need to arrange it, says Stanislav Sazhin, co-founder of Doctor at Work .
“Now the doctors are not motivated to write electronic prescriptions, since the patient can buy any non-narcotic prescription drug at any pharmacy without a prescription,” argues Mr. Sazhin. In his opinion, the problem can be solved by legislative prohibition of sales of prescription drugs without a prescription and sanctions for those who sold, up to criminal punishment, as is practiced in Western countries. “Then in electronic prescriptions as a way to monitor and regulate the market for drugs, there will be a sense,” he explains.
And without these measures, the situation will not change, Stanislav Sazhin summarizes.
“We consider important the development and approval of a unified standard of storage and a protocol for the exchange of health data. This is an important condition for the development of telemedicine in Russia, ”the general director of Yandex in Russia, Alexander Shulgin, told Kommersant.
The patient should be able to electronically provide consent to access and processing of information about health, said Mr. Shulgin. According to him, it is important to ensure patient access to the electronic data of the medical card and the resolution of the issues of patient and physician identification in the provision of telemedicine services.
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In addition, as of July 1, 2016, electronic forms of documents — prescriptions for medicines and disability lists — can be introduced in the field of healthcare, follows from the draft amendments to the laws “On Circulation of Medicines” and “On the Principles of Citizens Health Protection in the Russian Federation”. According to the bill published by the Ministry of Health, an exception will be made for narcotic and psychotropic substances - such recipes will not be allowed in electronic form, Kommersant reports .
Doctors using information technology will be able to remotely determine blood sugar, measure blood pressure, diagnose diseases of the breast. According to the analytical company IHS , the number of online patients from 344 thousand in 2012 will increase to 7.1 million by 2018, and the volume of the global market for online medicine will increase to $ 3.5 billion. Its average annual growth will be 67%.
The global development of telemedicine technologies will allow states to save significant financial resources in the health sector in the future, according to a report by the British research company GBI Research . Authorities will be able to provide important health services to people in rural areas and low-income groups.
Experts note that the growth of the telemedicine market is due to the accelerated pace of development of mobile technologies and applications, the need to reduce costs in healthcare.
Since 2014, doctors in Moscow have been issuing electronic prescriptions. However, so far these doctors are a minority, and thus only recipes for drugs for privileged categories of the population are drawn up. According to this prescription, the drugs are free, so patients themselves need to arrange it, says Stanislav Sazhin, co-founder of Doctor at Work .
“Now the doctors are not motivated to write electronic prescriptions, since the patient can buy any non-narcotic prescription drug at any pharmacy without a prescription,” argues Mr. Sazhin. In his opinion, the problem can be solved by legislative prohibition of sales of prescription drugs without a prescription and sanctions for those who sold, up to criminal punishment, as is practiced in Western countries. “Then in electronic prescriptions as a way to monitor and regulate the market for drugs, there will be a sense,” he explains.
And without these measures, the situation will not change, Stanislav Sazhin summarizes.
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