The informatization of the healthcare system in the Vitebsk region will be completed by the end of the year
The creation of a unified information block for the regional healthcare system has been underway for several years. Currently, all organizations have automated workstations for registration desks, emergency departments, doctors, specialists of the laboratory and diagnostic complex, and statistics; local area networks have been organized. An automated information system "General Practitioner" is functioning in medical outpatient clinics and district hospitals. Software and hardware complexes ensuring the operation of operational departments for receiving calls are working at ambulance and emergency medical stations. Electronic accounting and monitoring of patients at high risk of acute coronary syndrome, patients with diabetes mellitus, and cancer patients have been organized.
A Medical Data Processing Center for the region's population is operating at the Vitebsk Regional Diagnostic Center, providing access to patients' electronic health records and enabling data exchange with healthcare institutions. Since 2016, departmental electronic document management for all healthcare organizations has been carried out through the National Center for Electronic Services. Also, at the end of last year, an automated information system "electronic prescription," developed by specialists from the IT department of Vitebsk TRUP "Farmatsiya" in collaboration with the automated control systems bureau of the Vitebsk Regional Diagnostic Center, began operating in all regions of the area.
Electronic patient health records have been implemented in Beshenkovichi, Braslav, Verkhnedvinsk, Glubokoe, Lepel, Rossony, Tolochin, Chashniki, Sharkovshchina districts, Vitebsk, Polotsk, Novopolotsk, Orsha, as well as in six regional medical institutions. Special attention is paid to expanding the use of telemedicine technologies. Currently, software and hardware complexes for remote
Yury Derkach also noted that more than 50% of healthcare institutions in the Vitebsk region are connected to fiber-optic networks today, which is the best indicator in the republic.
"In the near future, after connecting all institutions to fiber-optic communication lines, their integration into a unified information space will be fully completed," he emphasized. "The informatization process has allowed specialists of regional centers to control the diagnosis and treatment of residents of the region, regardless of their place of residence, which significantly improves the quality of medical care, allows the industry to promptly respond to the needs of the region's residents in providing inpatient and outpatient medical care, as well as drug supply," concluded Yury Derkach.