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Telemedicine Vladimir Putin's instructions also

Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 5:33 am
Included the modernization of the medical industry. The development of telemedicine was discussed on November 24 at the Internet + Medicine Forum. During the event, Leonid Levin, a member of the IRI Council and Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, said that the bill would be adopted before the end of the spring session, and the Council for Economic Development and Innovation under the President of the Russian Federation included the bill on telemedicine in the priority list of bills.

In early December, as part of his address to the Federal Assembly, russia whatsapp number list Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the need to connect all hospitals and clinics in the country to high-speed Internet within the next two years.

"This will allow doctors even in a remote city or village to use telemedicine capabilities and quickly receive consultations from colleagues in regional and federal clinics," the Russian president emphasized. The IRI reported that they will monitor the implementation of the Russian President's order on the development of telemedicine.


German Klimenko
Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Council of the IRI
It is important that the President in his Address noted the importance of developing high-tech medicine in our country and spoke separately about the transition to telemedicine. After the adoption of the relevant law, which may be considered already at the spring session of the State Duma, the provision of remote medical services using information technology will finally enter the legal framework
It is planned that in 2017 telemedicine – the provision of medical services remotely, using information and communication technologies – will be legalized, and already in the first month of winter, compulsory medical insurance tariffs for such services will be approved.

New functions have also appeared in Yandex.Health. After the law is passed, doctors will be able to give consultations to patients via video communication through the application. It is worth noting that the head of the company, Arkady Volozh, noted back then, at the Internet Economy forum in 2015, that although the industry is conservative, there is a desire to change for the better with the help of Internet technologies. According to him, the main problem with the introduction of technologies in medicine is legislation.

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