OPTIMIZATION OF MEDICAL CARE IN REGIONAL HEALTH CARE: PERSPECTIVES AND BARRIERS
- Authors: Krom I.L.1, Erugina M.V.1, Yeremina M.G.2, Sapogova M.3, Orlova M.M.4, Lipchanskaya T.P.1, Vlasova M.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Saratov State Medical University named after V.I. Razumovsky
- Razumovsky Saratov State Medical University
- Saratov State Medical University Health Organization and Public Health Department (the courses of Law and History of Medicine)
- Saratov National Research State University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://rjsocmed.com/1728-2810/article/view/252064
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/socm252064
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The perspectives of Russian health care in the transition to personalized medicine are realized in the formation of an innovative digital health care system. Forming with the use of digital technologies the accessibility of health care provides enormous social advantages in regional conditions and assumes a qualitatively new level of regional health care system.
The problems of the Covid-19 pandemic, requiring isolation, quarantine and social distancing and characterized by the formation of trends of social «atomization», accelerated the dependence on digital health, and served as a «catalyst for the development and implementation of a wide range of remote monitoring technologies in health care delivery». However, the digitalization process is «objectively slow» in Russia. The research establishes a high differentiation of digitalization of regional health systems in the Russian Federation.
The implementation in regional health care of digital technologies, which have a high potential for improving the efficiency of the health system, is limited by institutional barriers.
The article presents a typology of institutional barriers to the digitalization of the regional health system.
Federal level:
- legal barriers,
- organizational and managerial (logistical) and technological barriers.
Regional level:
- Financial barriers.
Level of medical organizations and users (medical staff and patients):
- behavioral barriers,
- organizational and managerial (logistic) and technological barriers.
Modern healthcare is experiencing large-scale digital technology inclusion, which can radically change the healthcare system by determining the accessibility and quality of medical care. However, the provision of cost-effective and quality health care initiated by the regional health care digitalization process is limited by institutional barriers at the federal, regional, medical organization and user levels.
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Irina L. Krom
Saratov State Medical University named after V.I. Razumovsky
Author for correspondence.
Email: irina.crom@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1355-5163
SPIN-code: 4854-1094
Russian Federation, Saratov
Marina V. Erugina
Saratov State Medical University named after V.I. Razumovsky
Email: lab48@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4253-5313
SPIN-code: 7016-3160
Russian Federation, Saratov
Maria G. Yeremina
Razumovsky Saratov State Medical University
Email: 913693@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9752-1352
SPIN-code: 9205-0670
Russian Federation, Saratov
Maria Sapogova
Saratov State Medical UniversityHealth Organization and Public Health
Department (the courses of Law and History of Medicine)
Email: maria.sapogova@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6495-9884
Russian Federation
Maria M. Orlova
Saratov National Research State University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky
Email: maria2010@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2340-8343
SPIN-code: 1399-9666
Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of General and Consulting Psychology, Saratov National Research State University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky
Russia, 431012, Saratov, 112 B. Kazachya StTatiyana P. Lipchanskaya
Saratov State Medical University named after V.I. Razumovsky
Email: tatyanalp@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7755-1834
SPIN-code: 5698-6429
Russian Federation, Saratov
Marina V. Vlasova
Email: vmv-22@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5813-4154
SPIN-code: 4939-6247
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