Medical doctors of Moscow polyclinics performed 600 thousand telemedicine consultations

Telemedicine service operates in all polyclinics in Moscow. Since February 2022, medical doctors have performed 600 thousand consultations. 380 thousand sufferers have already used them. Now telemedicine consultations can be found to residents with acute respiratory viral infections and confirmed COVID-19, who might be handled at house. This was introduced by Anastasia Rakova, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Social Improvement.

You will get a telemedicine session utilizing the applying “EMIAS.Telemedicine”. To entry the service, you will have a login and password — they may come to the affected person by SMS in case of affirmation of the analysis of SARS or COVID-19 instantly after a go to to the polyclinic or an preliminary audio session with a physician.

With the assistance of audio or video communication, medical doctors analyze the situation of sufferers, establish signs indicating enchancment or deterioration of the situation, inform what drugs must be taken, reply the affected person’s questions, give suggestions. If crucial, he’s invited and booked for a face-to-face appointment. All knowledge recorded by the specialist within the audio protocol in the course of the telemedicine session is mirrored within the digital medical document. This info is out there to the medical doctors of the polyclinic and ambulance, and the affected person can get acquainted with it within the medical card on mos.ru and within the cell software “EMIAS.INFO”.

Just lately, a telemedicine service has been launched into the work of all outpatient oncological care facilities (CAOP), with the assistance of which oncologists and hematologists of those medical establishments can remotely prolong digital prescriptions for a lot of drugs beforehand prescribed to a affected person. Earlier than its launch, it was doable to increase the digital prescription solely at a physician’s appointment. Additionally, because of telemedicine consultations, specialists now inform sufferers concerning the choices of oncoconsiliums. The affected person doesn’t want to go to medical establishments as soon as once more, as well as, the load on specialists has additionally decreased.

Moscow has been digitalizing the healthcare system for greater than 10 years. On the coronary heart of this course of is a single digital platform, which is being developed by the Moscow Social Improvement Advanced and the Info Expertise Division. It offers personalised administration of every affected person in any respect levels — from analysis, therapy and follow-up. Due to the platform, all knowledge on the well being standing of residents are gathered in a single digital circuit and can be found on-line to each medical doctors and sufferers themselves.