The regional Telemedicine resource center of the Donetsk region in the
Eastern part of Ukraine is located at the Institute for Research and
Development in Traumatology and Orthopaedics at the Regional Trauma
Hospital in Donetsk and is run by Dr. Anton Vladzymyrskyy.
Telemedicine in the Donetsk Region
Nowdays Donetsk Region has unique experience and decisions for Ukrainian telemedicine. Its provided scientific, practical, organizational, technical, medical, economic, methodical decisions and information for another telemedical and e-health orgnisation.
First telemedical work-outs appeared in Donetsk Region in 1970ies. It was telemetry of physiological parameters for miners. Today telemedicine is basically developed as teleconsultations and distant learning.
1999 in Donetsk State Medical University we had started first ukrainian theoretical researches and investigations in telemedicine. After a few months we had published book “Introduction to Telemedicine” (full text russian version).
During next three years after this we studied the world experience of the use of telemedicine for the health care service, elaborated and implemented our own systems, evaluated the effectiveness of teleconsultations and analyzed the data.
On the 25th of January, 2000 we carried out our first teleconsultation: professor M. Nerlich from Regensburg (Germany) consulted the patient with serious pelvis trauma from Donetsk (Ukraine). Since that time we have done about 200 teleconsultations in 15 medical specialtity.
In 2001 in Donetsk R&D Institute of
Traumatology and Orthopedics was founded Department of Informatics and
Telemedicine – first special telemedical unit in Ukraine. The main
achievments:
- development of theoretical bases of telemedicine for Ukraine;
- ukrainian-russian telemedical glossary;
- development of indicies for teleconsultations;
- improvement teleconsultations in daily clinical practice;
- 200 teleconsultations, 15 medical speciality, partnership with M.D.s and patients from 32 countries;
- special partnership with Norwegian Telemedical Center, AFCEA (1999-2000), ISFT (2004), CAOS-India, Med-E-Tel etc.
- creation of Internet based system for distant education “TeleTrauma”;
- scientific investigation and researches in theory of telemedicine, in using of teleconsultations in treatment of polytrauma, joints diseases etc, economical and mathematical problems of telemedicine, equipment testing, laws and ethics etc.
- dissertation “Treatment of polytrauma on pre-hospital and in-hospital stages with using of the telemedical systems”;
- web-design and content-managering of www “Telemedicine in Ukraine” (www.telemed.org.ua);
- about 30 journals’ articles, 3 books (“Telemedicine: Glossary”, 2001, “Telemedicine”, 2002, “Clinical Teleconsultations: Manual for Doctors”, 2003).
In 2003 we was found "Ukrainian Journal of Telemedicine and Medical Telematics".
In 2004 was began creation of the telemedical network of Donetsk Region. We hope that this network should become the prototype for all country.
In 2005 a Telemedical Work Station in Volnovakha (rural area) and
Gorlovka (small town) have been opened and carried out 10
teleconsultations, including 3 urgent with using of mobile phones,
MMS/SMS and e-mail.
GOOD/BEST PRACTICE MODELS
First in Ukraine Good/Best Practice Models for telemedicine and eHealth were created in Dep.of Informatics and Telemedicine of DRDITO (head – dr.A.Vladzymyrskyy, avv@telemed.org.ua). This Models were recognised by ISfTeH.
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