Primorsky Krai is situated on the Far East of
Russia. The area is about 168 000 km2 , population is about 2 300
000 people, the territory is 900 km from the North to the South and about 600
km from the West to the East.
Administrative center
of the Primorsky Krai is city Vladivostok. The main part of the population (42
%) lives in 3 cities: Vladivostok, Ussuriisk, Nakhodka.
Because of the significant sizes of territory of Primorsky Krai in
far distance places public health services may be limited. They can be very
expensive because of the use of air transportation of patients from northern
regions to Vladivostok hospitals.
In the regional program of support of low income people of the
population and also with the purpose of improvement of medical services for the
inhabitants of Primorsky Krai the Far-Eastern Medical Association has an
intention to create "Regional
information service of the social care " within the project Telemedicine. For the organization of
such service the foreign investors, medical institutions of Primorsky Krai,
commercial firms are involved.
The main attention in the business - plan
offered to consideration is devoted to creation of an information
infrastructure, enabling to use in practical medicine (either in usual
circumstances, or in extraordinary ones) modern computer and information
technologies, including the Telemedicine.
Regional information service of the social care
will work under the direction of Health Department of Administration of
Primorsky Krai, Far-Eastern Medical Association and is created on the basis of
Regional Center for Disaster Medicine, Emergency and Ambulance care. Regional
information service of the social care of the population is legally created in
the form of noncommercial (non profit) organization.
