The introduction of telemedicine to the villages: the key problem

Not everyone has access to the Internet.

With the introduction of telemedicine in the Ukrainian villages could cause problems because it needed the Internet, and most of the Ukrainian villages is offline.

This is stated in the article “Apostrophe”, which were dealt with that Bank can offer remote villages in the Ukraine.

So, according to experts, today the level of Internet penetration in villages is no more than 25-28%.

“The regional centres, in principle, “Ukrtelecom” has conducted all communications, but dispensaries are not located only in regional centers but also in remote villages, so they still need to hold on communication”, – said the head of the Department of medical informsystem “International scientific-educational center of information technologies and systems” of the NAS of Ukraine Oleksandr Kovalenko.

It should be noted that the reach of communication to villages of small local providers.

“Practically on their own initiative, without any state aid, they form a digital platform,” – said the head of the Internet Association of Ukraine Alexander Fedenko.

He stressed that the government hinders the work of this business.

“The more we get the regulatory aspects associated with the Internet, network security, the less we have left operators-providers, because not all of them can perform some rules (for example, to block Russian social networks – ed.). But big business who is able to comply with these rules, the village did not go, and if there is, then Troubleshooting time can take from one month to one quarter,” he added Fedienko.

Thus, if the presidential bill is adopted, until December 1, the government will “take measures” to provide access of rural healthcare institutions to the network.

© 2017 – 2019, paradox. All rights reserved.