CIS member states shared their experience in using mobile medical complexes

A thematic meeting of the CIS Network of Institutes for Public Health and Healthcare Digital Transformation, dedicated to digital complexes’ usage for on-site medical examinations and medicines screening, was held at RIH on April 24, 2024. During the event, experts shared their experience, best practices and growth points for various aspects of healthcare organization.

Representatives of the National Medical Research Center for Therapy and Preventive Medicine of the Russian Ministry of Health presented a complex of mobile medical diagnostics, which was developed jointly with medical diagnostic company “Polymed prof”. Car-based hardware and software complex includes the most sophisticated portable devices: X-ray, ultrasound, mammography machine, electrocardiograph, intraocular pressure measuring device. It can also be equipped with express tests for rapid detection of communicable diseases common in the country of operation. With the help of mobile complex, it is possible to provide medical services to residents of villages and towns outside medical institutions.

In 2023, almost 2.5 million residents passed the first stage of medical examination in mobile medical complexes, said Lyubov Drozdova, Head of the polyclinic therapy laboratory at the NMIC TPM of the Russian Ministry of Health. 22.2% of this number are residents of villages and hamlets.

“All portable medical equipment is integrated into a specialized IT-platform, which provides obtained data processing with the possibility of remote advisory support from leading medical experts of the NMIC for Therapy and Preventive Medicine”, said Alexey Altynbayev, co-founder of “Polymed prof”.

Roman Galeev, Director of the Yaroslavl branch of Information and Methodological Center for Expertise, Accounting and Analysis of Medicinal Products Circulation of Roszdravnadzor, shared experience in using express methods for quality control of medicines on the basis of mobile laboratories. He noted that state quality control of medicines in circulation is one of the main activities of any state.

In 2008, Roszdravnadzor proposed to introduce the use of express methods for screening the quality of medicines, and then the targeted use of destructive methods for those medicines that do not withstand testing by express methods. This approach is used in many economically developed countries of the world in context of increasing the volume of controlled series within the frames of state control while maintaining a reasonable amount of funding.

Express laboratory developed by Roszdravnadzor can determine the quality of medicines within minutes without opening the package. Such result is achieved due to a special device – NIR-analyzer, which determines drug composition using infrared radiation.

Tommy Ingebretsen, Regional Manager of “Normeka International AS”, and Somoni Masud, Manager of Mobile Multifunctional Clinic No. 2, spoke from the Republic of Tajikistan and shared their experience in using mobile medical complexes for medical examinations and treatment of population in remote settlements.

Mobile clinics are large-sized vehicles. Inside diagnostic mobile medical complexes, one can get a consultation with a family doctor, gynecologist, urologist, ophthalmologist, otolaryngologist, cardiologist, gastroenterologist, undergo ultrasound and X-ray, computer tomography and mammography. Medical specialists take and conduct laboratory tests, including biochemical and general blood tests, general urine analysis, virological tests, etc. Minor surgeries are also available.

Since 2022 in all 5 clinics more than 120 thousand patients have been examined and almost 350 thousand consultations have been carried out, including ultrasound, CT, mammography X-ray and laboratory tests.

Earlier in April, at the third meeting of the CIS Network of Institutes for Public Health and Healthcare Digital Transformation the need for continuous prevention of cardiovascular diseases was discussed. Reports from Armenia, Belarus, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan on implementation of state strategies in the field of public health were heard. Daria Khalturina, Head of RIH Department of Risk Factor Prevention and Health Communication Technologies, emphasized the importance of teamwork in diseases control.