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Development of telemedicine in KAZAKHSTAN Karine Kotoyants General Director JSC Intel

Development of telemedicine in KAZAKHSTAN Karine Kotoyants General Director JSC Intel (Institute of Telecommunications) karin@kit.kz. KAZAKHSTAN. Geographic: Population - 14819700 Total area- 2724900sq.km Density – 5,5 people/sq. km. Healthcare System:

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Development of telemedicine in KAZAKHSTAN Karine Kotoyants General Director JSC Intel

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  1. Development of telemedicine in KAZAKHSTAN Karine Kotoyants General Director JSC Intel (Institute of Telecommunications) karin@kit.kz

  2. KAZAKHSTAN Geographic: Population - 14819700 Total area- 2724900sq.km Density – 5,5 people/sq. km Healthcare System: Total Healthcare budget - 2% of GDP (23.8 USD per capita) State sector - 4133 policlinics and ambulatories Private sector - 642 policlinics Pharmacies - 6000 (98% - private)

  3. Prerequisites for the development of telemedicine • Geographic and demographic features • Development of the telecommunication infrastructure • Kazakhstan’sExperience in EC IST projects implementation • (DENEMA, TeleInVivo, Telesol) • Business interest in the telemedicine projects

  4. Telecommunications infrastructure • • About 300 private operators • • All communication channels – 67 500 000 channels*km • • Telephony - 14 numbers /100 inhabitants • • Mobile telephony - 5,4 phones / 100 inhabitants • • Internet - 4 users / 100 inhabitants • • Fiber backbone – 5 000 km, • including TAE (Asia – Europe) – 1 750 km • • Satellite Telecommunications • • Digital TV broadcasting

  5. Kazakhstan in IST projects DENEMA - Telematics Application Program, 1997-1999 The mission of this project: creation conditions for establishing and development of direct contacts between healthcare workers in Central Asian countries DENEMA was focused on • Adopting new information technologies in fields of e-learning, telemedicine, electronic commerce through Central Asia Region • Connecting Central Asia Region to World Information Society • Testing and adaptation of the european telematics products in Central Asia • Supplying hottest information about Central Asia telematics market Participants: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,Uzbekistan, Tajikistan

  6. TeleInVivo in Kazakhstan The aim of this project was to setup a transportable telemedicine workstation for the purposes of remote diagnostics seances via telecommunication channels. Telemedicine Network includes: • Almaty Regional Medical Diagnostic and Consulting Centre • Aral Central Local Hospital (Aral CLH) • Hospital in Coimbra (Portugal) • Telecommunication Centre in Almaty (KATELCO)

  7. Telemedical Network

  8. Results of the IST experience • Both projects - DENEMA and TeleInvivo were successful • Real experience in the realization of the telemedicine projects • Testing telecommunication ability for telemedicine purpose • Testing ability of the satellite and ground channels • Prerequisites for the development of telemedicine in Central Asia region

  9. ONGOING INITIATIVES • Goal: • Creation of the special Medical Informational TV satellite channelfor implementation of healthy lifestyle all over the Kazakhstan • Technologies: • TV broadcasting • Internet applications • Consortia: • Intel • Katelco • Medinform • National Center for Problems of Healthy lifestyle development

  10. Medicine-informational TV satellite project

  11. Questions? Institute of TelecommunicationsDr. Karine Kotoyants Phone: +7-3272-582500 Fax: +7-3272-542360 E-mail: karin@kit.kz

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