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Advancing Telemedicine in Kazakhstan: Technologies & Initiatives

Explore the evolution and impact of telemedicine in Kazakhstan, including infrastructure, projects, and ongoing initiatives. Learn about the development of telecommunication networks, successful projects like DENEMA and TeleInVivo, and current efforts to create a Medical Informational TV satellite channel. For inquiries, contact Dr. Karine Kotoyants at JSC Intel.

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Advancing Telemedicine in Kazakhstan: Technologies & Initiatives

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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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