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KAZAKHSTAN:
telecommunications for telemedicine
Karine Kotoyants
General Director JSC Intel
(Institute of Telecommunications)
[email protected]
KAZAKHSTAN
Geographic:
Healthcare System:
Population - 14819700
Total area- 2724900sq.km
Density – 5,5 people/sq. km
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)
Prerequisites for the development
of telemedicine
•
Geographic and demographic features
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Development of the telecommunication infrastructure
•
Kazakhstan’s Experience in EC IST projects implementation
(DENEMA, TeleInVivo)
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Business interest in the telemedicine projects
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 – 1 750 km
• Satellite Telecommunications
• Digital TV broadcasting
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 distance learning,
telemedicine, electronic commerce through Central Asia Region
• Connecting Central Asia Region to World Information Society
• Testing and adaptation telematics products through Central Asia
• Supplying hottest information about Central Asia telematics market
Participants: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan
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)
Telemedical Network
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
ONGOING INITIATIVES
Goal:
Creation of the special Medical Informational TV satellite channel
for 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
Medicine-informational TV satellite project
Satellite
KATELCO
National Centre
for problem of
Healthy lifestyle
development
TV receiver
TV receiver
Internet
Modem
Computer Television
Computer Television
Schools and Medical Institutions
Questions?
Institute of Telecommunications
Dr. Karine Kotoyants
Phone: +7-3272-582500
Fax: +7-3272-542360
E-mail: [email protected]