Head military-medical department of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Tasks

The main objectives of GVMU are:

• planning of application and development of a system of medical support of Armed Forces;

• organization of construction of health service of Armed Forces;

• implementation of activities for maintenance of combat and mobilization readiness of health service of Armed Forces;

• the organization of a complex of the preventive, medical, improving and rehabilitation actions directed to protection and strengthening of health of the military personnel, persons of civil personnel of Armed Forces, the citizens discharged from military service and members of their families;

• planning and the organization of providing Armed Forces with medical equipment and the property allowed for use in the territory of the Russian Federation;

• implementation of state policy in the field of ensuring sanitary and epidemiologic wellbeing of staff of Armed Forces, other troops, military formations and bodies in the order set by legislative and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation;

• the organization of medical examination, survey and physical examination of citizens at initial setting on military accounting, conscription and selection on military service under the contract (including carrying out necessary analyses).

Subordinated organizations

• Main military clinical hospital of N.N. Burdenko;
• Medical educational and scientific clinical center of P.V. Mandryk;
• The 3rd central military clinical hospital to them A.A. Vishnevsky;
• Medical center of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation;
• Army medical college of S.M. Kirov
• The 736th main center of the state sanitary and epidemiological surveillance Ministry of Defence;
• The 111th main state center of medicolegal and criminalistic examinations Ministry of Defence;
• Main center of military-medical examination Russian Defense Ministry;
• 8 health resorts of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Western, Moscow area, North Caucasian, Sochi, Anapa, Volga, Chita, Far East);
• 2 soldiers of sanatorium (Yalta, Svetlogorsk).

Informatization

Implementation project of telemedicine technologies

According to the results of a meeting in GVMU on the use of telemedicine technologies for the benefit of military medicine which took place in September, 2014 the decision on creation of a pilot zone for testing of telemedicine technologies at the "medical company — army hospital — the central hospital" level was made,the Russian Defense Ministry reported. Pilot section should be developed in the central region.

According to the results of a meeting in which representatives of the profile enterprises of the industry participated, the standard list of the medical equipment for equipment of telemedicine subscriber stations was also defined, the directions of development of ICT are specified and also specific developments for equipment of the military-medical organizations are shown.

The chief of GVMU major general of health service Alexander Fisun said that existence in the civil sector of the solutions connected with implementation of telemedicine information technologies in military medicine removes need of carrying out own developmental works from Management. Already finished software products and the hardware of telemedicine are the most relevant for military medicine, he noted.

The chief of GVMU Alexander Fisun (on a photo on the right) at a meeting on military telemedicine.

Alexander Fisun also reported that at the beginning of September, 2014 on the basis of questioning of the leading medical specialists the standard list of the telecommunication and special medical and diagnostic equipment for carrying out telemedicine consultations at the different levels was made. Besides, the preliminary estimate of finance costs on implementation and development of telemedicine technologies in the central hospitals was carried out.

The next plans for development of military telemedicine in Russia earlier, in July, 2014,the Minister of Defence general Sergey Shoygu reported.

"We this year should begin and, I think, within two-three years to complete creation of a complete system of military telemedicine" — he said during a working trip to troops of the Southern Military District.

According to Shoygu, creation of such system is necessary in order that the medical officers working in remote corners of Russia in case of some difficulties, extreme cases could consult quickly online with the colleagues from the lead medical institutions of Moscow and St. Petersburg.