Ministry of Health of the Sverdlovsk Region

2022

There was a failure of IT systems in hospitals in Yekaterinburg. Documents began to be filled out manually

In September 2022, a IT Yekaterinburg failure occurred in the work of hospital systems, as a result of which doctors were forced to fill out some documents manually. As reported TASS in the press service, in Ministry of Health Sverdlovsk region particular, problems were observed in the automated information system "Medical Integrated Registry" (AIS). "Mir" More here

In the Sverdlovsk region, hospitals cannot exchange data for 2 weeks due to a failure in IT equipment

On February 7, 2022, a failure occurred in the medical IT systems of the Sverdlovsk Region, due to which the region's hospitals could not exchange data for two weeks. Moreover, by February 22, the accident continues to be eliminated.

As the head Ministries of Digital Development and Communications of the Sverdlovsk Region Mikhail Ponomarkov clarified, the problem is associated with problems with the network equipment of the digital transformation center. In health care particular, the failure occurred on root crypto routers responsible for information protection and medical secrecy.

Building of the Ministry of Health of the Sverdlovsk

The equipment of the central node of the network failed. Experts have completely replaced it with a new one with the restoration of routing settings. At the moment, the routes in local networks are being configured by hospital administrators - with the coordination of work by the Ministry of Digital and the Ministry of Health of the Sverdlovsk Region. The elimination of all the identified consequences of the failure is expected in the coming days, - said Ponomarkov.

After the accident, the specialists of the Ministry of Digital Industry daily collected hospital data on non-working services: corporate e-mail, regional medical information system (RMIS), emergency notification system, regional systems "MIR" and "ProMed," expert programs for monitoring cancer patients (ONCOR) and pregnant women on dispensary registration. By February 22, 2022, 110 medical institutions in Yekaterinburg, Kamensk-Uralsky, Krasnoturinsk, Pervouralsk, Revda, Serov and other cities reported problems.

According to the Telegram channel "Respublika," at the end of 2021, about 189 million rubles were allocated for maintaining the performance of the medical information and analytical center of the Sverdlovsk region, as well as for measures to protect informatization facilities.^[1]

2020: Appointment as Minister of Health of the Sverdlovsk Region

At the end of July 2020, Andrei Karlov was appointed the new Minister of Health of the Sverdlovsk Region. The former chief physician of the children's hospital No. 9 of Yekaterinburg replaced Andrei Tsvetkov. The governor of the Sverdlovsk region Yevgeny Kuyvashev announced this on his Instagram page. Read more here.

2018

Nuclear Medicine Center Concept Drafts

On September 26, 2018, Rusatom Healthcare announced that the Ministry of Health of the Sverdlovsk Region had prepared draft concepts for the Center for Nuclear Medicine and the corresponding roadmap.

The Center for Nuclear Medicine for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer will be created on the basis of the PET/CT Center of PET-Technologies in Yekaterinburg. The corresponding agreement of intent was signed by the governor of the region Yevgeny Kuyvashev, the general director of Rusatom Healthcare Denis Cherednichenko, the representative of MedInvestGroup Viktor Kharitonin and the rector of UrFU Viktor Koksharov.

Other nuclear enterprises of the Sverdlovsk region with relevant competencies will also take part in the implementation of the project. These are the Institute of Reactor Materials and the Electrochempribor plant.

The implementation of the project will increase the availability of nuclear medicine services for residents of the Sverdlovsk region and nearby regions, raise the quality of diagnostics and treatment to another level, and will also contribute to the development of the scientific potential of the Ural Federal District.

As of September 2018, documents related to the creation of the Center for Nuclear Medicine were considered at a meeting of the working group on the development of nuclear medicine chaired by the first vice-governor of the region, Alexei Orlov.

According to statistics, patients with oncology make up 80% of the total number of patients using nuclear medicine. The use of modern methods of nuclear medicine will improve the quality of diagnosis and care also for cardiovascular, neurological and other diseases. We are entering the finish line on the issue of creating a center for nuclear medicine in the region.

According to the Minister of Health of the Sverdlovsk Region Andrei Tsvetkov, the roadmap for the implementation of the investment project includes six stages.

By the end of 2018, it is planned to complete the installation of a second expert-class PET/CT scanner, begin designing a cyclotron-radiochemical complex and create a production unit with a quality control laboratory FPM 68-gallium-PSMA on the basis of a nuclear medicine center. Also, in the near future, the federal structures will agree on the tariff of compulsory medical insurance for the service "Positron emission tomography with a 68-gallium-PSMA radiopharmaceutical.