Background: Coronavirus infection (COVID-19) spreading took place in the Russian Federation in recent 10 months. Russia has a reliable and effective governmental public health infrastructure that worked at an advanced level to control the situation since the first day of receiving reports about pneumonia ofunknown etiology cases in December 2019 and the registration of the first COVID-19 cases in Wuhan, China, in January 2020. Several measures were applied (administrative, organizational, technical, sanitary, and hygiene), nevertheless, creating an adequate response to the COVID-19 pandemic was 15 a challenge for the Russian national public health authorities. Areas covered: We used official information of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor), the Russian Federation Government, and Moscow Government, and the official World Health Organization (WHO); the analysis was conducted between 1 December 2019 and 31 March 2020. Expert opinion: Rospotrebnadzor implemented a set of measures which comprised of three stages: 1. Stage 1 Preventive and sanitary measures; 2. Stage 2 Organizational and technical measures; 3. Stage 3 Organizational and preventive measures.

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Nowadays, the Public Health systemisundergoing a significant digital transformation. Various medical technologies basing on artificial intelligence are being implemented. Such segment of public health as telemedicine is actively developing.The pandemic of COVID-19 was an important factor, which has initiated the progress of telemedical technologies to rationalize the work of medical staff and change the medical algorithm strategy of patients monitoring. In order to maintain a high level of medical care provided in the conditions of “remote medicine” and to obtain satisfactory treatment outcomes, it is necessary to ensure that patients and medical staff are fully aware of various changes, both legislative and technological in the telemedicine segment.The paper presents an overview of regulatory documents and measures taken by the Ministry of Health of Russia for the introduction of telemedicine technologies, and also describes the contribution of Sechenov University in the promotion of elemedicine communications using fun learning techniques that help medical professionals to form “digital thinking” and create public confidence in digital healthcare. The new functionality will improve the efficiency of planning and accounting for the training of medical workers in accordance with changes in the digital healthcare ecosystem.

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