The prospect of using a workstation by an endocrinologist for telemedicine counseling

Abstract

The article provides a review of legislative acts, scientific articles, conference papers devoted to the problems of clinical use of telemedicine counseling. The official regulations of interactive telemedicine, the portals used for this service, formats, modes, payment methods were in the focus of our research. We analysed several examples of the telehealth services provided in the Russian Federation and abroad. Thus, we managed to identify the factors that, according to expert opinion, limit the widespread implementation of telemedicine counseling in clinical practice. We also gave general evaluation of the prospects of using an endocrinologist's workstation for consulting outpatients with diabetes mellitus for remote "doctor patient" interaction and for clinical case teleconferences, as well as for integration of the formalized protocol, lying in the software basis, into fully functional medical and administrative information systems existing in the medical institution. A short example of the 3-year regular use of a workstation for admission of outpatients with diabetes mellitus in a city polyclinic illustrates the advantages of this method.