News Digest 14.02.2024 — 16.02.2024
Regulators
Putin instructed to launch a national project on new medical technologies and expand the network of National Medical Research Centers
Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to launch a national project to develop modern health-saving technologies by the end of the year. In his opinion, this will allow domestic healthcare to ensure technological sovereignty.
“I really look forward to participating in this big, serious work of our medical and scientific community,” Putin said, speaking on February 14 at the Forum of Future Technologies.
Market news
The Ministry of Health is preparing regional recommendations for the purchase of medical equipment with artificial intelligence
The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation has published methodological recommendations for constituent entities of the Russian Federation on the use of federal budget funds for the acquisition, implementation and maintenance of solutions in the field of artificial intelligence. The list of priority products for implementation includes services for analyzing medical imaging data and electronic medical records. In 2023, the regions purchased such medical products for 450 million rubles, and in 2024 the Ministry of Health plans to triple the amount of products.
Rosstat reported an increase in prices for medicines and medical products
In January, prices for drugs not included in the Vital and Essential Drugs List increased by 1.9%. There was also a noticeable increase in prices for drugs from the Vital and Essential Drugs List and medical products. All medicines and medical products have become more expensive, except for disposable syringes. Sinupret became the most expensive - an increase of 6.3%.
Source: https://pharmvestnik.ru/content/news/Rosstat-soobshil-o-roste-cen-na-lekarstva-v-yanvare-na-1-9.html
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Moscow will provide free medical artificial intelligence services to various regions
Moscow began sharing computer vision technology with all medical organizations in the country. Artificial intelligence (AI) services in the capital can be used free of charge by those who wish to do so, the mayor's office press service reported on February 15.
"Our colleagues from other regions will be able to use the artificial intelligence algorithms used in Moscow to characterize radiation studies. This will make it possible to quickly and accurately detect signs of various diseases on medical images, which is a daily practice for radiologists It is undoubtedly a good help," said the capital's mayor, Sergey Sobyanin.
In Moscow, they created the first open data set for training AI to identify brain pathologies
Specialists from the Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine of the Moscow Department of Health have created the first dataset (open data set) on computed tomography of the brain. It includes 800 CT studies, additional clinical and technical information, the press service of the capital’s mayor’s office reported on February 16.
It is planned that such a data set will be useful to companies that develop systems for automatic analysis of computer tomograms to determine skull fractures, intracranial hemorrhages, and assess the type by location and their multiplicity.
All open datasets are published on the mosmed.ai platform. networks to search for signs of pathologies of the brain, chest organs and other anatomical areas.
According to the Moscow City Hall, neural networks in the capital’s healthcare are already operating in 27 clinical areas. 10.5 million images.
At the end of 2023, all adult clinics in Moscow implemented a neural network with a diagnosis prompt. service efficiency reaches 87%.
New registered medical devices
We publish a list of new medical devices registered from 02/09/2024 to 02/16/2024
Link to the list: [see. table in attachment]
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