ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONALITY OF MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN UKRAINE

Abstract

Over the past five years, Ukraine has seen a slight positive trend in the development of the medical information systems market. It should be noted that this market is risky. The cost of developing modern systems exceeds the economic efficiency of being present in the market, so new developments are rare. Significant obstacles to the informatization of the domestic healthcare system include insufficient funding for medical institutions, lack of understanding among the management of the opportunities offered by high technologies to improve the quality of medical institutions, and insufficient standardization of data and methods of its processing. This study provides a comparative analysis of the structural modules and functionalities of modern medical information systems used in Ukraine. Each of them comes in different configurations, some allow you to choose modules for purchase. But, as a rule, each system has a similar basic set of modules. Most systems are based on a client-server architecture that provides a limited number of functions, mainly the preparation of statistical reports and standardized forms of the Ministry of Health. The analysis revealed a lack of data mining and artificial intelligence in these systems, which would significantly improve their quality. We also did not find any system that had a module for analyzing and predicting the development of chronic diseases and their exacerbations, a module for working with and monitoring patients with diabetes, which we believe are quite important today. Domestically produced medical systems are the most commonly used in Ukraine. Polish and Turkish developers of medical information systems are also interested in the Ukrainian market. However, the cost of implementing these systems is much higher than similar Ukrainian systems.