Telemedicine in Uzbekistan Fatima T. Adilova National Coordinator on Telemedicine

Telemedicine System for Emergency Medicine (BHN,Japan;ITU) PSTN - Public Switched Telephone Network ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network ADSL - Assymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

EmergencyTelemedicine System Sheme DICOM stands for Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine

Emergency Telemedicine System Site Map of Republican Scientific Surgery Centre, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Emergency Telemedicine System Site Map of Republican Scientific Centre of Emergency Medicine Tashkent, Uzbekistan

TABLE 1 Health Protection Budget of the Republic of Uzbekistan (% of the total budget)

TABLE 2 Deaths by causes in 1998 (total, %) Diseases groups according to ICD-IX I. Infectious and parasitic diseases IX. Diseases of the digestive system II. Neoplasm’sX. Diseases of the urogenital system III. Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseasesXI. Complications of pregnancy and childbirth IV. Disease of blood and blood forming organXII-XIII. Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue V. Mental disordersXIV. Congenital anomalies VI. Diseases of the nervous system and senseXV. Certain conditions, originating in perinatal period VII. Disease of the circulatory systemXVI. Symptoms and ill-defined conditions VIII. Diseases of the respiratory systemXVII. Accidents, injury and poisoning

TABLE 3 Widely Distributed infectious diseases ( 1998 year, per pop.) 1.Viral hepatitis (including Hepatitis B) 2. All acute intestinal infections4.Chickenpox 3. Influenza 5. Epidemic parotis

TABLE 4 Physicians of different specialties in 1998 (per ) 1. Therapeutists 4. Obstetrician-gynecologist 2. Paediatrists (including neonatologist) 5. Stomalogist 3. Surgeons 6. Sanitary and epidemiology specialists

TABLE 5 Medium-level medical personnel (doctors' assistants and nurses) 1998 year, per pop. 1. Nurses of all medical institutions 2. Midwives 3. Doctor's assistants (feldsher) 4. Laboratory workers 5. Junior nurses to care patients 6. Sanitation doctors' assistants & epidemiologists’ Assistants 7. Rentgen-radiologic technicians