Ukraine launches a medical information system pilot project

The Lemma joint-stock insurance company and the Technological Research Institute of Transcription, Translation and Replication (NTI TTR) have announced the launch of a health care pilot project — the MIC HEIWA software and hardware complex (“heiwa” means “world” in Japanese). According to the insurance company’s press release, the system was first implemented by its designer NTI TTR and partners at one of Ukraine’s hospitals as part of a new approach based on introducing new technological and financial instruments, including insurance, into the health care sector. The introduction of MIC HEIWA is aimed at computerizing the processes of diagnosing, treatment, administration and logistics at medical establishments, creating a usable medical data base, and drawing statistical and financial accounts as a price formation basis at medical institutions. “The HEIWA medical information system offers a fundamentally new way of seeing the relationship between medical institutions and individuals; it is an integrated product which, with due account of methods as well as informational and legal instruments, meets the demands of medical institutions and the entire public health system of Ukraine,” says Professor Mykhailo Kuleshov, president of the Technological Research Institute of Transcription, Translation and Replication, member of the European Academy of natural Sciences. Project developers believe that this kind of a medical information system may some day unite Ukraine’s medical establishments into a single medical information space.