Russia May Create Unified Digital Portal for Healthcare Workers
Russian health managers have proposed a nationwide online registry that patients could use to verify doctors’ credentials and accreditations.
Russian authorities may introduce a single digital portal for healthcare workers across the country.
The registry would allow patients to check information about a doctor’s diploma and accreditation.
The National Association of Healthcare Managers proposed creating a unified open portal in Russia to verify medical professionals.
The digital registry is expected to contain minimal but essential information for patients – the specialist’s full name, education details and current accreditation status. Patients would be able to access the resource via an online query or a QR code in the doctor’s profile.
Transparency and Safety
According to the initiative’s authors, establishing a unified registry would minimize the number of dishonest medical practitioners working without proper education and accreditation or with forged documents. Patients could make an informed choice before seeking care. All of these factors would raise the overall safety of medical services.
As Sergey Fedosov, founder of the medical technology platform MedRoket (MedRocket), editor-in-chief of the portal ProDoktorov (AboutDoctors), and chairman of the Committee for Advancing Human-Centered Healthcare at the National Association of Healthcare Managers (NAUZ), added, introducing personal QR codes for doctors’ diplomas would make information as transparent as possible, expose pseudo-specialists and reduce social tension in the provision of medical care.
