1. Development of telemedicine in KAZAKHSTAN
Karine Kotoyants
General Director JSC Intel
(Institute of Telecommunications)

2. KAZAKHSTAN Geographic: Healthcare System: Population - 14819700
Total area sq.km
Density – 5,5 people/sq. km
Healthcare System:
Total Healthcare budget - 2% of GDP
(23.8 USD per capita)
State sector policlinics and ambulatories
Private sector policlinics
Pharmacies (98% - private)

3. Prerequisites for the development
of telemedicine
Geographic and demographic features
Development of the telecommunication infrastructure
Kazakhstan’s Experience in EC IST projects implementation
(DENEMA, TeleInVivo, Telesol)
Business interest in the telemedicine projects

4. Telecommunications infrastructure
• About 300 private operators
• All communication channels – channels*km
• Telephony - 14 numbers /100 inhabitants
• Mobile telephony - 5,4 phones / 100 inhabitants
• Internet - 4 users / 100 inhabitants
• Fiber backbone – km,
including TAE (Asia – Europe) – km
• Satellite Telecommunications
• Digital TV broadcasting

5. Kazakhstan in IST projects
DENEMA - Telematics Application Program,
The mission of this project:
creation conditions for establishing and development of direct
contacts between healthcare workers in Central Asian countries
DENEMA was focused on
• Adopting new information technologies in fields of e-learning,
telemedicine, electronic commerce through Central Asia Region
• Connecting Central Asia Region to World Information Society
• Testing and adaptation of the european telematics products
in Central Asia
• Supplying hottest information about Central Asia telematics market
Participants: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan

6. TeleInVivo in Kazakhstan
The aim of this project was to setup a transportable telemedicine workstation for the purposes of remote diagnostics seances via telecommunication channels.
Telemedicine Network includes:
• Almaty Regional Medical Diagnostic and Consulting Centre
• Aral Central Local Hospital (Aral CLH)
• Hospital in Coimbra (Portugal)
• Telecommunication Centre in Almaty (KATELCO)

7. Telemedical Network

8. Results of the IST experience
• Both projects - DENEMA and TeleInvivo were successful
• Real experience in the realization of the telemedicine
projects
• Testing telecommunication ability for telemedicine purpose
• Testing ability of the satellite and ground channels
• Prerequisites for the development of telemedicine
in Central Asia region

9. ONGOING INITIATIVES Goal: Technologies: TV broadcasting Consortia:
Creation of the special Medical Informational TV satellite channel for implementation of healthy lifestyle all over the Kazakhstan
Technologies:
TV broadcasting
Internet applications
Consortia:
Intel
Katelco
Medinform
National Center for Problems of Healthy lifestyle development

10. Medicine-informational TV satellite project

11. Institute of Telecommunications Dr. Karine Kotoyants
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