Medvedeva E.I., Aleksandrova O.A., Kroshilin S.V. (2022). Telemedicine in modern conditions: The attitude of society and the vector of development. Economic And Social Changes: Facts, Trends, Forecast, 15(3), 200–222. DOI: 10.15838 ...

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Abstract

The intensive development of information technologies and external challenges, primarily the coronavirus pandemic, have caused a revision of attitudes towards telemedicine. The article is devoted to the study of problems concerning the peculiarities of the development of Russian telemedicine, the analysis of existing trends and the possibilities of its application, taking into account the development of communication technologies and the legal field. The study of this issue is connected, on the one hand, with the analysis of modern capabilities of telemedicine technologies and the need for their application in connection with the complex epidemiological situation in a number of regions of Russia, on the other – with the assessment of the level of trust in telemedicine on the part of end users: who, how, when and where can resort to telemedicine services. The object of the research is telemedicine technologies, the subject is the dynamics of perception by the Russian society of new forms of medical services. The authors use a classical approach to the study of the studied problems: at the first stage, they conduct a comprehensive desk study and analyze secondary information, at the second, they collect primary data: on the basis of the developed tools, they conduct an intelligence study of the attitude of Russian society to telemedicine. The uniqueness and novelty of the results are due to the comparison of data concerning the attitude of Russians to telemedicine, obtained before the outbreak of the pandemic, with data obtained at the stage of a significant reduction in the incidence of COVID-19 in regions that have become to a certain extent pilot for the use of telemedicine technologies in primary care in the midst of the epidemic. During data collection and analysis, statistical, mathematical and sociological methods were used, including content analysis to study legal issues of the possibility of using telemedicine technologies. The study revealed the main reasons for Russians' distrust of telemedicine, as well as possible ways and areas of its application in the future to provide medical care to the population. The results obtained can be used to study the application of telemedicine in Russia in the system of training and retraining of medical personnel, as well as by health care organizers, lawyers and other specialists who deal with the application of telemedicine technologies, including at the level of legislative and executive authorities.