Informational Internet-systems in Ukrainian healthcare problems and perspectives

Today can be noticed the rash development of medicine and pharmacy. Nowadays appears the necessity of modernizations in systems of medical and pharmaceutical information of the post-USSR countries because of the wide range of diseases, methodic of treatment and quantity of available drugs on the markets. Existing systems in modern circumstances, in conditions of limited labor and financial resources, and large implantation of evidence-base medicine, often can't effectively satisfy the requirements of population and health professionals in medical and pharmaceutical information. The work was based on the study of Ukrainian project Doctor.UA. Introducing of Doctor.UA is scheduled in several stages. First of all in January, 2003 was opened four-years test project, which was the part of corporative site of the company (http://apteka-doctor.com). It was named Pre-Doctor.UA and it in simplified form modeled Doctor.UA. During first decade of January, 2007 the results of activity of Pre-Doctor.UA were drew up. For deciding given tasks was analyzed following information: statistics systems, usability-testing, interviewing the visitors. In 2006, 97% of interviewed visitors (n=300) positively appreciate the idea of launching Doctor.UA. As a result of conducted analysis of activity of Pre-Doctor.UA was stated the necessity of large-scale implantation of Doctor.UA, that is planned to be done during 2007-2009 (in 3 stages). Internet-systems of medical and pharmaceutical information proved their practicability of using in post-USSR countries. In this region such systems effectively solve the main tasks, satisfy requirements of visitors and have a significant popularity.