As noted by Dimitri Piven, the most promising avenue of
Telemedicine in phthisiology is just treatment of osteoarticular tuberculosis.
To date in the Irkutsk region of 600 such patients. Annually with
are detected about 20 people. In the application of telemedicine
Irkutsk medical consultation can be in a short time to diagnose it
disease. Doubles the efficiency of surgical care to patients.




One operation conducted by doctors of Irkutsk Oblast TB
clinic with a tele-consultation, costs 35 asbles. A similar operation,
conducted outside the region, will cost 65 thousand. Besides treatment
patients with telemedical advice will shorten their stay in
hospital clinic twice. The result for the year of the regional tuberculosis
Clinic saves about 291 thousand asbles.

Source: Medvestnik.com