Use of Telemedicine in Pilot Centers within the Perinatal System

Abstract

In the last decade of the twentieth century in many countries rapidly has developed telemedicine. Telemedicine is not a separate discipline within the health system, but a "transfer of information at distance regarding patient's medical care." In the Republic of Moldova telemedicine implementation into perinatal system started in 2009 in four pilot centers: MCRI (level III), CP Hospital no. 1 Chisinau, CP Balti and CP Cahul (level II). Thus the creation and development of this interdisciplinary network of teleconsultation and telediagnostic has followed the improvement of health care services quality and decrease of their costs, increasement of quality of patients life in perinatal system, orienting themselves to consultation of serious neonatal and obstetric cases from level II Perinatal centers. Although it’s on its beginning, telemedicine network in the frame of perinatal sytem has already achieved success. Cooperation between specialists from levels II and III of perinatal care has strengthened, interactive work and multidisciplinary cooperation between obstetricians-gynecologists and radiologists, imagists have strenghtened also.