On 3rd of April 2018 the «Mobile technologies and innovations for health» congress took place. Congress was visited by major companies involved in the development of telemedicine platforms, chatbots and artificial intelligence technologies, such as «Yandex», «IBM», «Mail.Ru Group» as well as representatives of Innovative center «Iskra». During the congress you could also meet companies that work in the legal sphere of telemedicine.

Grigoriy Bakunov, director of technology promotion in Yandex, talked about new reality and his foresight of telemedicine. Also, audience was introduced to the developments of «Yandex. Health» service, since the passage of the 242- Federal Law «About the changes in law acts of Russian Federation in terms of utilizing of Information Technologies in the health protection sector» on the 29th of July of 2017.

The leading architect of client center of IBM Gayane Arutunyan spoke about new technologies and their help to medicine communities. She, also, gave the foresight of the telemedicine development in Russia in 2018 and shortly mentioned the innovations on the global market of M-Health. The founder of Endurance George Fomichev shared his experience of the development of chatbots, making the accent on the convenience of such technologies. His speech was followed by lively discussion.

Co-head of Russian unity of protection of the medical personnel Asad Usufov deepened into the question of protection of personal data in medical entities, pointed out the main aspects in the 152-Federal Law «About personal data» and answered the questions from the audience.

The head of the department of rehabilitative medicine, professor of KrasGMU clinic Andrey Tarasevic shared his practical experience on the personal management of patient health. He pointed out the main parameters of the people’s health monitoring, gave the shocking statistics of the death rate in Russia and explained its routes.

Upon the end of the speaker’s presentations representatives of Innovative center «Iskra» visited a small exhibition of medical devices and took part in the demonstration of work principal of distant cardio monitoring system «Satellite» from ELTA company.

Overall M-Health Congress 2018 apeared to be interesting and productive event, which helped to establish new connections with the industry leading companies, share experience, solve the ongoing questions and be updated on the latest trends in telemedicine.