Questions of choosing a medical information system and cloud technologies

The article covers the questions of choosing medical information systems (MIS) for automation of medical-prophylactic institutions work on the basis of their characteristics and their compliance with the MIS statutory requirements of the Russian Federation “About personal data” and their compliance with departmental orders regarding interaction with the unified state information system in the field of healthcare. Along with the traditional criterions of MIS chose based on their functional characteristics and clinical, organizational, and economic efficacy criterions, the problems of choosing MIS in accordance with criterions of efficient use of “cloud” MIS realization for the specific kinds of medical-prophylactic institutions are considered. The article gives the analysis of application of cloud realizations in MIS of medical-prophylactic institutions, shows their merits and demerits, and gives recommendations on expediency of cloud realization depending on medical institution structure and specialization. This article recommends to use cloud MIS for automation of medical institutions like polyclinics where their use can give visible economic effect and raise the quality of medical service.