How do you feel, Doctor? (Published in "Russian Magazine" № 49 dated March 3, 2014)

Today the Ministry of Health has developed new methods of payment for medical care, aimed not at the extensive indicators but at the result of treatment in each case.

In order to make hospitals works effectively, quick diagnosing is needed. We have the same expensive medical equipment loaded with part-time and on weekends diagnosis often not done at all. Another direction of optimization – is the development of outpatient surgery.

There were changes in the service of "first aid".

In 2013, pilot projects for outsourcing fleet "ambulance" took place in several regions.