Russian Health Minister opened the Artificial Intelligence Day at the medical exposition

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On March 13, at the exposition of the Ministry of Health of Russia "In the Service of Health!" in Pavilion C1, a number of events of the Artificial Intelligence Day at the International RUSSIA EXPO took place.

The Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Mikhail Murashko opened the Artificial Intelligence Day at the medical exposition.

Mikhail Murashko noted that the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare and the use of programs that accompany the patient is a modern trend. Such programs allow to analyze large amounts of data about a patient and suggest solutions for the preservation and promotion of health - these directions will develop in any case. The minister named personal medical assistants as an example of such programs.

"The development of programs with artificial intelligence, which will work specifically with the patient, is a modern trend. In any case, when such programs allow to analyze some simple data and give them already in the form of solutions for the patient - this direction will develop. In particular, personal medical assistants - when a patient receives certain medication therapy and needs to adjust the dose of the medicine or the frequency of its use," said the minister.

Also, within the framework of the main topic of the day, the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation was presented innovative solutions with artificial intelligence. Among them were:

- AI assistant during colonoscopy - an original development of the A.N. Ryzhikh NMRC of coloproctology of the Russian Ministry of Health and the Russian company Alnisoft. This solution based on computer vision is designed to help detect polyps and tumors during colonoscopy. It is compatible with endoscopic equipment from various manufacturers. During a colonoscopy, the AI assistant illuminates colon neoplasms in real time. Subsequently, this will help the doctor to remove them and prevent the development of cancer.

- A joint development of the V. A. Almazov NMRC of the Russian Ministry of Health and the National Center for Service Integration and WaveAccess company to create a medical device using artificial intelligence technologies for the automatic calculation of linear dimensions of the heart, volumetric characteristics and some parameters previously available only on expert-class equipment.

The attention of the guests of the Russian Ministry of Health exposition was attracted by the interactive lecture "Digital Medicine for People", which was presented by the leading expert, Head of the Department of Information and Internet Technologies, Director of the Institute of Digital Medicine of the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Russian Ministry of Health (Sechenov University) Georgy Lebedev.

During the lecture, the expert explained what digital healthcare is, what it consists of and how it is developing, what modern medical technologies exist, thanks to which it is possible to diagnose, control, treat and sometimes even prevent diseases, detecting them at an early stage of development, what telemedicine is and how it increases the availability and quality of medical care, what telemedicine gives our citizens, what artificial intelligence (AI) is, how AI enters our lives, how it affects the work of doctors, the quality of medical care, where it is used, and how it affects the quality of medical care.