Problems of introducing information technologies in practice of psychiatric service

Efficiency of the organization of psychiatric care increases when usage of information technologies intensifies, and interaction of various institutions providing psychiatric care improves. Development and improvement of electronic forms of medical documentation, automation of the psychiatrist's workplace, data transmission using protected information channels provide continuity in mental health care providing. However, informatization of medicine in some cases assumes a basic change of doctor's work technology, algorithms, techniques of collecting and processing information, and decision-making. For the purpose of studying doctors' readiness for work in this direction, we analyzed opinions of the practicing psychiatrists. Also integrity of using all opportunities for application of information technologies in psychiatric practice was investigated, data on integration of psychiatric community in use of information technologies at the present stage were compared, dynamics of process was estimated. Poll data of 100 psychiatrists working in out-patient and stationary facilities of Volgograd city have been used for research. Conclusions are drawn on the perspective directions of interdepartmental cooperation of medical psychiatric community and professionals of information technologies: development of high-quality Russian-language software for patients' electronic diaries, the multi-purpose automated questionnaire for a complex of organizational and methodical actions for carrying out routine inspections at the new technological level, creation and improvement of a medical information network for psychiatric service. The fastest introduction of the information technologies facilitating control and supervision of separate groups of the patients, for example, follow up the dispensary supervision (DS), carrying out the medical commissions, training, remote supervision for the areas of region and also for ensuring the principle of continuity in psychiatric practice is especially actual for psychiatry.