Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with significant socio-economic damage to the state. This is caused by the disease’s late diagnosis, lack of preventive measures and low coverage of patients by rehabilitation programs.
OBJECTIVE
To perform an analysis of world experience on the use of systems for remote monitoring of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and assess the possibility of their implementation in the Russian Federation for reduction of the burden of this pathology.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
The review was carried out using publications available in eLibrary, Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed international scientific citation databases. The analysis includes studies on the application of remote monitoring systems in the countries of the European Union (EU) and USA in COPD. The possibilities of implementation of remote monitoring (RM) technology of COPD in the healthcare system of the Russian Federation were investigated in the article.
RESULTS
RM technology has been successfully applied in the healthcare system of the EU and US countries. Its implementation led to a statistically significant reduction in the frequency of hospitalizations, reduced costs for inpatient treatment and improved the quality of life of patients. It has been noted that RM allowed doctors to respond quickly to changes in patients’ condition, timely detect exacerbations preventing hospitalization. In Russia, it has also become possible to organize the RM of patients with COPD due to the creation of centralized diagnostic services platform. The development of this method has been carried out considering the features of the healthcare system of the Russian Federation and is in the testing phase.
CONCLUSION
Analysis of the available data in the literature confirms that remote monitoring improves control of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease course, reduces the frequency of exacerbations and hospitalizations. Thus, the implementation of remote monitoring in the healthcare system of the Russian Federation will also allow to increase the treatment efficacy and reduce the socio-economic damage from this pathology.
