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IATP-Government Joint Initiative Helps Moldovan Doctors Acquire Technology Skills to Improve Patient Services
Doctors from Nisporeni master computer skill
One year following the Moldovan government’s request for IATP to pass along modern technical skills to its medical professionals, IATP has trained over 40% of the 350 doctors, nurses and hospital administrators targeted. Since January alone, 85 doctors from hospitals of eight Moldovan towns have been trained in computer and Internet basics, within the framework the project, entitled Med IT. They will use these skills to use an newly commissioned patient database, which promises to vastly improve patient services in the country.
Med IT is an IREX project which aims to help medical professionals master computer skills that will improve the quality of health care in Moldova. A critical element of the Moldovan government’s new initiative to introduce information technology into hospitals in Moldova, Med IT is a partnership between IATP and the Ministry of Health Care and Social Protection.
IATP mobile trainers Victoria Vorosciuc (IV 05), Nicolaie Reutov, Galina Gospodinova, Ghenadie Slobodeniuc, and Arteom Taranu conducted the winter sessions at newly-installed computer rooms at hospitals in the towns of Nisporeni, Briceni, Besarabca, Causeni, Cantemir, Falesti, Drochia, and Cimislia, Moldova.
In total, over 150 doctors have completed the IATP training series, which will assist them to access the latest medical research, systematize their administrative work, create websites for their institutions, and participate in countrywide online discussions to share best practices.
The Moldovan government recently equipped hospitals across Moldova with computer equipment, with the primary goal of maintaining internal databases with information about patients to increase the quality of care. As many of these professionals had never before used a computer, the MedIT partnership is critical to the success of the Ministry’s initiative and to the improvement of healthcare in the country.
