The system ensures the following:

- Creation, storage, editing and rejection of consultations;
- Receipt, storage and processing of consultation requests received by means of external information systems, through supplementary services;
- Appointment of consulting doctor in charge, for the purpose of rendering of consulting service, monitoring of the whole process of consulting service provision, and monitoring of consultation status;
- Preparation and storage (in electronic form) of requests of information necessary for consultations, within the framework of treatment-and-prophylactic institutions' collaboration;
- Preparation and storage (in electronic form) of replies necessary for consultations, within the framework of treatment-and-prophylactic institutions' collaboration.

System functions

- Simultaneous work of 150+ system users with the usage of thin-client technology;
- Possibility for functioning of local system database to be used in the event of absence of communication channel with provider of service of system software access;
- Possibility for creation of databank and access system as to the results of instrumental examinations (including graphical information);
- Ensuring usage of one workstation for work of several users with different roles and access rights;
- Choosing consultants from reference database when sending images to server as per areas of expertise and investigation;
- Managing list of requests (supervision);
- Preparation of requests on the basis of data of various formats (data of X-ray diagnostics; laboratory, endoscope and other investigations; graphical and textual information);
- Receiving and sending consultation results as required;
- As far as consultants' answers to requests are concerned, ensuring support of investigation protocols and consultants' responses;
- Management of opinion statements: creating and editing opinion statements on consultations;
- Managing the list of opinion statements;
- Creating data archive for consultations performed;
- Integration with medical information systems (searching, viewing and downloading of data from patients' health records);
- Integration with institution-level and region-level DICOM databanks for accessing patients' diagnostic investigations, with built-in preview tools.

As part of system evolution, a special module was developed for automation of screening process (automated system of remote tele-healthcare consultations with a module called System of Descriptions, Recommendations and Statistics of Mammography Screening).

Objects and tasks

- Standardization of work of X-ray diagnostician;
- On-job self-education;
- Statistic reporting;
- Scientific-and-research analysis of databases for subsequent development of 'intellectual software'.