title: A balanced approach to IT reforms in the system of healthcare in the Russian Federation.
abstract: Russia's IT in healthcare today is a loose alloy of the inherited pre-perestroika infrastructure with the modern healthcare governance initiatives, against the background of the rapidly developing private sector in the medical IT-industry. By illustrating a balanced approach to major IT reforms of the healthcare system, presented by Russia's leading experts in the field, we have tried to outline and accentuate a growing degree of awareness of the need to create a single information space in the system of healthcare.
authors.affiliation: Medical Centre for Information and Analysis of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: Petr P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Kuznetsov
authors.forename: Andrey P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Stolbov
authors.forename: Konstantin J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Chebotaev
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012800:Siberia