Prospects for investments in e-health: seminar of American Corporation EMC for Belarusian doctors held in Minsk

A business seminar of representatives of one of the world’s largest   IT-companies EMC Corporation (US) for health professionals of Belarus took place in the Belarusian capital. The seminar was organized by the National Agency of Investment and Privatization.

EMC Corporation submitted a report on current health trends, global trends in e-health, ways to improve the efficiency of the system, as well as proposals for optimization of e-health system in Belarus. Vice-President of EMC Corporation Michael Graetz expressed the company’s readiness to participate in projects of public-private partnership.

“Given the fact that for the last year the development of information technology in Belarus has exceeded the worldwide average level in 10 times, we should not be away from the latest global trends. We should make active use of information technology and potential of Belarusian specialists to implement all the latest developments in the health sector”, — said Natalia Nikandrova, director of the Agency.

According to Igor Kobzev, a member of the working group on the image under the Consultative Council on Foreign Investment under the Council of Ministers of Belarus, Belarus is trying to bring into the country major players from different segments of the economy that offer modern, innovative product and want to work in our country. Therefore, today's meeting with representatives of the world's largest IT company EMC is an excellent opportunity to consider the prospects of PPP.

American Corporation EMC is among the top ten largest IT companies in the world and in the Fortune-500. The company specializes in hardware and software, information security (RSA), virtualization and cloud technologies (VMware, Pivotal, Virtustream), has its own development centers in Russia, USA, China, India, Israel, Egypt; EMC  is present in the markets of 86 countries.

EMC Corporation has been actively developing e-health solutions in various countries around the world. Experience in the implementation of national programs, as specialists say, enables to talk about the effectiveness of this approach.

“The result of the introduction of technology was the increase of the health system as a whole and in terms of improving the quality of treatment process. These changes in turn directly affect the country's GDP, where a higher standard of living allows the population to produce larger GDP. According to the recent studies of IMF and the World Bank, health care and education are two main areas, improving the efficiency of which is directly reflected on the economic development ”, — said Michael Graetz , vice-president of EMC Corporation.

EMC has extensive experience in the emerging economies of the European region and CIS. The geography of successful projects of the IT-corporation is quite wide – from Norway to South Africa, including Finland, Denmark, Georgia, Great Britain and other countries.

“We operate around the world and in developed economies that allows us to transfer best practices for solving similar problems and use new ideas in different economic conditions. We are pleased to invite Belarusian specialists to visit the Ministry of Health of Finland, which is one of our flagship projects ”, — said Michael Graetz.