ISTANBUL - The Turkish Ministry of Health will initiate "Tele-Medicine Practice" which will enable digital transfer and examination of ultrasound, pathology and radiology data.
In an interview with the A.A, Ministry of Health Director General for Data Processing Nihat Akpinar said, "under the project, there will be 12 sender and 2 receiver hospitals. The system will allow us to send MR of a patient in the eastern city of Erzurum to the receiver hospital in Ankara. The data will be sent back to Erzurum after being examined by experts. It will prevent any wrongful diagnosis. We determined the receiver hospitals as Ankara`s Ataturk Training Hospital and Ankara`s Training & Research Hospital. This system will cover whole Turkey in the coming years."
Akpinar said that they were also working to create a "Doctor Data Bank".
"All information about doctors` ID and education will be collected in the bank. This will provide pharmacists with a great deal of facilities," he added.