Russia Duma considers it 'necessary' to adopt WHO's global digital health passport
June 7, 2023
Member of the State Duma Committee on Health Alexander Petrov (United Russia) considers it necessary to abandon paper medical records. He told the Moscow City News Agency about this, commenting on the initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO) to create and distribute a global system of digital health certificates in preparation for future pandemics.
“Of course, paper patient records should be a thing of the past. This is absolutely accurate. Their digital counterparts could be called an electronic certificate. But, probably, in Russian, it will sound like an electronic patient record,” Petrov said.
According to him, work is currently underway to create unified databases on the health of patients. “There have been attempts. I know that many Russian IT specialists are working on this, purposefully working, in separate blocks. Of course, it is the task of the state to create such an electronic database,” the deputy added.
Earlier, the media reported that the European Union and WHO proposed to extend the experience of digital COVID-certificates to the whole world and create a global system of digital health certificates in preparation for future pandemics.