07.08.2023
In Moscow, in Gostiny Dvor, at the International Congress Urban Health of the Moscow Urban Forum-2023, a panel discussion "Health in the megapolis: technologies take medicine to a new level" was held. Evgeny Borisov, a member of the Board of Directors of Medical Visual Systems and Director of development at the private investment company Kama Flow, spoke about domestic innovations in the healthcare sector.
The Moscow Urban Forum (MUF) is an international congress dedicated to the development of megacities and the challenges they face. The Forum has been held in Moscow since 2011 and brings together representatives of the city administrations of Russia and the world, architects, urban planners, developers, heads of financial companies, investors, technology startups, media representatives and citizens. MUF-2023 has become the largest in the entire history of its holding. The Urban Health Congress, held within the framework of the MUF for the third time, was devoted to the topic of healthcare for modern residents of the megapolis.
The panel discussion “Health in the megapolis: technologies take medicine to a new level” was devoted to practical achievements, technologies that have already proven themselves and are changing the healthcare sector for the better. The moderator of the panel discussion was Dmitry Mugenov, Director of the Department of Special Projects of the EMIAS of Moscow, GKU “Information and Analytical Center in the field of healthcare”. Anticipating Evgeny Borisov’s speech, he shared his impressions of MVS technologies.
Dmitry Mugenov
Director of the Department of Special Projects of the EMIAS of Moscow State Institution "Information and Analytical Center in the field of healthcare"
When we opened the NEICC — a network of emergency inpatient care complexes in Moscow*, created according to new standards of emergency medical care, I saw an operating room with huge beautiful screens where all the necessary information is displayed to the surgeon. My first thought was how much money we spent on this Swiss technology that we saw somewhere at the exhibition. But it turned out that this is a domestic Medical Visual Systems company from St. Petersburg. They integrated the equipment themselves and made a world-class operating room...
*We are talking about the opening of the emergency stationary complex of the V. V. Veresaev State Medical University of Moscow find out more.
In his report “Medicine of the Future: an ecosystem of healthy life”, Yevgeny Borisov stressed the importance of investing in Russian innovations. The private investment company Kama Flow is one of the most active healthcare investors in Russia, including an investment round in MVS at the end of 2022. Read about this….
Evgeniy Borisov
Director of Development of the private investment company Kama Flow, member of the Board of Directors of Medical Visual Systems
5-7 years ago, it was difficult to invest in domestic projects, as Russian consumers supported Western manufacturers. But over the past 2 years, fundamental changes have taken place in our country — thinking has changed, the Russian market and consumers have become more open to the introduction of domestic innovations. This has allowed many Russian companies to go abroad and compete in the foreign market. For example, Medical Visual Systems already exports its products...
Evgeny Borisov also noted that Moscow is a testing ground for growing the most incredible ideas. If they get a response, they go to the masses. But when we talk about investments, it is important to be conservative and adhere to the principle of “do no harm.” It is necessary to experiment with innovations very carefully — it takes a long time and months to check the implementation. And for this, their customer must be qualified and ready to use new technologies. This criterion was one of the decisive ones in making the decision to invest in MVS.