Modern innovative health care policy in Russia

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of innovations in healthcare in Russia. The author assessed the concept of innovation with the object-process approach. It is noted that, unlike the economic sphere, where the research, development and implementation of innovations are liked to the law of profit, in the social sphere, such as health care, innovations are broader in their nature and bring economic effect, which can be either direct or indirect. The author considers sush types of innovations in the field of health care as: technical (medical-pharmaceutical), organizational-managing, processual (technological), economic, informational and technological innovations. As the study shows, there are systemic problems of innovation implementation in healthcare in Russia. The presence of these problems is connected with a whole complex of urgent fundamental structural disproportions in Russia, which require solid decisions. The author formulates the main tasks of the innovation policy of Russia in the field of health care at current stage of development. Among them are: to raise the level of infrastructure support, to increase the rates of material, technical, personnel and organizational and technological transformation of the health care system as innovation basis; optimize funding for innovation in health care; identify priority areas; in the contradiction between tradition and innovation; to develop a unified system of planning, monitoring and managing innovative projects in health care, which will help to significantly improve the efficiency of their implementation.