Unified State Health Information Systems (USHIS) in Eastern Countries DOI: 10.29188/2712-9217-2024-10-3-21-34

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The introduction of information technology (IT) in healthcare has led to a real revolution in the provision and management of medical care. However, they are developing with different intensity in different countries.

The purpose of the study was to test criteria to determine the degree of IT development in healthcare, as well as to illustrate the assessment of IT development in different countries to compare them with each other. To achieve this goal, we have identified a set of criteria covering key aspects of the implementation and use of IT in medical practice. We have selected the countries of the East for this study.

We searched information on the level of IT development in healthcare in the Eastern countries in Google open sources and PubMed databases manually, as well as using GPT-3.5 Turbo. According to the availability and development of criteria, the degree of IT development in healthcare was assessed and the categories «Highly», «Medium» and «Less» developed were assigned.

As a result, within the study’s methodology framework, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Laos, South Korea, Japan and China were classified as countries with highly developed IT in healthcare. Countries with medium-developed IT in healthcare included Jordan, Oman, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Bahrain, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, India and Bangladesh. Lebanon, Kuwait, East Timor and Brunei were among the countries with the least developed IT in healthcare.