Republican Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan: From Infrastructure Projects to Digital Modernization
- Authors: Ivanov A.Y.1, Ivanova R.G.1
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Affiliations:
- Kazan State Medical University
- Issue: Vol 106, No 3 (2025)
- Pages: 485-492
- Section: History of medicine
- Submitted: 03.12.2024
- Accepted: 18.02.2025
- Published: 30.05.2025
- URL: https://kazanmedjournal.ru/kazanmedj/article/view/642508
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/KMJ642508
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/UTXZVU
- ID: 642508
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Abstract
This article analyzes the organizational and structural transformation stages of the Republican Clinical Hospital, the leading healthcare institution of the Republic of Tatarstan. This study utilized archival documents and historiographic sources to provide a historical retrospective of the forms and methods used to implement state healthcare decisions and personal initiatives of key administrators. It presents key developments in the systematic advancement of infrastructure projects that have determined the hospital’s evolution as a state institution, integrating various objectives of the national healthcare system into its clinical practice. The article highlights the hospital’s multidisciplinary profile and its role in preserving and transmitting professional traditions among physicians and healthcare personnel at all levels. An axiological approach was employed to explore the role of corporate values within the medical community and the historical forms through which these values were expressed in administrative decisions and consolidation of the medical staff. Moreover, the article examines the stages of the evolution of the Republican Clinical Hospital as a distinctive sociocultural system, presenting the factors that influenced its establishment and development, including regional patterns of morbidity and the need for new clinical infrastructure. Additionally, the role of Kazan State Medical University and other academic institutions in Kazan in facilitating the integration of medical science into clinical practice is emphasized.
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Anton Yu. Ivanov
Kazan State Medical University
Email: Antonivanof@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7039-9326
SPIN-code: 9949-2790
Cand. Sci. (History), Associate Professor, Depart. of Biomedical Ethics, Medical Law and History of Medicine
Russian Federation, 49 Butlerova st, Kazan, 420012Regina G. Ivanova
Kazan State Medical University
Author for correspondence.
Email: MuseumKGMU@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5026-2709
SPIN-code: 2188-2227
Cand. Sci. (History), Head, Museum of History
Russian Federation, 49 Butlerova st, Kazan, 420012References
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