Published on: 2026-09-02
Source: Moscow Government – Правительства Москвы –
An important disclaimer is at the bottom of this article.
The Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin and the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Mikhail Murashko visited the Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine (Petrovka Street, 24, building 1). The Center specializes in the development of radiological and instrumental diagnostics, as well as in the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in practical healthcare. It includes the country’s first and one of the world’s largest radiology reference centers.
“Digitalization and new technologies are being actively implemented in healthcare both in Moscow and throughout the entire country. In recent years, the availability of radiological diagnostics has increased manifold compared to before. This is wonderful, but it also creates other challenges, because with the growth in the number of MRI, CT, X-ray machines, ultrasound devices, and mammographs, a huge number of highly qualified specialists are required who can interpret and promptly provide conclusions for patient treatment,” said Sergey Sobyanin.
However, according to him, in practice this proved to be hardly achievable, as it is impossible to synchronize the pace of specialist training with the pace of equipment fleet growth. This problem has become relevant not only for the capital but also for the country as a whole, emphasized the Mayor of Moscow.
“We created a telemedicine diagnostic center where we concentrated a large number of top-class specialists who helped diagnose based on radiological images. But even that was not enough, because the number of such images grew almost in arithmetic progression every year. To solve this problem, especially during the COVID times, in 2019, we involved artificial intelligence experts, who began to assist doctors in carrying out this work. As a result labor productivity has increased five to six times, the number of errors has decreased by half. Thus, the overall quality of healthcare has significantly improved,” said Sergei Sobyanin.
During the visit, the Mayor of Moscow held a videoconference with the heads of four regions of Russia — the Governor of Krasnodar Krai, Veniamin Kondratyev, the Governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Gleb Nikitin, the Governor of Tyumen Oblast, Aleksandr Moor, and the Governor of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Dmitry Artyukhov — on the issues of using the digital platform “MosMedAI” in the clinical practice of medical institutions of the subjects of the Russian Federation.
“The capabilities of the Moscow platform ‘MosMedAI’ have been utilized by Krasnodar Krai since October 2024. Currently, 111 hospitals and clinics in the region are connected to it. Our medical professionals use four services based on artificial intelligence technologies — for analyzing chest fluorography and radiography, as well as computed tomography of the brain and chest organs. In less than two years, more than 1.7 million studies have been processed. By this metric, we rank in the top three regions of the country,” said the Governor of Krasnodar Krai, Veniamin Kondratyev.
According to him, this became possible thanks to the modern equipment available in all the municipalities of the region.
“Even in rural areas, our district hospitals are equipped with computed tomography scanners and digital X-ray machines. Initially, doctors were cautious about the possibility of using artificial intelligence. But now they note that computer vision helps to see deviations on images that are invisible to the human eye, which means minimizing errors in preparing conclusions. Moreover, according to doctors, thanks to AI services, the time to process studies has been reduced on average from 15 to five minutes. But in this work, it is important that the final decision is made by a live specialist. In such a case, patients have more confidence in the correctness of the diagnosis,” noted Veniamin Kondratyev.
He also emphasized that the region’s radiological information system has developed thanks to the platform. Hospitals and clinics are connected to it, with more than 740 units of digital X-ray and CT machines installed.
“Artificial intelligence has become a reliable assistant for Yamal doctors. For us, this is a very important area. We see that the platform’s services accelerate the processing of studies, minimize the risk of errors, and truly change the quality of life for the northerners. Our region has a small population, but huge distances, remote territories, and industrial sites. For example, we are currently implementing portable X-ray machines into the work of air ambulances. While the team is transporting a patient by helicopter from the field or village to the hospital, all the images have already been analyzed by artificial intelligence and doctors. Precious time is not lost,” said Dmitry Artyukhov, governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YNAO).
According to him, thanks to this, people who live or work in hard-to-reach areas of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug can receive rapid and high-quality diagnostics of the same level as in large cities.
“Moscow makes a significant contribution to the quality of medical care for Russian citizens and the acceleration of digital transformation in healthcare across the country. In 2024, following the directive of President Vladimir Putin, we created a digital platform
“MosMedII” for remote analysis of radiological studies using artificial intelligence. It has already use 2,500 medical organizations in 75 regions of Russia and in a number of federal medical centers. The regions gained access to rapid and effective diagnostics without the need for independent developments,” noted Sergey Sobyanin on his channel “Max” messenger.
Source: Mayor of Moscow’s channel on messenger “Max”.
Among the medical organizations that have connected to the platform are the V.A. Almazov National Medical Research Center, Kuban State Medical University, and the Federal Medical-Biological Agency.
Among the leaders in the number of tests are Krasnodar Krai (1.7 million cumulative tests), Voronezh Oblast (1.4 million), Chelyabinsk Oblast (1.3 million), Krasnoyarsk Krai (1.1 million), Moscow and Tyumen Oblasts (one million each), Samara Oblast (684 thousand), Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (644 thousand), Kaliningrad Oblast (590 thousand), Bashkortostan (560 thousand), Altai Krai (492 thousand), Lipetsk Oblast (481 thousand).
The «MosMedAI» platform offers regions 18 AI services for interpreting CT scans, X-rays, fluorograms, and mammograms. Most of them are comprehensive, capable of detecting up to 14 different pathologies on a single image. Among them are diagnostic services for socially significant and common diseases such as ischemic stroke and heart disease, intracranial hemorrhage, pneumothorax, malignant lung tumors, pulmonary emphysema, shadows in the chest cavity, breast cancer, rib fractures, aortic aneurysm, and others.
“In fact, this guarantees high accuracy in diagnosis using artificial intelligence. The model is also good because leading specialists from Moscow and other regions are currently involved in evaluating the work of artificial intelligence. And if there is the slightest suspicion that artificial intelligence deviates from the diagnosis suggested by the doctor, of course, system adjustments are immediately made. This allows us to guarantee the quality of medical care for patients,” noted the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Murashko.
The connection of regional medical organizations of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation is carried out through a single access point. The executive authority in the field of healthcare can independently choose which AI services to connect in its region.
“Currently, medical organizations in the Nizhny Novgorod region use a total of nine AI services from the “MosMedAI” platform. With their help, pathologies of the brain, spine, chest organs, and mammary glands are identified. After nearly two years of our cooperation with the Moscow Department of Health, the AI services have processed about 650 thousand studies conducted in Nizhny Novgorod clinics, with pathologies found in patients in almost half of the cases. Undoubtedly, this helps improve the accuracy and speed of diagnosis. This means that medical care becomes even higher quality,” noted the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Gleb Nikitin.
The Governor of the Tyumen Region, Alexander Moor, said that using the MosMedAI platform, diagnostics in six areas are currently being conducted in the region. Services employing artificial intelligence are already part of the daily work of doctors.
“AI-based algorithms have become a reliable assistant for our radiologists. This is especially important in screening studies: their volume is very large, and the time to describe each image is limited. The system automatically highlights the necessary areas and performs measurements — the analysis goes faster, the workload on specialists is reduced, and the risk of human error is minimized. Modern information technologies save lives,” noted Alexander Moor.
Sergei Sobyanin thanked his colleagues for their joint work on developing a new artificial intelligence service in the field of radiology. “Starting from a small experimental platform, we have grown into a megaproject that has no analogues in the world in terms of either quality or the volume of research. We offered you to collaborate, and you actively engaged in it,” emphasized the Mayor of Moscow.
The use of the “MosMedAI” platform is free and as simple, convenient, and effective as possible for regional medical institutions. The operating principle is: regions send an image, and they receive a preliminary conclusion indicating the diagnosis.
“Ultimately, the interpretation by AI is confirmed by a radiologist of a medical organization. Thus, the final decision always remains with the specialist. It is also very important that most images are processed within five minutes. Before switching to ‘MosMedAI,’ the manual interpretation of images usually took several days. Since the launch of the city platform, more than 18 million studies have already been processed across Russia. Every month, Moscow AI services interpret 1.4 million studies, about 80 percent of which are from the regions. It is estimated that this accounts for a quarter of all images performed in Russia,” wrote Sergey Sobyanin on his channel.
Source: Mayor of Moscow’s channel on in the messenger “Max”
Thanks to extensive practical experience, Moscow specialists developing AI services simultaneously actively participate in the preparation of national standards (GOSTs) regulating the use of AI in healthcare. The subcommittee of Technical Committee for Standardization No. 164 “Artificial Intelligence,” established by Rosstandart, operates based at the Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine.
As of today, 28 national standards have come into effect (six of them in 2026), covering the entire life cycle of the technology — from requirements for data and algorithms to procedures for technical and clinical testing, as well as issues of safety and quality.
Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine
The Moscow Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine, established in 1996, employs more than 340 specialists. These include doctors, scientists, engineers, developers, analysts, and professionals in the field of digital technologies. The institution represents a powerful center of competence for the development of radiation and instrumental diagnostics.
One of its most important divisions is the reference center for radiological diagnostics. It operates around the clock to interpret radiological studies conducted in Moscow clinics. Thanks to the creation of the center, the speed of report preparation has increased many times over (for example, by 24 times in processing fluorography).
In 2020, with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the center’s specialists who organized and implemented new mass diagnostic technologies for COVID pneumonia using AI (computer vision) services in practice.
At the peak of the pandemic in Moscow, up to 10,000 computed tomography scans were performed daily; from April 2020 to April 2022, specialists in outpatient CT centers conducted nearly one million examinations. Signs of pneumonia were detected in 613,000 patients.
Thanks to the use of AI algorithms, coronavirus pneumonias were identified within 15 minutes. Then, in real time, the images and accompanying information were transmitted to clinical doctors.
Work on diagnosing COVID pneumonia laid the foundation for an unprecedented scientific experiment in introducing computer vision into radiological diagnostics. Over six years, more than 200 AI services were developed and tested, of which about 70 AI services across 45 clinical areas have now been implemented in practical medicine.
“It’s not enough to create a service — it needs to be constantly fine-tuned, meaning every diagnosis must be reviewed by specialists in the field and analyzed to determine whether it was made correctly or incorrectly. Only then does the model operate at a qualitatively high level, and moreover, it is constantly improved. If you just let it run on its own, it will quickly degrade and stop working,” emphasized Sergey Sobyanin.
Thus, smart algorithms have become a full-fledged working tool Moscow doctor, integrated into clinical practice and used daily for diagnosis. AI analyzes medical images, highlights potentially significant areas, generates a preliminary description, performs necessary measurements, and provides the physician with additional information to establish an accurate diagnosis. At the same time, artificial intelligence acts solely as a tool clinical decision support — the final conclusion always remains with the doctor. That is, the system is designed to minimize risks: AI assists the doctor but does not replace them.
To date, more than 45 million studies have been processed using neural networks for patients in Moscow and the regions. Neural networks help detect signs of lung cancer, pneumonia, osteoporosis, aortic aneurysm, ischemic heart disease, stroke, pulmonary hypertension, hydrothorax, and other pathologies on medical images (X-rays, mammograms, computed tomography scans, and magnetic resonance imaging).
More than 10 development companies cooperate with the capital’s healthcare system, providing services that allow for the detection of signs of one or several diseases.
Testing laboratory
A testing laboratory operates at the Diagnostics and Telemedicine Center. It monitors radiation safety in medical organizations in Moscow, develops and implements equipment standards for radiology departments, and organizes radiation protection for more than eight thousand employees of medical organizations. In addition, the laboratory conducts over two thousand technical tests of X-ray machines annually, and inspects X-ray protective aprons and other individual radiation protection means.
The concept of monitoring patients’ radiation exposure, developed by the center, has been implemented in practical healthcare. In electronic medical record Data on radiation doses from each radiological examination are stored for Muscovites. This information is used by clinical doctors to make decisions about conducting future examinations. Thanks to digital technologies, innovative solutions, and strict regulatory control, today the radiation exposure of Muscovites is minimized.
Research activities
Since 2013, specialists of the Diagnostics and Telemedicine Center have prepared more than 800 scientific materials: articles, methodological recommendations, monographs, and textbooks. According to the Russian Science Citation Index, the center ranks fourth among urban medical organizations in terms of the number of publications.
In recent years, the results of research activities have been particularly notable. The center’s staff have received professional recognition by participating in Russian and international events. Among them are the IT Projects Award “Digital Summits — 2025”, the All-Russian Competition “Mentoring-2025”, the Russian Academy of Sciences competition for the gold medal with prizes for young scientists and students (2025), the International “Gravity” Award (2024, 2025), the BRICS Solutions Awards for technological innovations (2024), the All-Russian Scientific School “Young Medicine” (2024), the “Textbook of the Year” award (2025), the Russian Federation Government Award in Science and Technology for young scientists in 2022, the Moscow Government Award for young scientists for 2022, the “Standardizer of the Year — 2022” and “Standardizer of the Year — 2025” awards.
The center hosts a scientific and educational laboratory where students from leading universities — Sechenov University, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and Russian Technological University — receive training and practical preparation.
Education
The center also provides training for doctors and mid-level medical staff (radiology technicians). Since 2016, it has been implementing continuing professional education programs; from 2023, training of postgraduate students in the specialty “radiation diagnosis”; and in 2025, it obtained a license for the training of residents in the specialty “radiology.”
The center offers various educational formats — from one-hour webinars and master classes to advanced training courses and preparation for residency and postgraduate studies. Classes are held at convenient times and allow for learning without interrupting practical work. Since its inception (from 2016 to 2025), over 160,000 specialists have undergone training at the education center.
Creating phantoms
The in-house production of high-tech products allows for the manufacture of 14 types of medical phantoms and simulators. These include models of the breast and thyroid gland, a liver phantom simulating human vessels and nerves. They are already used in the Moscow healthcare system.
At the Human Resources Center of the capital Department of Health Oncologists undergo training on breast phantoms — more than 100 models have been set up for this purpose. Such developments are used by manufacturers of medical equipment, simulation centers, as well as educational organizations in Russia and abroad.
International cooperation
The Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine is actively developing international cooperation in the fields of science, radiological diagnostics, digital medicine, and artificial intelligence. Its experts have joined the executive committee of the Asia-Pacific Society of Head and Neck Radiologists.
The center collaborates with professional communities from 26 countries worldwide, including participation in international congresses, conferences, and the exchange of scientific and practical experience. Such cooperation allows for familiarization with advanced developments in the field of radiation diagnostics and digital technologies, as well as promoting the successful Moscow experience in developing artificial intelligence and digital healthcare infrastructure.
Find out how the capital has changed over the past years, what initiatives aimed at making citizens’ lives even more comfortable are currently being implemented, and what awaits Moscow and its residents in the near future in a large-scale special project on the portal mos.ru, dedicated to the development of key areas of Moscow. Among them are transport, industry, healthcare, education, sports, and the construction sector.
On the project page “Healthcare” you can learn about how the reconstruction of city polyclinics and hospitals took place, as well as about the implementation of digital services and technologies based on artificial intelligence.
Subscribe to Sergei Sobyanin’s official channels on messengers “Max” and “Telegram”.
Please note; This information is raw content obtained directly from the source. It is an accurate report of what the source claims and does not necessarily reflect the position of MIL-OSI or its clients.