Managing the sustainable development of territorial healthcare for a number of diseases in the digital economy

In modern conditions, there is an urgent need to design and implement a management mechanism for the regional healthcare system that meets current trends. The object of the research is the regional healthcare system, and the subject is its sustainable development (hereinafter referred to as SD). The aim of the study is to create a management system for sustainable healthcare development in the subject based on transactional tomography of digitalisation processes and interaction of government bodies with stakeholders in the economic ecosystem of the territory. The paper provides a review of published articles indexed in scientific databases and reveals the concepts of the economic ecosystem of the territory, its SD, transactional tomography, etc. The following research tools are used: the method of generalisation, a review of literary sources as well as quantitative and qualitative data analysis. As a result of the research, an algorithm for managing the SD of healthcare has been designed and tested using the example of the Sverdlovsk region. The main health problems at the regional level have been identified and recommendations for their solution have been developed. The proposed digital health management methodology is intended for authorities of the subject. The practical significance of the study lies in the possibility of using the results by regional authorities, since the tools, techniques and recommendations proposed in the work can be applied in the process of managing the development of the healthcare system.

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