Kazakhstan's Health Ministry plans to fully digitalize the career trajectory of medical professionals, from enrollment in educational institutions to employment, skills upgrading and career growth. The ministry has drafted amendments to the human resources accounting system to create a unified digital space for medical workers, enhance personnel policy efficiency and better forecast the country's demand for doctors and nurses, according to infohub.kz.
The ministry has developed a draft order amending Order No. ҚР ДСМ-253/2020 of December 11, 2020, "On approval of rules for accounting of human resources in healthcare (maintaining a professional register)." The document provides for the development of the National Human Resources Accounting System and the creation of a unified digital platform that consolidates information on training, education, professional activity and development of healthcare workers.
"The main goal of the initiative is to digitalize the entire professional career of medical specialists. The unified system will reflect all stages of their career, from admission to a medical college or university, subsequent training, residency, employment, advanced training, and continuous professional development," the explanatory note to the draft says.
The ministry notes that improving the National Accounting System will enhance the efficiency of specialist training planning, provide medical organizations with qualified personnel, and improve the quality of medical care.
The draft proposes to approve new rules for the formation, maintenance, system-technical support and cybersecurity of the National Human Resources Accounting System, as well as separate rules for accounting for students and specialists in healthcare.
"One of the key innovations will be the creation of a unified digital trajectory for training and professional development of medical workers. Information on each stage of education and work activity will be generated and stored in a single digital space, providing a complete and up-to-date picture of each medical specialist's professional development," the explanatory note states.
The professional register will accumulate data on personnel training, educational trajectories of students and resident doctors, professional activity, qualification levels, continuous development, personnel movement, and the healthcare system's need for specialists in various fields.
Another important direction is expanding the register's integration with state information systems. This will increase the reliability and relevance of information, eliminate data duplication, and ensure efficient data exchange between various government resources.
The project pays special attention to information protection. The document strengthens requirements for cybersecurity, information system maintenance, and protection of medical workers' personal data.
The system modernization is expected to improve the quality of state management of healthcare human resources. New digital tools will enable more accurate forecasting of specialist needs, refine the formation of state educational orders, track graduate employment, and make effective staffing decisions.
For citizens, the project's implementation means creating a more modern, transparent and efficient system for training and deploying medical personnel. This should help ensure timely staffing of hospitals and clinics with necessary specialists and improve the accessibility and quality of medical care across all regions of Kazakhstan.
The Ministry emphasized that the introduction of the updated system will ensure the reliability of personnel information, improve the efficiency of forecasting the need for medical workers, refine the mechanism for forming state orders, strengthen monitoring of graduate employment, and make healthcare personnel policy more modern and flexible.