The point is simple. As chairman of the regional committee on innovation and informatization, Artur Kontrabaev held a competition to introduce a regional health information system (RIHS) in the Tula region. The winner was the company “Medotrade”, which refused to fulfill the contract
The repeated competition was won by Smart Delta Systems LLC, which implemented this system literally six months later.
In the ranking of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, which is maintained by the federal Ministry of Health, the Tula region has been ranked first in the digitalization of healthcare for several years. Neither the Ministry of Health nor the Ministry of Information Technology has any complaints about the program, but residents of the region have been using the portal very well since 2013 Doctor71.
However, in 2017, after two refusals to initiate a criminal case, the Investigative Committee was opened in the person of investigator Fedorov, where they decided that since the company has been developing its program since 2005, the Tula Ministry of Health did not receive any new product, the program could be taken for free, and Chernousov and Kontrabaev simply stole 68.3 million rubles.
It must be admitted that the investigators of the Investigative Committee cannot help but amaze with their ingenuity: after all, with this approach, any company that buys products, for example, 1C, which has been developing, publishing and supporting computer programs since the early 90s of the last century, commits a crime. What can we say about corporate Windows, which has been in development for even longer. Just wondering, what then, in the understanding of the investigators of the Investigative Committee, is software piracy?
Experts note that medical information systems (MIS) “cannot be purchased according to the principle: they bought it once, and the developer cannot sell it to another buyer.” As Oleg Simakov, one of the authors of the concept for creating a Unified State Health Information System, noted, “regions always followed a “mixed” option: they used existing systems, and then implemented and created their own regional system based on the chosen MIS. … because never one “pure” MIS, purchased in a “box,” could satisfy the requirements of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation.”
It is not surprising that investigator Fedorov was forced to drop the first criminal case against Kontrabaev due to the lack of corpus delicti. But Fedorov was not used to retreating, and filed a second one for the same reasons.
And this despite the fact that the victim he appointed—the government of the Tula region—does not recognize himself as a victim: a representative of the regional administration, during one of the first court hearings, refuted all the arguments of the prosecution, telling the court that the system was created by Smart Delta Systems LLC. in 2013 and is still used in the regional healthcare system.
It comes to the point that even with the examination, the investigators under the leadership of Fedorov do not present themselves in the best light: experts from the Russian Federal Center for Expertise at the Ministry of Justice, invited by the defense, noted that not only was the examination carried out by the investigation using an unknown, unrecognized and unscientific methodology, but they also examined , which does not exist – a 2013 program that has long since undergone changes during use and maintenance.
But we have no doubt that Fedorov will go to the end and will not stand for the price (after all, his personal “uniform honor” is at stake), but it is not he who will have to pay for this, but the residents of Tula. If the court takes the prosecution’s side, Chernousov will have to return all funds received under the government contract and take back his software package.
In the Central District Court of Tula, the consideration of a criminal case about the theft of funds during the implementation of the health information system in the Tula region is already entering the home stretch.
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