[COVID-TECH AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN FOREIGN AND RUSSIAN HEALTH CARE DURING THE NEW CORONAVIRUS INFECTION PANDEMIC].

The novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) pandemic has become the biggest challenge to global and national health systems in the last 100 years. At the same time, the rapid spread of COVID-19, which required the introduction of quarantine measures, the need to maintain social distance and isolate the infected, spurred the development of information technology (IT). In healthcare, information technology has begun to play the role of support systems for various types of medical activities that have experienced a tremendous increase in workload.