[Innovative technologies and innovative policy in the health system of Ukraine].

In the paper, consideration is given to the conceptual framework of the problem, as to which issue opinions vary among specialists. This has a negative impact on organization of carrying on of innovatory policy in the health service. Factographic data are presented on innovatory technologies in the health service, qualitative and quantitative parameters of such activities.

[Methodology for the comprehensive evaluation of the quality of performance of activities of medical and social experts].

The paper scientifically substantiates methodology, approaches, criteria, and control indices for assessment of activities of establishments of medical-and-social performance. Most indices for efficiency and certain indices for week points in the work of establishments of the service depend on interaction thereof with curative- and prophylactic institutions; the best results with the problem of prevention of disability and rehabilitation of invalids are supposed to be achieved through collaborative efforts. Other criteria and intermediate indices having an effect on the quality of activities reflect the resource- and trained personnel supplies of establishments of the service, amount of work, organizational measures designed to raise the quality of medical-and-social expert performance.

[Methodological approaches toward higher safety of hemotransfusion therapy].

Safety of haemotransfusions remains a challenge in modern transfusion medicine. Methodological approaches toward eliminating risks for haemotransfusion complications include a wider employment of principles of haemocomponent therapy, prevention of a possibility of infections contamination of blood and its components, deleukocytation of blood components, categorizing of donors by phenotypes, registering those donors having been phenotyped, categorizing of potential recipients by phenotypes, screening of alloimmune antierythrocytic antibodies in donors, sick and pregnant women, introduction of autodonation on a wide scale.