Alexander Gusev

Chief Business Development Officer

Project role

Product development strategy and market launch, consulting in the subject area

Education

Ph.D. in Technical Science; higher technical education: 1998, Petrozavodsk State University, a degree in engineering.

Professional achievements

In 1998-1999 he served in the military hospital of the Strategic Missile Forces of the Russian Federation, where he took part in the development of medical software for military needs.

From 1999 to 2007 he worked in the medical center of Kondopoga town in Karelia, Russia, which was the research and practical base for the northwestern branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. He was the creator of Kondopoga Medical Information system (MIS) Kondopoga, one of the first large Russian integrated information systems for medical organization automation and electronic health record maintenance (EHR).

In 2007, together with partners, he founded the K-MIS company, which has become one of the leading developers of medical software in Russia over the years. CNews placed K-MIS in second place in its ranking of “Key Healthcare Information Systems Providers in Russia” in 2010. The company took 2nd place in the rating “The largest suppliers of IT solutions for healthcare” in 2016. According to the monitoring of the market for digitalization of public health in the Russian Federation for 2013-2017 K-MIS takes 5th place in terms of revenue.

In 2010, he was invited to the position of executive editor for the journal Physician and Information Technologies. It is the only scientific publication in Russia in the field of medical informatics and cybernetics, included in the core of the RSCI ( Russian Science Citation Index) and the list of the Higher Attestation Commission.

In December 2012, according to the order of the Russian Ministry of Health No. 1638, he was appointed as a member of the expert council of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation for the issues of information and communication technologies in healthcare systems, then by order No. 176 of 04/08/2015, he was re-elected to the new board.

In 2018, he founded the Webiomed project together with Roman Novitsky and is now engaged in its development and promotion. What is more, Alexander works as a business adviser for K-MIS.

In 2018, he took part in the creation of the association “National Medical Knowledge Base” (NBMZ), is currently a member of its supervisory board and is promoting the association.

In the summer of 2019, he was included in the Digital Healthcare Sectoral Working Group (WG), created on the site of the Digital Economy ANO.

Нe worked as a Program Director of the Digital Transformation of Health Care Course at the Graduate School of Public Management of the RANEPA in 2019

Since December 2019, he has been a senior researcher at the Scientific and Practical Clinical Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine Technologies of the Moscow Department of Healthcare and a member of the Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Subcommittee (PC 01) of Technical Committee 164.

In 2020, he joined the editorial board of the Russian Journal of Telemedicine and E-Health.

Since April 2021, he has been an expert on artificial intelligence at the Central Research Institute for Health Organization and the Informatization of the Ministry of Health of Russia.

In 2023, he was included in the Artificial Intelligence sectoral working group of the ANO "Digital Economy".

Research

Alexander defended his thesis on the design of integrated medical information systems using mathematical modeling and a service-oriented approach in 2004.

He is the author of over 200 scientific papers on the development and implementation of medical information systems,including co-author in the books "Medical Information Systems" (2005), "Ethics and Digital: From Challenges to Solutions" (2021), "Ethical Review of Biomedical Research: A Guide for Ethics Committees" (2021), "Information Technology, Computational Systems, and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine" (2022), and "Real-World Clinical Research" (2023).

In 2021, he became a co-author from Russia in the international textbook "Handbook of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare" published by Springer Nature.

He is the scientific editor of the Russian edition of Eric Topol's book "Artificial Intelligence in Medicine" (2021), as well as the book "Digital Transformation of Healthcare: From Traditional to Virtual Medical Care" by Paul Serrato and John Halamka (2022).

А member of the editorial boards of the journals "Doctor and Information Technologies", "Real Clinical Practice: Data and Evidence", and "Russian Journal of Telemedicine and Electronic Healthcare". Reviewer on the topic of artificial intelligence in leading Russian scientific journals, including "National Healthcare", "Digital Diagnostics", "Sechenov Bulletin", "Healthcare of the Russian Federation", and others.

Не is the author of the K-Sky company blog https://webiomed.ai/blog/, which covers the topic of artificial intelligence and decision support systems.

He has a blog https://webiomed.ru/en/blog/, in which he publishes various notes on the digital transformation of medicine and healthcare.

Co-author of a series of national standards for artificial intelligence systems in healthcare, including ГОСТ Р 72313-2025, ГОСТ Р 72357-2025, ГОСТ Р 72356-2025, ГОСТ Р 59921.1-2022, ГОСТ Р 59921.2-2021, ГОСТ Р 59921.3-2021, ГОСТ Р 59921.4-2021, ГОСТ Р 59921.5-2022, ГОСТ Р 59921.6-2021.

Awards

The winner of national award the People Change the Country in the National Entrepreneurial Initiative category.

The award is held on the direct instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin and is organized by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives together with the Roscongress Foundation with the support of VEB.RF, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Defenders of the Fatherland Foundation, and the Russia – Country of Opportunities ANO.