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The current situation in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 has demonstrated that the most affected category of citizens (in terms of morbidity and mortality) around the world are healthcare workers. High workloads, the risk of infection and death from coronavirus against the background of sometimes insufficient protection, both physically and socially, leads to the fact that the risks of an increase in the outflow of medical workers from the industry and an increase in the personnel shortage. Most of the states agreed to provide medical workers with a wide range of benefits, guarantees and compensations. At the same time, measures to support medical workers are important not only in themselves, but also as a tool for managing personnel in the industry. This publication examines the experience of the Russian Federation in state support for persons associated with the treatment of coronavirus infection, including in comparison with the experience of some other countries. An assessment of the effectiveness and feasibility of using various measures to support medical workers is given and the conclusion is substantiated that in order to improve the staffing of health care to improve the quality of provided medical services, it is necessary, if possible, to "monetize" benefits and guarantees. Extensive opportunities for this are opened on the basis of industrial and manufacturing engineering of digital healthcare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to develop a program-target strategy of quality management in Industry 4.0 and formation of cognitive economy based on industrial and manufacturing engineering in the Russian Federation and countries of the EU. Originality of this research consists in the following. Firstly, the authors specify the essence, distinguish and determine the elements of quality in Industry 4.0, offer estimate indicators and use them to perform a polycriterial evaluation of quality in Industry 4.0, and determine and substantiate the sources of its increase in the Russian Federation and countries of the EU. Secondly, the authors study and prove the strong influence of the factors of industrial and manufacturing engineering on successes in formation of cognitive economy in the Russian Federation and countries of the EU and determine the perspectives of optimizing the influence of these factors of in the interests of formation of cognitive economy. Thirdly, the specifics of causal connections of quality management in Industry 4.0 in countries of Western and Eastern Europe are determined, due to which this research has high empirical value, for its allows developing the specific programs of development of Industry 4.0 in countries of Europe in view of their specific features. Fourthly, the issues of quality management in Industry 4.0 and formation of cognitive economy based on industrial and manufacturing engineering are studied consistently, due to which a general program-target strategy for the Russian Federation and countries of the EU is developed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]