Technology 4.0 and the transformation of the healthcare industry

In 2018, the health sector made breakthroughs in the widespread application of information technology in health insurance fund management, completing the connection of agencies. drug supplier, personal electronic health record management, personal vaccination system management…

IT application, towards smart healthcare

The application of information technology (IT) in health protection, care and improvement in Vietnam has made an important development, laying the foundation. building a smart healthcare with three main pillars: disease prevention, smart healthcare, smart medical examination and treatment, and smart health administration, people initially benefit from IT achievements in health care activities. medical action.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said that the Ministry of Health has built and gradually formed a legal corridor on medical IT application. In particular, there is a breakthrough in the application of IT in hospitals with nearly 100% of hospitals having hospital information system software, initially deploying image transmission and storage software (PACS). .

“99.5% of hospitals have connected and linked health insurance medical examination and treatment data with health insurance assessment and payment agencies , serving medical examination and treatment of electronic health insurance", said the Minister.

Forming a preventive health management information system, deploying expanded vaccination software across the country, so far there are 11,183 (99%) clinics economic; 2,261 medical examination and treatment facilities and vaccination services used the system to manage individual vaccination status. More than 6.2 million immunizations have been administered.

“We are initially forming a telemedicine network, contributing to improving the quality of medical examination and treatment at lower levels, mountainous and difficult areas", Ministry of Health. the chief said.

In 2018, the Ministry of Health also successfully and effectively deployed online public services, connected the National Single Window, implemented the Single Window. National Door and ASEAN Single Window. Electronic document management and administration system, interconnected with the Government Office, more than 20 ministries/sectors and provincial/city People's Committees, publicizing the results of administrative procedures on the Electronic Portal Government.

Forming an electronic health record system by the end of 2019

Application of IT in hospital management has been a concern of the medical industry for many years and has been gradually realized in recent years. Vietnam currently applies hospital management software, electronic medical records, telemedicine, electronic queuing, electronic card for hospital fee payment, helping the hospital management process be transparent. , reduce administrative procedures, reduce time for medical examination and treatment, reduce waiting time for examination, reduce waiting time for medicine, reduce time for discharge procedures…. "Thanks to that, work efficiency is higher, people are more satisfied", said the Minister.

Promoting the application of information technology in the health sector creates many opportunities and challenges for the medical industry. In 2019, the Ministry of Health said that it will promote the construction of a shared directory database associated with identifiers, which serves as the foundation for information exchange and integration between systems in health facilities. medical examination and treatment facilities so that hospitals can proactively improve their hospital information systems.

One ​​of the important contents coming here is urgently implemented by the Ministry of Health is to direct hospitals to deploy electronic medical records to connect with the application software electronic health; deploying operation management software of commune health stations connecting with electronic health record system, gradually reducing paperwork at commune/ward/township health stations, contributing to improving quality primary health care services, reducing overload for upline.

When an electronic health book is available to each citizen, every time they receive medical examination and treatment, people have an electronic health record that can be moved smoothly in the system In healthcare, information about patients' health is provided to doctors quickly and accurately, facilitating the diagnosis and treatment of patients, helping them receive comprehensive and continuous health care. Early detection of the disease, timely treatment when the disease is still at an early stage brings high treatment efficiency and reduces the cost of medical examination and treatment for each person.

Implementing Resolution No. 20-NQ/TU, up to now, the Ministry of Health has built an electronic health record (EHR) software using data sources. households participating in health insurance of Vietnam Social Insurance to create