The application of many new technologies such as artificial intelligence AI, cloud computing, Big Data analysis, or IoT connection... has helped build many breakthrough solutions in the healthcare industry.
Support platform for remote medical examination and treatment (Telehealth)
In 2020, the health sector completed the connection and opened 1,000 points under the Project of Telemedicine for 2020-2025, reaching the finish line 15 days before. Up to now, the system has connected more than 1,200 medical facilities and held nearly 300 consultation sessions. This is a rapid revolution in medical examination and treatment, creating a flat world in healthcare.
With Telehealth, all health facilities, especially at the district level, receive continuous professional support; All citizens receive medical support as often and when needed. The system has been deployed from Muong Nhe to Co To, remote areas, island borders, with the participation of 27 upper-level hospitals, including 4 special-class hospitals, helping to improve the quality of medical care. Telehealth through telehealth is increasingly enhanced and secured.
The system supports doctors and nurses in operating surgeries hundreds of kilometers away, and with the application of AI technology, the system also helps doctors in diagnosing images and avoiding errors.
Lifetime vaccination management by personal code
In order to prevent parents from missing their children's vaccination schedule, and at the same time to build a lifelong vaccination record management system, the Ministry of Health has built and launched a national immunization management system and Immunization Book.
Currently, the system has been deployed to nearly 14,000 vaccination facilities nationwide, managing more than 22 million vaccination subjects by unique ID number, vaccination history, vaccine supplies inventory, and lifetime immunization record. The system is built on a cloud computing platform, safe and secure, with real-time visual data.
In addition to managing vaccinations, the system also helps the health sector evaluate each locality so that there can be forecasts and predictions about vaccines as well as possible disease patterns related to vaccines.
Through the rapid and successful nationwide implementation, the health sector is expected to move away from using paper vaccination records and paper reports in vaccination. The National Immunization Management System is expected to better protect children from disease, moving towards a lifelong health management record.
Medical public portal
This is the official channel for people and businesses to look up information about drug prices, medical equipment prices, medical supplies prices, diagnostic biological prices, medical examination and treatment prices, list prices, auction prices, tenders, information about products in circulation or recalled, results of handling administrative procedures, violations in advertising, etc.
In just 15 days of construction and implementation, the Public Portal has had data of 62,438 pharmaceutical products, 28,000 medical equipment and supplies, 93,253 bidding results, and more than 1,400 medical facilities publicizing service prices.
Through the Health Publication Portal, state management agencies can quickly update industry data, thereby having a basis to promptly develop management mechanisms and policies suitable to the current situation. It also provides tools for businesses to look up product price information, compare and contrast with other businesses to have a suitable business strategy, improve competitive quality. In particular, the Health Publication Portal will be an effective tool for people to become supervisors for the health sector; Know the exact price information of medical products and services.
Vietnam Medical Connection Network
Officially opened by the Ministry of Health on December 30, 2020, the Vietnam Health Network is an intranet of the health sector, connecting more than 500,000 health workers nationwide, helping doctors support professionally exchanged subjects, share and interact in diagnosis, imaging, and treatment.
As the industry's first social network, it has both advantages of social networks such as rapid spread, connection, and deep influence, while limiting the shortcomings of other mass social networks.
For the first time, all medical staff across the country have tools to exchange, study together, and interact with heads of all levels directly via smartphones.
Personal health records
Considered as the "heart" of the Digital Transformation of the healthcare industry, the core of the Smart Health Ecosystem, the Personal Health Record System helps to connect all medical data, manage health data people's health for life, helping doctors diagnose more accurately.
On December 30, 2020, the Ministry of Health officially opened the system. At the same time, 98 million health records were established by the Ministry of Health, Social Insurance, and Viettel in 5 months to prepare for paperless medical examination and treatment, towards the Government's long-term goal of health coverage to take care of the entire population's health, develop the grassroots medical system, so that each citizen has a smart assistant about health.
Through the implementation of the system, an overall model of interconnection between health systems will be formed, meeting the needs of comprehensive and comprehensive management of a person's health from birth to death. The system helps to link people's health data from medical examination and treatment facilities at all levels, patients do not have to store, carry many records and perform many unnecessary repetitive indications; Connecting medical facilities, building a database of medical examination and treatment for the entire population; support the Department of Health of provinces and cities to comprehensively manage health programs in the area
The system is applied artificial intelligence, Bigdata in management, data analysis to support decision making, health policy development; Blockchain technologies in health data security.
Electronic medical declaration form
This is a "just-in-time technology shield in the heart of the epidemic" that was completed within 48 hours. The system will be officially deployed from 6 am on March 7 nationwide with all passengers entering Vietnam, including Vietnamese and foreigners.
The system was deployed in a timely manner for the health, tourism, and transport sectors to manage not only epidemics at entry and exit points, domestic movement, and the declaration of the entire population. Through the system, the management agencies can accurately capture the number of people on entry and exit, manage suspected isolated cases, make statistics, and report the fastest and most accurate situation to the agency. local health authorities.
Currently, the system has managed more than 14 million electronic declarations, including border gate declarations, domestic movement declarations, and people's health declarations.
Portal and app “Vietnam Health”
Portal system and App provide official information, instant updates on epidemic developments and self-assessment tools, report suspected cases to send to health authorities to review and provide recommendations. and self-protection instructions. After 6 days of launch, the website reached more than 42 million visits, the App reached more than 1.6 million downloads.
Digitizing the pharmaceutical industry
Since 2018, the Drug Administration of Vietnam has built, connected, and successfully linked 13 online public services with the National Single Window, providing 93 online public services at level 4 serving people and businesses. Enterprises (reaching 100%) are integrated into the Public Service Portal of the Ministry of Health to help reduce the time to send and receive dossiers, increase publicity and transparency, and help businesses easily track the progress of dossier processing.
Connecting nationwide drug supply facilities
With the introduction of the pharmacy database system and the implementation of connecting drug supply establishments nationwide from August 2018, after only 12 months, more than 61,000 pharmacies, drugstores, and drug cabinets have been connected across the country. nationwide, connecting 63/63 provinces and cities, managing more than 7.2 million prescriptions, 26.7 million sales invoices, nearly 4 million import and export vouchers, supporting drug quality control. The information management system of tablets from the time of production, import to the hands of consumers, ensuring the origin and origin, against the situation of counterfeit drugs, poor quality drugs, drugs of unknown origin.
In 2020, before the outbreak of the epidemic, drug management software was built to serve the epidemic prevention and control so that drug manufacturers and importers continuously report on export, import, and inventory as well as production plans. import and export of drugs recommended for use in the guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of Covid-19 with 48 active ingredients.
Practicing certificate information management system
Information management system for practice certificates, 100% supervision of the issuance of pharmacy practice certificates, ensuring that the information of the certificate is not duplicated. Nearly 110,000 information on pharmacy practice certificates at over 61,000 business establishments (retail) and 4,000 business establishments (wholesale, production, and import) from 2009 to now are closely monitored.
Most of the above 10 technology solutions will be implemented in 2020, demonstrating the strong determination to change with the digital transformation of the healthcare industry, with drastic management and enthusiasm in implementation. Accompanying many digital transformation projects of the healthcare industry, Mr. Khong Van Dong, Director of the Digital Health Solutions Center, Viettel Enterprise Solutions Corporation said: “80% of successful projects are successful in transformation projects. Transforming the medical profession comes from important non-technological transformations of physicians. Companies providing technology solutions like Viettel only contribute the remaining 20% with technical solutions. Of course, the successful preparation and testing of 4.0 technology solutions before collaborating with doctors and nurses to implement the project will be an important factor for successful digital transformation."
