Thu Duc hospital in Ho Chi Minh City uses IT in patient registration (Source: Thu Duc Hospital) HCM City, (VNA) - A smart healthcare system that exploits Big Data andartificial intelligence (AI) has been set up by the Ministry of Health toimprove the quality of health examinations and medical treatment.
Each locality in the country is expected to develop a smart healthcare systembased on their own conditions, according to the ministry.
The ministry has issued a set of criteria for IT applications toward smarthealth, according to Tran Quy Tuong, head of Electronic Health Administrationof Vietnam.
Under the criteria, a hospital will be considered “smart” if it uses artificialintelligence and has software to manage information, tests, storage and imagetransmission, electronic health records and kiosks for patients to search forinformation.
HCM City’s City Department of Health has instructed hospitals to draw up a roadmap that will include human resources and capital expenditures for theirfacilities.
They have been also required to develop and contribute to a shared database forthe city’s health sector.
The department plans to develop comprehensive IT applications inadministration, health and treatment at all health facilities in the city.
Patients’ health records will be digitalised under the smart healthcare system.
This will allow patients to more easily find and choose the right specialistsfor their medical care as well as make medical appointments.
The results of patients’ tests will be stored in the database, which, for now,is only accessible to doctors. But in the future, patients will also haveaccess to their personal records.
Health officials can also conduct scientific research through the onlinesystem, and patients can ask for professional advice through hospitals’websites and Facebook pages.
Doctors can also provide assistance to doctors at hospitals in remote areas ifthe latter needs help in treating patient. This aid helps prevent transfer ofpatients to big city hospitals, where overloading often occurs.
The system has allowed doctors access to standard technical procedures,protocols and prescriptions for medicine; shortened the time for administrativeprocedures for health staff and patients; and limited the number of medicalerrors.
In the case of epidemics, management agencies can now access the exact timedata to issue effective forecasts.
The system also contains information on health insurance and otheradministrative matters.
In Hanoi, Bach Mai Hospital is carrying out a general management system for FPTeHospital which registers patients for health examination within only twominutes.
The payment of hospital fees and health insurance has been cut by 30 minutesper patient to three or five minutes.
The hospital admits 9,000 patients each day, 15 times higher than the averagelevel of hospitals in provinces in the country.
Central-level hospitals as well as grassroots hospitals have also begunapplying advanced techniques in patients and health records administration.- VNA
Each locality in the country is expected to develop a smart healthcare systembased on their own conditions, according to the ministry.
The ministry has issued a set of criteria for IT applications toward smarthealth, according to Tran Quy Tuong, head of Electronic Health Administrationof Vietnam.
Under the criteria, a hospital will be considered “smart” if it uses artificialintelligence and has software to manage information, tests, storage and imagetransmission, electronic health records and kiosks for patients to search forinformation.
HCM City’s City Department of Health has instructed hospitals to draw up a roadmap that will include human resources and capital expenditures for theirfacilities.
They have been also required to develop and contribute to a shared database forthe city’s health sector.
The department plans to develop comprehensive IT applications inadministration, health and treatment at all health facilities in the city.
Patients’ health records will be digitalised under the smart healthcare system.
This will allow patients to more easily find and choose the right specialistsfor their medical care as well as make medical appointments.
The results of patients’ tests will be stored in the database, which, for now,is only accessible to doctors. But in the future, patients will also haveaccess to their personal records.
Health officials can also conduct scientific research through the onlinesystem, and patients can ask for professional advice through hospitals’websites and Facebook pages.
Doctors can also provide assistance to doctors at hospitals in remote areas ifthe latter needs help in treating patient. This aid helps prevent transfer ofpatients to big city hospitals, where overloading often occurs.
The system has allowed doctors access to standard technical procedures,protocols and prescriptions for medicine; shortened the time for administrativeprocedures for health staff and patients; and limited the number of medicalerrors.
In the case of epidemics, management agencies can now access the exact timedata to issue effective forecasts.
The system also contains information on health insurance and otheradministrative matters.
In Hanoi, Bach Mai Hospital is carrying out a general management system for FPTeHospital which registers patients for health examination within only twominutes.
The payment of hospital fees and health insurance has been cut by 30 minutesper patient to three or five minutes.
The hospital admits 9,000 patients each day, 15 times higher than the averagelevel of hospitals in provinces in the country.
Central-level hospitals as well as grassroots hospitals have also begunapplying advanced techniques in patients and health records administration.- VNA
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