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Upgraded electronic system for TB information management launched

The Central Lung Hospital and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on November 30 launched the upgraded Vietnam Tuberculosis (TB) information management electronic system (Vitimes).
Upgraded electronic system for TB information management launched ảnh 1At the launching ceremony (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Central Lung Hospital and theUS Agency for International Development (USAID) on November 30 launched the upgradedVietnam Tuberculosis (TB) information management electronic system (Vitimes).

According to Dr. Dinh Van Luong, Director of the CentralLung Hospital, the Vitimes, which was developed by the National TB Programme in2010, has been run in the 63 cities and provinces nationwide as well as more than900 medical facilities at the district level.

Its main function is to manage important reports and data ofthe National TB Programme, serving monitoring, supervision, scientific research,planning, and decision making.

However, the data on Vitimes is mainly about susceptible TBwith a shortage of components on drug-resistant TB, latent TB, contactmanagement as well as a lack of connection and data exchange with other systemssuch as those of the Vietnam Social Security, hospital management software(HIS), electronic information system of the HIV Programme or test datamanagement software of the National TB Programme, said Luong.

Since 2019, the USAID has worked with the National TB Programme to support the Vietnamese Governmentto detect, treat and detect, report people with undetected TB in the community,with the upgrading of the Vitimes to supervise the National TB Programme in acomprehensive manner.

The upgraded Vitimes is a comprehensive electronic information system on TB,fully integrated with subsystems, including data modules, detection management,treatment of susceptible TB, drug-resistant TB and latent TB.

The upgrading of the system helps the National TB Programme standardisethe management and monitoring system, making it ready to exchange data withmany other systems at present and in the future, facilitating the management,provision and analysis of data, thus ensuring that decisions are made in a moretimely and accurate way.

USAID's Mission Director for Vietnam Aler Grubbs said thatin the future, the agency and the National TB Programme will continue to teamup to ensure that all levels in the TB prevention and control system from thecentral level to provinces, districts and communes have sufficient capacity toreach vulnerable community groups and provide high-quality healthcare servicesto the needy.

This is also USAID's commitment to support Vietnam inmaintaining TB control, aiming to reduce the TB incidence rate by 90% and theTB fatality rate by 95% compared to 2015, ensuring that no households have to bearthe costs of disasters caused by TB, moving towards the goal of ending TB by2035./.
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