Efforts to build a smart medical system

Determining digital transformation as a particularly important task to improve the quality of treatment and health care for the people, in recent years, the Provincial Health sector has directed its affiliated units to promote the application of technology digital technology in management and medical examination and treatment activities from the province to the grassroots, focusing on developing digital government and digital society associated with the goal of building smart and modern healthcare to create favorable conditions to help people have access to quality health services.

Doctors at Doan Hung District Medical Center apply digital technology in urinary tract lithotripsy surgery.

Doan Hung District Medical Center has recently mobilized resources to invest in facilities and upgrade the system’s information technology infrastructure and equipment to serve medical examination and treatment, with approximately 450 people coming for medical examination and treatment every day and 300 regular inpatients. In April 2022, the hospital implemented non-cash payment of hospital fees via ATM card, POS, QR code, and, beginning July 2022, online medical examination registration.

Not only in Doan Hung, district medical centers are also transforming to keep pace with the 4.0 trend to better meet the people’s health care needs. At Yen Lap District Medical Center, along with the application of modern technologies such as: Human resource management, national interconnected prescription management, non-cash payment, automatic order number retrieval and registration. Sign up for online medical examination and treatment..., the unit has put into use the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system since the beginning of 2022 with a digitization rate of nearly 100% of records, contributing to reforming the examination and treatment process diseases and shorten administrative procedure time. In inpatient treatment, EMR also helps patients find information conveniently, accurately and quickly anytime, anywhere through an internet connection. Thereby, bringing practical benefits, reducing troubles and meeting people’s increasing health care needs.

Medical staff assist patients in getting automatic medical examination numbers.

Doctor Le Cong Binh - Director of the District Medical Center said: "Towards the goal of building a smart medical system to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment and meet the needs of the people, we have Digitize most documents, professional papers, medical records, and documents serving medical examination and treatment; deploy digital signature for 100% of medical staff and staff simultaneously Invest in modern equipment to serve medical examination, treatment and data synchronization, helping people not have to bring health insurance cards when coming for examination but only need to bring citizen identification cards. Next time, the Center will focus on innovating medical examination, treatment and patient care activities through expertise and application of information technology in management and professional activities to help people benefit and access services specialized and modern medical services, contributing to improving the quality of people’s health care."

Yen Lap District Medical Center applies electronic medical records in medical examination and treatment for people.

Building smart healthcare is determined to be a long, multi-phase roadmap, each phase needs to have specific goals. In recent years, the digital transformation process has been promoted by the provincial health sector. In particular, many hospitals and medical centers have applied smart healthcare in administration such as: Scheduling medical examinations by phone, taking automatic numbers, deploying non-cash payments... which have helped reduce time waiting time for patients. In addition, the successful application of hospital management software systems (HIS), electronic medical record software (EMR), laboratory information management system (LIS), and archival information system image acquisition and storage (PACS), electronic prescription management system, remote medical examination and treatment... are seamlessly connected together on an information technology platform to create synchronization, accuracy and science in all stages and processes, contributing to improving professional quality and efficiency of management and administration.

Promoting the achieved results, the provincial health sector will continue to synchronously deploy solutions to promote digital transformation, aiming to build a smart, modern, quality and effective health system to Gradually apply digital technology in most activities and services of the industry. Thereby, forming a smart medical platform with smart disease prevention; smart medical examination and treatment and smart medical management.

Quoc Dai