According to the Plan to deploy electronic medical records at medical examination and treatment facilities in the city in 2026 just issued by the Can Tho City People's Committee, by December 31, 2026, 100% of medical examination and treatment facilities in the area will complete the deployment of electronic medical records.
From January 1, 2027, all hospitals (including public and private hospitals) will not use paper medical records.
This plan aims to ensure the deployment of electronic medical records at medical examination and treatment facilities to synchronously connect and manage people's health data according to the life cycle at all medical examination and treatment facilities nationwide.
Chairman of Can Tho City People's Committee requested to consider the deployment of electronic medical records as a key, important and core task at medical examination and treatment facilities. Heads of agencies and units are directly responsible for this work and prioritize resources, drastically deploy to ensure quality completion of electronic medical records at units according to the direction of the Politburo, the Government, and the Ministry of Health.
Ensure that the hospital information system (HIS), image storage and transmission system (PACS), and diagnostic information system (LIS) are connected and interconnected to serve electronic medical records.
Especially ensuring information security, network security and information security according to the provisions of law when deploying.
According to this Plan, Can Tho City will implement a series of key tasks and solutions such as: completing information technology infrastructure; ensuring information security; deploying electronic medical records at all medical examination and treatment facilities in the city in 2026...
The Department of Health is the unit assigned to preside over and coordinate with departments, agencies and related agencies to advise on organizing the implementation of the plan.
