According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, this is an important step forward in the digital transformation roadmap of the health sector, towards the goal of each citizen having a health record managed continuously throughout their life cycle. To form this record, people are encouraged to actively participate in the city's free health check-up program.
According to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tang Chi Thuong, Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, HSSKĐT is not only a convenience on smartphones but also a platform to help people proactively monitor their health, and at the same time support doctors to improve the quality of diagnosis, treatment and long-term health care.
In the initial stage, HSSKĐT data is formed from the results of the Free Health Examination Program for people in Ho Chi Minh City. After each examination, information such as health indicators, test results, diagnosis, risk stratification and doctor's recommendations will be automatically updated to the City Digital Citizen application.
Thanks to that, health check-up results are no longer easily lost paper but become digital data stored for a long time. People can easily look up and track their health developments year by year, serving more effective care and disease prevention.
According to the plan, each resident of Ho Chi Minh City will receive a free health check-up at least once a year. Each check-up not only helps detect early risk factors and potential diseases but also adds data to the electronic health record, helping the health picture of each person become more and more complete.
This is also just the beginning. According to the roadmap of the health sector, by the end of 2026, when the Ho Chi Minh City Health Sector Data Warehouse is completed and put into operation, HSSKĐT will be linked with medical examination and treatment data at hospitals and medical facilities in the area.
At that time, all information about outpatient examination, inpatient treatment, emergency, surgery, prescriptions, test results, diagnostic imaging and many other professional data will be automatically updated into people's health records. Each time they go to the hospital, they will not only solve immediate health problems but also contribute to completing each person's "health diary" throughout their life.
According to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tang Chi Thuong, the greatest value of HSSKĐT does not lie in the storage of data but in the ability to help the health sector shift from a healing model to proactive health care. When there are full data, doctors can continuously monitor people's health developments, detect early risk factors, advise on lifestyle changes and provide timely treatment right from the grassroots health level.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health calls on people to actively participate in the free health check-up program according to the local plan. According to leaders of the health sector, today's health check-up not only helps detect diseases early but is also the first step to form an electronic health record for each person. The sooner people participate, the more complete health data will be, thereby helping to monitor, care for and protect health in the future more effectively, towards the goal of managing universal health according to the life cycle.
