The Ministry of Health has deployed medical services such as remote medical examination and treatment; non-communicable disease management; vaccination, national drug management, management software for commune health stations, pharmaceutical management software... to help change the management and operation of the health sector, while reducing health care costs for people and businesses.
The Ministry has built and put into use the Ministry of Health Administrative Procedures Information System, which provides a version running on mobile devices; Maintain the Medical Publicity Portal, the Medical Equipment Price Publicity Portal 100% of information on drug prices, medical equipment prices, medical supplies prices, diagnostic biological product prices, medical examination and treatment prices, listed prices, bidding prices, information on products in circulation or recalled, results of administrative procedure handling, violations in advertising... are made public on the portal.
Some reporting regimes, indicators for synthesizing periodic reports and statistical reports in the health sector serving the direction and administration of the Ministry of Health are connected, integrated, and share digital data on the national reporting information system; Developing a digital society in health - 100% of health facilities implement cashless payments.
Most hospitals from provincial level and above and non-public hospitals deploy online and remote medical examination and treatment registration; Digital transformation in disease prevention and public health care, creation of electronic health records; 100% of communes deploy commune health station management software.
Regarding digital transformation in medical examination and treatment, up to now, 63 Departments of Health, 63 Social Insurance agencies, 100% of medical examination and treatment facilities nationwide have been connected with the appraisal system of Vietnam Social Insurance; 100% of medical examination and treatment facilities have deployed the hospital information system (HIS); 63/63 provinces and cities have deployed electronic prescriptions.
Regarding citizen identification in medical examination and treatment and data connection, the Ministry of Health said that currently, Vietnam's health insurance coverage rate is 93.35%, with up to 170 million outpatient visits at medical examination and treatment facilities each year, of which health insurance examination and treatment accounts for more than 60% and more than 17 million inpatient treatments and health insurance patients account for 80%.
Health insurance medical examination and treatment data serving settlement and some types of documents serving online public services such as driver's health examination certificates, birth certificates, and death certificates have been regularly connected through the information technology infrastructure of Vietnam Social Security.
Continuing to promote the application of information technology in the field of health and public health care, the Ministry of Health issued Decision No. 1332/QD-BYT dated May 21, 2024 on the issuance of Electronic Health Book for integration on the VneID application.
According to the report of the Center for Health Insurance Assessment and Multi-line Payment announcing the status of data connection, the total number of connected records: 33,820,744, of which 26,660,282 records were sent correctly, accounting for 78.8%. It is expected that in the near future, the Ministry of Health will develop guidelines for medical examination and treatment facilities to deploy Electronic Health Books on the VneID application.
