Concluding the meeting on digital transformation on the afternoon of February 6, Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested that digital transformation must be closely linked with the implementation of the revolution in streamlining the apparatus and improving the quality of civil servants and public employees.
Assigning tasks for the coming time, the Prime Minister requested that before February 15, the merger of the Government's committees and steering committees on digital transformation, administrative reform, and Project 06 be completed into the Government's Steering Committee on science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation headed by the Prime Minister.
The head of the Government requires ministers, heads of sectors, and chairmen of provincial and municipal People's Committees to have high political determination, set an example, and be pioneers in unifying awareness, innovating thinking, and in methodology in digital transformation.
By June 2025, all leaders of ministries, branches, and provincial People's Committees must direct, operate, and process work online and use digital signatures. By the end of 2025, all officials and civil servants at commune, district, and provincial levels must process work online and use digital signatures.
The Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Finance to take the lead and pioneer in implementing digital transformation in tax management and tax collection, especially in the fields of tourism and food and beverage business, applying electronic invoices generated from cash registers, to be completed in the first 6 months of 2025.
Along with that, the Ministry of Health will complete the work to deploy electronic medical records in the first 6 months of 2025; deploy electronic medical records in all hospitals nationwide in September 2025.
The Ministry of Health coordinated with the Ministry of Public Security and relevant units to pilot the Medical Data Coordination System at Bach Mai Hospital with medical facilities in Bac Ninh and Thai Nguyen provinces; Cho Ray Hospital with medical facilities in Binh Duong and An Giang provinces and qualified pharmacies.
The Ministry of Education and Training will build data on students from grades 1 to 12, to be completed in the first 6 months of 2025. The Ministry of Justice will urgently complete the construction of a criminal record database before transferring it to the Ministry of Public Security. The State Bank will continue to focus on promoting digital services.
Develop a digital transformation project for businesses, especially small and medium enterprises, cooperatives, and 5 million business households. At the same time, develop a set of criteria to assess the level of digital transformation of businesses. Promote the implementation of electronic household tax collection.
Accelerate the reduction and elimination of administrative procedures; change the state from "asking - giving" to provide public services to "proactive" state of serving and providing public services to people and businesses. In 2025, 100% of airports, ports, and border gates will apply biometric technology and the VneID application platform.
Promote decentralization and authorization of administrative procedure settlement (as the model that Hanoi has implemented). Apply a zero-fee policy to attract people to use online public services.
Strive to achieve 80% of public services being online by the end of 2025, 40% of the adult population using online public services, and 100% of administrative procedure settlement records being assigned personal identification.
Develop a set of indicators to assess the satisfaction level of people and businesses, through VNeID in the first quarter of 2025. Develop a set of indicators to assess the "health" of businesses, to be completed in June 2025.
