On September 24, the Can Tho Department of Health coordinated with Hoa Hao Medic Can Tho General Hospital to organize a workshop on "Hospital quality management on patient safety and digital transformation".
Mr. Hoang Quoc Cuong - Director of Can Tho Department of Health - said that in recent times, the city's health sector has made efforts to implement solutions on quality management, patient safety and initially applied digital transformation. To build a smart hospital model, the health sector synchronously deploys solutions: Digital technology infrastructure; Comprehensive digitalization of hospital data, Quality management and data-based decision making; Digital experience of patients; Application of digital technology in expertise and engineering; Orientation of smart hospitals to connect digital platforms...
Since the beginning of 2025, the Can Tho Health Sector Hospital Quality Management Council has had an action plan towards applying information technology in hospital quality inspection and assessment.
Accordingly, including the Google Appsheet application in the scoring criteria and 43 sub-sections according to the Hospital Quality Standards set is a premise for improvement, assessing hospital quality using smartphones and gradually no longer using paper.
After merging 3 localities, the Can Tho Department of Health has actively assessed the current situation and reorganized the entire hospital quality management system, while continuing to validate and implement the remaining goals.
From the beginning of September 2025 to now, Can Tho has had 22/58 hospitals announce the implementation of electronic medical records. It is expected that by September 30, there will be more new orders completed and announced, reaching 100% of medical units with hospital beds to deploy electronic medical records.
According to Ms. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Diep - Vice Chairman of Can Tho City People's Committee, "Hospital quality management on patient safety and digital transformation" is a topic that is both urgent and has long-term significance for the development of the city's health sector and the Mekong Delta region.
Faced with increasingly high requirements, it requires the Can Tho health sector to continue to innovate strongly, with more substantial and sustainable solutions. In that process of innovation, the city's leaders will always accompany the health sector and hospitals, determined to build a safe - modern - integrated health system. Affirming the role of a specialized medical center in the Mekong Delta.
Speaking at the workshop, Dr. Ha Anh Duc - Director of the Department of Medical Examination and Treatment Management, Ministry of Health emphasized that Can Tho is one of the localities that effectively implements "Hospital quality management on patient safety and digital transformation".
In the coming time, the Ministry of Health will organize training, supervision and grant certificates to medical units that meet the standards. The Ministry recommends that qualified units will be linked to service costs, in order to motivate units to strive to meet the standards in this set of criteria. The units will be evaluated periodically, so that quality standards are always guaranteed.
