Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyễn Hoàng Phương, Director of Cabinet

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyễn Hoàng Phương,
Director of Cabinet, Steering Commitee of IT of application, MOH of Vietnam
Deputy Director (IT responsible), Dept of Science and Training, MOH of Vietnam
Email: nhphuong2008@gmail.com, Mob. (+84) 904128118
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CONTENTS
I. Current situation of IT application in MOH of
Vietnam
II. VIETNAM 2011 – 2015 MASTER PLAN FOR
eHEALTH
III. HOW TO COLLABORATE WITH AeHIN ?
IV. CONCLUSIONS
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. Health System
Organization system MOH of Vietnam consits:
- State Administration systems consists of MOH, 63 Health Provincial Depts and
more 500 district depts.
- Medical Service System: more 1100 hospitals. Among them there are more 30
centtral hospitals, 400 provincial hospitals, more 600 district hospitals, more 100
private hospitals and some thausands of private clinics.
- Preventive health system have about 10 central research institutes, more 100
provincial preventive health centers, more 700 dist. Health centers and more 10.
000 commune health stations.
- Research and training system: 30 research institutions, 20 medical Universites,
more 30 medical colleges and about medical training institutions.
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- Pharmacy and medical equipments consits of more 5.000 companies, more
10. 000 pharmacy houses and business units of medical eqquipments.
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2. IT organization structure.
  In MOH:
  - MOH has Steering Commitee of IT of medical sector.
  - Department of Science and Training (DST) has responsibility
about IT state management for MOH.
  - MOH Office takes part of IT for activities in MOH office.
  - CHITI
  - Hospitals have their IT department or IT groups.
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MOH is establishing the Administration of IT of MOH in combining
of a IT group of DST and CHITI.
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3. IT applications
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In most institutions of MOH, IT applications for their activities are applied, but in
different levels.
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In MOH: LAN, MOH portal, e-office, some public administration services.
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In HPDs: LAN, Website, some public administration services
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In Hospitals: 100% hospitals of MOH having HIS but in different level,
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In Medical Universities: not all university using have e-learning.
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Health Centers: they use PCs, some HCs have Website,..
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Some main problems facing us.
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1) IT investment is not enough.
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2) eHealth and data standardization are under development.
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3) The unique patient ID is not developed.
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4) There are no enterprise architecture of Health Information Systems.
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5) Lack of HIT human resource.
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II. VIETNAM 2011 – 2015 MASTER PLAN FOR eHEALTH –
Some main contents
1.  IT Infrastructure
- Developing medical database of MOH.
- Developing WAN to link hospitals, HPDs.
- Developing IT infrastructure, portal for public administration service.
- Developing data integrated center, information protection...
- Improving LANs in Hospitals and developing hospital database.
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2. HIT application in MOH’s institutions
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- Developing standards for health information, standard for procedures of
health activities using IT.
- Developing legislation for e-health.
- Developing database for training and health human resource management.
- Developing database for traditional medicine.
- Developing a total hospital information system using for many hospitals,
especially, for district level.
- Developing a management, operation system of MOH.
- Applying telemedicine in consultation, operation and distance learning.
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- Project: EMRs and HISs.
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- Developing a system for drug, cosmestic management.
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- Developing a system for food information management.
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- Appying IT in personel record management of staffs of MOH.
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- Developing common business procedures for hospitals in Vietnam.
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- Developing health information standards for exchange and sharing data
between hospitals and with MOH.
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II. VIETNAM 2011 – 2015 MASTER PLAN FOR eHEALTH – Some main
contents
3. HIT application for citizen and business companies
At least, 13 public administration services must be applied, for example:
1. Issuing a permission certificate for importing medical equipments.
2. Registration of clinical drug trial.
3. Issuing the certification of food qualification.
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4. IT Human resource
  - Training IT for managers of medical units, hospitals.
  - Training HIT for CIO and IT staffs
  - Establishing Department of medical informatics in medical universities in
Hanoi, HCM cities.
  - Establishing IT departments/group at hospitals, HPDs.
  - Training networking security
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- Organizing study tours to learn experiences on applying IT.
  - Developing curriculum on medical informatics for medical universities.
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There are projects, including
- 5 projects about infrastructure
- 16 projects about HIT application in
government institutions
- 14 projects about public administration
services.
- 2 projects about IT human resource
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Some priorities of IT application/works of MOH
1. IT organizations in medical sector: Amin of IT – MOH, IT Depts in hospitals, HPDs..
2. Guarantee IT capacity for medical institutions of medical sector.
3. Propose priority policy, salary for IT staffs.
4. Some priority projects:
- EMR and HIS
- Remote medical service
-  Medical database
-  HMIS
-  IT standardization and interoperability
-  Unique patient ID
-  IT application for local health.
-  Patient management using smartcard
-  Public administration services in MOH and HPDs.
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5. Guarantee the budget for IT applications.
6. Developing and issuing legislation/guideline for IT application in medical
sector.
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7. Developing IT human resource.
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8. International cooperation
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Determining common interests between MOH of VietNam and
AeHIN to collaborate. For example:
- The
Unique patient ID.
- Health Data Standardization and Interoperability
- HIE engine
- Telemedicine for rural area
-  HMIS/HSIS
- Study tour to learn experiences in IT application with AeHIN countries.
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Develop some join AeHIN projects under WHO s coordination
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The cooperation in the frame of AeHIN is
important to push IT development in every
country and the Region.
To save time and budget, it needs to develop
some software for common use for may
countries in the region applying Web based,
open source technology.
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THANK YOU !
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