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Remote examination and treatment project enhances health caring
Remote examination and treatment project enhances health caring
Remote medical examination and treatment has been deployed in many hospitals such as Hanoi Medical University Hospital, National Children's Hospital, Hanoi Heart Hospital, etc. to connect to dozens of hospitals in provinces across the country.
The Ministry of Health
is implementing a remote medical examination and treatment project for
2020-2025 to ensure the sustainable development of the health sector.
The system has been
deployed in many hospitals such as Ha Noi Medical University Hospital, National
Pediatric Hospital, Ha Noi Heart Hospital and K (Cancer) Hospital. It is
estimated that when implemented nationwide, it will save the health sector tens
of thousands of billions of đồng each year.
The
remote medical examination and treatment project is one of the focuses of the
Ministry of Health at this time to build an unlimited medical network between
all levels of health care facilities nationwide.
Counselling and support for the
grassroots levels is one of the tasks of training and direction of central and
upper-level hospitals. This is an activity that has been implemented in a
number of medical examination and treatment facilities. However, during the
COVID-19 pandemic and amid emerging diseases, there are new risks, requiring
the health sector to take drastic measures to meet both epidemic prevention and
socio-economical development goals.
The project is built to
help strengthen the professional capacity of the lower level hospitals, to help
them achieve higher quality of treatment.
The project’s goals are that
all people will be consulted, examined, treated, and professionally supported
by doctors from the communal to the central level; and that people can use
higher-quality health care services at lower-level medical establishments.
Staff of medical facilities will receive regular and irregular professional
support from higher-level hospitals based on information technology. This will
contribute to disease prevention, reducing hospital overcrowding at higher
levels, as well as improving the quality, efficiency and results of
medical examination and treatment.
During
the COVID-19 pandemic prevention period, the Ministry of Health has applied
information technology solutions to implement remote treatment counselling and
treatment. The National Steering Committee has established a centre for
management and administration to support professional diagnosis and treatment
of COVID-19 patients.
The centre regularly organises
online conferences and invites leading professors across the country to
consult on serious cases, discuss optimal treatment methods for patients
and share treatment and care experiences. Information technology has
helped bring together the team of leading experts and hospitals closer
together and there is almost no geographic distance between regions and
between the upper and lower levels.
The establishment of such a
management and administration centre marked the development of the medical
examination and treatment system in the trend of applying advanced scientific
and technological achievements in disease treatment, especially with the
COVID-19 pandemic.
This further confirmed the
effectiveness of information technology in implementing remote treatment
and counselling activities. The case of the British pilot, patient 91, is a
typical example. Leading experts regularly held online conferences to find the
best solutions for treatment and thanks to that, the patient made a
miraculous recovery.
The management centre for
diagnosis and treatment of patients COVID-19 was built and developed in the
first days when the outbreak began and had been recognised as one of seven
works that were honoured in the Golden Book of Vietnamese Creativity by the
Central Committee of the Viet Nam Fatherland Front./.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic prevention period, the Ministry of Health has applied information technology solutions to implement remote treatment counselling and treatment.
The centre regularly organises online conferences and invites leading professors across the country to consult on serious cases, discuss optimal treatment methods for patients and share treatment and care experiences.
Information technology has helped bring together the team of leading experts and hospitals closer together and there is almost no geographic distance between regions and between the upper and lower levels.
The COVID-19 professional support management and management centre for patient diagnosis and treatment is a testament to the success of remote consultation and is the model that will be multiplied across the country.
Specifically, we need strict management from information security, transmission lines, technical lists for health insurance billing and regulations to make the consultation opinions at the upper level become a legal basis and necessary for the lower level to implement.
Currently, there are nearly 20 central hospitals able to conduct remote examination and treatment.
Remote health examination and treatment was an effective measure to raise work effectiveness in grassroots levels while reducing the burden on upper-level hospitals.
Two main problems should be resolved, including how grassroots-level hospitals learn skills regularly and when they are in need, and how residents receive health support regularly and when they are in need.
We should push technology into the system to promote its efficiency and quality.
Thanks to remote health examination and treatment, residents in remote areas could access high-quality medical services but expenses for travel and services would be minimised.
The project’s main activities include telemedicine counselling, telemedicine consultation, remote image diagnostic consultation, remote anatomy and surgical consultation, use of apps in medical services and technology transfer.
Currently there are 40 central hospitals nationwide; 492 provincial hospitals; 645 district hospitals; 72 hospitals of each sectors in the society; 275 private hospitals; 32,000 private clinics; and 11,000 medical stations.
To conduct remote health examination and treatment successfully, we need good task forces and detailed concerned policies.
Vietnam is currently undergoing economic and demographic transformations that provide great potential for its healthcare industry.
The healthcare sector in Vietnam has a lot of potential due to the demographic and socioeconomic changes currently underway. Vietnam’s rapid economic development has boosted demand for higher quality and specialized healthcare services, especially among the growing middle class.
With 87 percent of the population currently covered under this scheme according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the government continues to work towards achieving universal healthcare coverage.
The government has also recently set new social insurance, employment insurance, and health insurance contribution rates that apply to both national and expatriate workers and employers.
To prevent overcrowding and ensure that both urban and local patients can access medical services, the government continues to finance the construction of new hospitals.
To help it shoulder the burden of rising healthcare costs, the government is increasingly looking at investment from the private sector and international firms. These changes mean that there will be more business opportunities in the healthcare sector in Vietnam in the upcoming years.
The consultation section focused on clinical consultation, online ultrasound connection, and scanned computed tomography image transmission, among others.
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