Unified and synchronized medical data management

(Chinhphu.vn) - The Government has just issued Decree No. 102/2025/ND-CP dated May 13, 2025 regulating the management of medical data. This is an important legal basis for medical data management, creating consistency and synchronization of contents on the creation, collection, connection, sharing, use and management of medical data.

Unified and synchronized medical data management

This Decree regulates digital health data including the construction, development, protection, administration, processing, and use of digital health data; the national health database; and the responsibilities of relevant agencies, organizations, and individuals in the management of digital health data.

Health data reflects information on 24 health areas

The Decree stipulates that digital medical data is digital data reflecting medical fields (medical data).

Regarding the scope of medical data, Article 5 of Decree 102/2025/ND-CP stipulates that medical data reflects information on 24 medical fields, including:

(1) Information on preventive medicine.

(2) Information on environmental protection in the medical field.

(3) Information on medical examination, treatment and rehabilitation.

(4) Information on medical, forensic and forensic psychiatric assessments.

(5) Information on traditional medicine.

(6) Information on pharmaceuticals.

(7) Information about cosmetics.

(8) Information on food safety is under the management of the health sector.

(9) Information on medical equipment.

(10) Information on medical infrastructure.

(11) Population information.

(12) Information on maternal and child health and reproductive health.

(13) Information on health insurance.

(14) Information on communication and health education in medicine.

(15) Information on science and technology in the medical field.

(16) Information on international cooperation in medicine.

(17) Information on information technology applications and digital transformation in healthcare.

(18) Information on health financing.

(19) Information on health inspection.

(20) Information on medical personnel.

(21) Information on medical staff training.

(22) Information on administrative procedures in the health sector.

(23) Information on legal documents, management and administration documents in the health sector.

(24) Information on medical facilities.

Medical databases

A medical database is a collection of medical data that is arranged and organized for access, exploitation, sharing, management and updating.

Decree regulating medical databases:

1. National health database;

2. Specialized medical database includes:

a) The medical database of the Ministry of Health, ministries and ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, political organizations, and socio-political organizations contains information belonging to one or more groups of information specified in Article 5 of this Decree;

b) The medical database of the Provincial People's Committee contains information belonging to one or more information groups specified in Article 5 of this Decree.

3. Medical databases of other levels of government and medical facilities containing medical information and data under their management.

4. Shared medical databases include national medical databases and specialized medical databases.

Building and exploiting medical data must ensure network information security and protect personal data.

The Decree clearly states that medical data is used to serve the work of protecting, caring for, and improving people's health, state management, simplifying administrative procedures, building e-Government, digital Government, and developing the economy and society.

The construction, updating, maintenance, development, protection, administration, processing, exploitation and use of medical data and the National Medical Database must comply with the provisions of this Decree and the laws on data, information technology, electronic transactions, network information security, network security, access to information, protection of personal data; regulations on management, connection and sharing of digital data of state agencies; and legal provisions on construction, updating, maintenance, exploitation and use of national databases.

Regulations on the use and exploitation of medical data

The Decree stipulates that the use of medical data is carried out in accordance with the provisions of Articles 16, 17, 21 of the Data Law and the provisions of this Decree.

Regarding the subjects of exploitation and use of medical data, the Decree stipulates:

1- Party and State agencies, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee and political organizations and socio-political organizations are allowed to exploit and use medical data in accordance with the functions and tasks of such agencies and organizations;

2- Data subjects are exploited and use medical data reflecting on that data subject;

3- Organizations and individuals not specified in 1.2 are allowed to exploit and use medical data as follows: freely exploit and use open medical data; exploit and use personal data with the consent of the data management and maintenance unit and the individual who is the subject of the exploited data; exploit and use other data with the consent of the data management and maintenance unit.

The Decree stipulates that master data in the National Health Database has official usage value, equivalent to paper documents provided by competent authorities.

Master data in the medical database of ministries, branches and localities has official usage value, equivalent to paper documents provided by ministries, branches and localities.

Regarding the use of medical data to deploy electronic health books, the Decree stipulates that medical data on disease prevention, medical examination, treatment, health care and related information are used to deploy electronic health books.

Medical facilities legally operating in Vietnam are responsible for connecting, sharing, and communicating medical data related to the electronic health book integrated on the national identification application.

Medical facilities operating legally in accordance with the provisions of law, Vietnamese citizens or foreigners who have been granted electronic identification accounts are allowed to use the Electronic Health Book integrated on the national identification application to replace related documents in the process of disease prevention, medical examination, treatment, and health care according to regulations.

This Decree comes into force from July 1, 2025.

Phuong Nhi

Source: https://baochinhphu.vn/thong-nhat-dong-bo-trong-quan-ly-du-lieu-y-te-102250514150116217.htm