Ho Chi Minh City: 164 hospitals signed an agreement to build big data for the health sector

164 hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City have signed an agreement to build a centralized data warehouse to serve the management, operation and development of smart healthcare.

In the context of Ho Chi Minh City aiming to build a "smart city - a livable city", the City's health sector identifies digital transformation and data warehouse standardization as the core foundation to improve management efficiency, health care quality and people's satisfaction.

In which, 2 important groups of activities are building electronic medical records at medical examination and treatment facilities and creating, connecting and communicating big data of the Ho Chi Minh City health sector.

With 164 hospitals in the area, including 14 ministerial hospitals, 60 public hospitals in the City, 90 private hospitals... Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health believes that the synchronous implementation of electronic medical records at all hospitals according to the direction of the Prime Minister is truly a huge challenge for the entire health system.

However, electronic medical records are not only a tool to replace paper medical records, but also the key to opening the era of smart healthcare, improving treatment quality, optimizing management, and contributing to building a modern, fair, and transparent healthcare system.

In addition, big data can be considered a “strategic resource” of the healthcare industry in the digital age. If standardized and exploited effectively, medical big data becomes an indispensable “fuel” source to build smart healthcare, helping to improve the quality of healthcare and manage the modern healthcare system.

Therefore, after a period of drastic implementation with the efforts of the entire system, by September 26, the Ho Chi Minh City health sector had achieved encouraging initial results when 153/164 hospitals had deployed electronic medical records, reaching a rate of 93% of the entire system. Particularly, the public hospital sector achieved a rate of 100% according to the roadmap, in the non-public sector, 80/90 hospitals had deployed.

According to the Department of Health, in terms of application scope, up to 64% of public hospitals and 65% of private hospitals have deployed electronic medical records on a hospital-wide scale.

"With these figures, recently, all 164 hospital directors from Ministry and Industry hospitals to City hospitals and non-public hospitals have signed a consensus on building a centralized data warehouse to serve the management, operation and development of smart healthcare," the Department of Health informed.

Through this consensus, hospitals will extract, standardize and provide complete, accurate and timely data sets as required such as medical examination and treatment data, medical human resources, medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, quality management, patient safety, etc.

At the same time, strictly comply with the provisions of law and regulations of the health sector on the confidentiality of medical data, personal information of patients and medical staff; only use data for the purpose of management, operation, research and development of the health sector; do not share with third parties without permission from the Department of Health...

“The signing of this agreement demonstrates the determination of hospital leaders to jointly build and effectively use the data warehouse of the Ho Chi Minh City health sector to bring practical benefits to the people, each hospital and the entire health sector,” said the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health.

Source: https://baodautu.vn/tphcm-164-benh-vien-ky-dong-thuan-xay-dung-du-lieu-lon-cho-nganh-y-te-d397061.html