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The Prime Minister believes that in the future, when remote medical examination and treatment can connect with advanced medical institutions in the world, people will not have to go abroad for medical examination and treatment.
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On the night of September 25, the Ministry of Health officially opened more than 1,000 remote medical examination and treatment points in just 45 days, arriving at the destination 15 days before the original target.
Expansion of connection with remote international clinics
At the ceremony, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc assessed that connecting more than 1,000 remote clinics was an important event, a great step forward for the health sector in health care work for the entire population.
This is an important event of great significance as the Government is actively leading the implementation of the national digital transformation program, with the aim of making Vietnam a pioneering, stable and prosperous digital country. new technologies and models.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc assessed that the remote medical examination and treatment project has a very human significance
The Prime Minister assessed that remote medical examination and treatment is a project of great humanitarian importance to improve the quality of medical care for people in all regions of the country, especially people in remote and mountainous areas. island.
This event is of greater importance when the Covid-19 pandemic has shown no signs of decline in the world, helping people prevent disease.
The Prime Minister said that so far, Vietnam is proud to be the second country that successfully controlled the Covid-19 epidemic with all the drastic measures with anti-epidemic spirit as anti-enemy.
In this war, there have been many shining examples in every industry and field, especially in the medical industry, many doctors and nurses forget to care for patients, not to handle dangers and difficulties, along with These are many models and Good and effective epidemic prevention methods have been proposed and deployed, including the application of information technology to implement remote medical examinations and treatments.
The Prime Minister hopes that doctors and physicians will continue to realize the main point of the project, which is “that the quality of medical examination and treatment is raised and extended”, helping to spread professional knowledge of a higher level. The lower level aims to serve and care for the best health for all people.
The Prime Minister requested that in the coming time, the health sector should expand the network of remote medical examinations and treatments to more than 14,000 medical establishments across the country to achieve universal health coverage, while also aiming to connect with the country. practice.
“I am very happy to learn that the ‘flight path’ of remote medical examination and treatment has been opened to Laos and Cambodia. In the future, higher level hospitals must connect with countries with advanced medical backgrounds to learn from. experience of highly qualified doctors, I believe that in the future people will not have to go abroad for medical examination and treatment ”, emphasized the Prime Minister.
In order for the remote medical examination and treatment project to continue to expand and sustainably, the Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Health to continuously evaluate and extract experiences through remote consultation sessions. At the same time, coordinate with the Ministry of Information and Communication to complete the legal corridor for remote medical recognition and treatment.
The head of the Government also assigned the Ministry of Health to coordinate with the information technology units to accelerate the digital transformation of the health sector, to build and formulate step by step a system of care and prevention of diseases based on digital technology, application comprehensive digital technology in medical examination and treatment facilities, development of technology platforms for the health sector as support for remote medical consultation, intelligent medical management; form a national health database; coordinate in the development and completion of legal corridors, technical standards and regulations to facilitate digital transformation in the health sector.
Hospitals conduct online consultations related to the bridge at the opening ceremony.
“I suggest physicians to promote their wisdom and spirit to actively assist, guide and implement the remote examination and treatment program, step by step improve the quality of medical examination and treatment at the grassroots level to serve People are more deserving people’s beliefs, ”said the Prime Minister.
Also at the ceremony, the Prime Minister spoke directly with the online consultation points of the National Pediatric Hospital, E Hospital, Da Nang Hospital …
The Prime Minister congratulated the entire team of doctors who successfully performed heart surgery in Da Nang. According to the Prime Minister, this “was never thought of a year ago” is a very important advance, helping people to reduce medical costs.
Through the bridge points, the head of Government sent greetings to all health workers nationwide, a force with many achievements in the prevention of Covid-19, protecting the health of people.
Almost 300 cases are difficult to save through telehealth
Professor Nguyen Thanh Long, Acting Minister of Health, said that in less than 2 months, the remote medical examination and treatment project had reached more than 1,000 points, helping lower levels receive ongoing professional support.
Previously, the Ministry of Health coordinated with the Ministry of Information and Communications to complete the project in just 1 week. The completion of a complex project in a short time demonstrates the determination of the Ministry of Health to improve the quality of medical examinations and treatment of people.
“The project not only applies information technology to transform the health sector. This is also an activity to help lower-level people to access quality medical services at the grassroots level, improve the quality of medical examinations and treatment at the grassroots level, bridge the gap between the upper and lower levels, and reduce excessively. hospital burden, “Mr. Long stressed.
Acting Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long
According to the assessment, this platform is equivalent to developed countries, it even has many advantages that allow lower-level doctors to access technology more quickly. This solution is tailor-made according to the treatment protocol of the Ministry of Health, becoming an effective support arm for doctors and people.
So far, 27 central-level hospitals have participated in the project, saving the lives of nearly 300 difficult cases, of which the highest consultation meeting has more than 300 bridging points. The Ministry of Health has also built more than 10,000 specialty remotes.
Previously, the Ministry of Health had a plan for satellite hospitals to partially reduce overcrowding, but severe cases from lower levels still had to be transferred to higher levels or doctors from higher levels had to go directly to lower levels. With telehealth, district doctors can also handle difficult cases on their own, and senior doctors don’t have to travel hundreds of miles.
Also, thanks to telehealth, currently 1 higher-level hospital can provide professional support and training for many lower-level hospitals at the same time, whereas in the past it could only provide 1-1.
With the success of phase 1, the project will soon roll out to expand medical examination and treatment to 14,000 locations throughout Vietnam. With recent advances, the Ministry of Health believes that this goal will soon be implemented in a short time.
The Acting Minister of Health added that in the near future, the Ministry of Health will continue to launch the Vietnam Health Network, a meeting place for all doctors from across the country, a forum to share, learn from each other with the aim to further improve skills to serve people.
Regarding the current biggest problem is the legal corridor in remote medical examination and treatment, Professor Long said that the Ministry is cooperating with the Vietnam Social Security and the Ministry of Finance to build a financial foundation to maintain the system in the long term. in the next time.
In the near future, when 5G becomes widely available in Vietnam, the Ministry of Health believes that the telehealth system will continue to grow, at which point doctors from all over the world will be able to participate in treating patients in Vietnam.
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