eHealth Development in Viet Nam: Current Status, Needs and

Plans 2011-2015

Luong Chi Thanh, MD PhDCentral Health Information Technology Institute (CHITI)

Viet Nam

Asia-Pacific Regional Forum on ICT ApplicationsBangkok, 18-22 May, 2011

SR Vietnam: Basic statistics

Territory: 331,051km2 Population: 86,024 Millions

Urban: 30% Rural: 70%

Population density: 260 Life expectancy(2010): 75 Revenue per capita: 1.200USD Low middle-income status HDI: rank 113/169 CPI: 11,75% (2010 vs. 2009) Total expenditure on health as % of

GDP: 6,6%

Six priority areas of WHO in Vietnam

1) Health policy, legislation and system development; 2) Communicable disease surveillance, prevention and

control; 3) Promotion of a healthy environment and healthy

lifestyles and prevention of noncommunicable diseases;

4) Family and community health and nutrition; 5) HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis; and 6) Partnerships and coordination

MoH

H.Dept in 63 Provinces

>500 H. Divisions at district level

63 centers for PM at provincial and metropolitan level

672 centers for PM and district level

63 centers for HIV/AIDS prevention

29 centers for malaria prevention

63 dept. for food safety and population

24 research institutions

18 medical universities

25 medical colleges

94 centers for continuing educations

Nearly 1.100 hospitals

30 central

400 provincial

30 industrial

10.000 private clinics

10.000 health stations

>170 drugs companies

>39.000 drug stores

9.000 pharmacies

>600 ME trading companies.

>40 ME enterprises

Administrative machinery

Preventive Medicine

TherapeuticResearch and

EducationPharmacy and

Equipment

Ministry of Health of Vietnam

Structure and components for health services

CHITI

Ministry of Information and communications

VN Government

Dep't. of MoH

National Steering committee

MoH Steering committee

Ministry of Health of VietnameHealth management and Implementing

Ministry of Health

Dept. of Science and Training

HospitalsInstitutionsColleges

63 DHS at provinces

at p

rovi

nces

1904

Library in Indochina Medical College

1954

Library in Vietnam Pharmaco-medical School

1964

Central Medical Library, MoH

1979

Central Institute for Medical Science Information (CIMSI), MoH

2009

Central Health Information and Technology Ins(CHITI), MoH

CHITI: root and formation

CHITI: Main functionsICT applications in healthLibrary servicesPublishing

eHealth in Vietnam: current statusGood and ambitious policies

Government Starting from 2000, as first declaration appeared on ICT

application and orientation toward eGov. Most recent: Gov.'s Plan for Vietnam become a strong country

in IT in 2020 In health sector

2006: Guidelines on hospital management softwares building and on IT project creation.

2007: Establishment of steering committee, that renewed in 2010.

2008: Approval for two years 2009-2010 plan for IT application in health.

2009: Order 02/CT-BYT for enhancing IT application in health. 2010: Decision 1191/QĐ-BYT, of organizing structure for IT

services in health sector. 2011: 2011-2015 plan for eHealth

eHealth in Vietnam: current statusInfrastructures favorable

Global Observatory for eHealth, GOe Conducted by WHO in 2008 For Vietnam: ICT Development Index is 3,05 ranking 86/ 114

countries and territories Number of mobile phones: 111,53/100 persons Internet user: 26,55/100 persons

Jan-06 Jan-07 Jan-08 Jan-09 Jan-100

20

40

60

80

100

120

18.89

45.02

78.87

98.22

112.69

eHealth in Vietnam: current statusVietnam white book 2010: Number of MB users

eHealth in Vietnam:the needs

eHealth strategy well defined Enterprise architecture

Capacity building program: Training and educational program in ICT ICT Project Managing and coordinating capacity Improve governance

Health standards To set up the indicator list with defined numerators and

denominators To adapt and issuing the appropriate health informatics

standards

eHealth in Vietnam:the needs

Health databases: To integration of various data resources into a single database

and coordination between various sources. focus on data analysis

Develop the software system for implementing electronic and online health reporting manner at 4 levels of health services.

To set up the central health data repository To formulate a comprehensive privacy and confidentiality act

for sensitive health data Health information platforms

eHealth in Vietnam: Plan 2011-2015

eHealth in Vietnam: Plan 2011-2015

Insuring the appropriate technical infrastructures• Softwares• Network security• Email • Websites• Equipment

Building and managing the health databases To Insuring the human and financial resources Serving for administrative procedures reforming and

insuring the information exchanges by longitudinal and sagittal directions

eHealth in Vietnam: Plan 2011-2015Main objectives

• Telemedicine (2007) Establishing the Call center facilities (mHealth project being conducted with Path finder) Video-conferencing connection between

central and provincial levels of health services• Electronic health records and health

information system (2009)• Health information management in

preventive medicine (2009)

eHealth in Vietnam: Plan 2011-2015Three national projects

Building the standards:• For electronic information exchange• Health functional services• ICT used in health

Establishment of health WAN

eHealth in Vietnam: Plan 2011-2015Group of technological projects

Issuing the appropriate policies Building the whole architecture of health ICT Training and education in IT and ICT For management of human resources in

health Inter-libraries services

eHealth in Vietnam: Plan 2011-2015Group of projects on policies and strategies,

capacity building

National health databases Building database on population and for

managing the mechanic population changes Building database of traditional medicine Health statistics database

eHealth in Vietnam: Plan 2011-2015Group of projects on health databases

Thank you for your attention!

Asia-Pacific Regional Forum on ICT ApplicationsBangkok, 18-22 May, 2011