IT identified as a key to improving health services in Vietnam
16-Jan-15, Vietnam News
The Ministry of Health has strengthened efforts to improve healthcare services by working on key issues, including IT, medical equipment management and transparency.
Deputy director of the ministry's Information Technology Department, Nguyen Hoang Phuong, said at a conference on IT application in the healthcare sector yesterday that IT was key to improving healthcare services and simplifying related administrative procedures.
The ministry had applied IT to organise online conferences, diagnosis, treatment and consultation, he said. He reported that all national hospitals had employed the use of IT, but provincial and district hospitals trailed behind. Information connections between hospitals using IT remained limited.