Asia-Pacific Regional Forum on ICT Applications eHealth Development in Viet Nam: Current Status, Needs and Plans 2011-2015 Asia-Pacific Regional Forum on ICT Applications Bangkok, 18-22 May, 2011 Luong Chi Thanh, MD PhD Central Health Information Technology Institute (CHITI) Viet Nam

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 Health policy, legislation and system development; Communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control; Promotion of a healthy environment and healthy lifestyles and prevention of noncommunicable diseases; Family and community health and nutrition; HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis; and Partnerships and coordination

Administrative machinery Research and Education Pharmacy and Equipment Ministry of Health of Vietnam Structure and components for health services Administrative machinery MoH H.Dept in 63 Provinces >500 H. Divisions at district level Preventive Medicine Therapeutic Research and Education Pharmacy and Equipment 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 Nearly 1.100 hospitals 30 central 400 provincial 30 industrial 10.000 private clinics 10.000 health stations 24 research institutions 18 medical universities 25 medical colleges 94 centers for continuing educations >170 drugs companies >39.000 drug stores 9.000 pharmacies >600 ME trading companies. >40 ME enterprises

Ministry of Health of Vietnam eHealth management and Implementing VN Government National Steering committee Ministry of Health Ministry of Information and communications Dept. of Science and Training MoH Steering committee at provinces CHITI Dep't. of MoH Hospitals Institutions Colleges 63 DHS at provinces

CHITI: root and formation 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: Main functions ICT applications in health Library services Publishing

eHealth in Vietnam: current status Good 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 status Infrastructures 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

eHealth in Vietnam: current status Vietnam 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

eHealth in Vietnam: Plan 2011-2015 Main objectives 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 2011-2015 Three national projects 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 2011-2015 Group of technological projects Building the standards: For electronic information exchange Health functional services ICT used in health Establishment of health WAN

eHealth in Vietnam: Plan 2011-2015 Group of projects on policies and strategies, capacity building 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 2011-2015 Group of projects on health databases National health databases Building database on population and for managing the mechanic population changes Building database of traditional medicine Health statistics database

Thank you for your attention! Asia-Pacific Regional Forum on ICT Applications Bangkok, 18-22 May, 2011