Vinh City General Hospital: Won First Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation in Nghe An Province in 2020

"Intra-hospital and inter-hospital red alert system in emergency care of critically ill patients and serious security incidents" by Doctor CKII Nguyen Hong Truong and colleagues (Vinh City General Hospital) won the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation in Nghe An Province in 2020. Photo: PV

Based on the practical limitations of the red alert system in previous patient emergency care,Vinh City General Hospitaldetermined to implement the initiative to improve the technical system of internal and inter-hospital red alert software in patient emergency and security incidents... This is a project that has been highly appreciated by the Professional Council and has been effectively applied at the Hospital since the beginning of 2019; contributing to reducing the risk of death, the risk of leaving sequelae and injuries to patients; havinghigh applicabilityin medical facilities.

The red alert software system for internal and inter-hospital patients in emergency care and security incidents is built based on the coordination process for emergency care of critical trauma cases that require coordination of many specialties in the hospital. The goal of the red alert software system is: the fastest information to departments, doctors, medical staff in internal and inter-hospital settings to optimize resources and "golden" time to save the lives of critically ill patients.

Vinh City General Hospital applies the internal and inter-hospital red alert software system in emergency care for patients. Photo: PV

This system has outstanding advantages: When departments call, the screen will clearly display which department is calling with a department alarm light (the old system of hospitals only displays department codes in numbers, not clearly displaying the department name); The entire call history, whether the doctor confirmed the call or not, will be saved on the server for extraction when needed (in case the doctor intentionally did not answer the phone even though he received the call).

The system can select each department group or select all departments/rooms like the current red alert system, pressing one button will run the entire system (wasting time and unnecessary); The software connects to the Smartphone at any time with or without internet, if the phone does not have internet, after 20 seconds it will automatically call the registered doctor's phone number.

With the conventional red alert system, it is not possible to deploy inter-hospital red alerts but only activate inter-hospital red alerts by calling other hospitals. The internal and inter-hospital red alert software system in patient emergency and security incidents at Vinh City General Hospital has implemented inter-hospital red alerts similar to internal red alerts.

In addition, this smart system also allows security incidents and fire incidents to be reported to security and fire prevention agencies as quickly as possible...

Currently, this smart system has been deployed in 27 departments and rooms and the application has been installed on the smartphones of leaders, doctors, nurses and medical staff in the hospital. Photo: PV

“The internal and inter-hospital red alert software system for emergency care of critically ill patients and serious security incidents at Vinh City General Hospital was researched, built and deployed from the beginning of 2019, and on September 1, 2019, it was officially put into use throughout the hospital. This system has now been deployed in 27 departments and rooms and the application has been installed on the smartphones of leaders, doctors, nurses, and nurses in the hospital to serve professional work... With the results of the implementation, the Hospital hopes that the Department of Health and the Provincial Police will soon have a policy to widely deploy this smart system at medical examination and treatment facilities throughout the province; agree on the policy to build and promulgate coordination regulations between hospitals and security agencies in handling security and order incidents”.

Doctor CKII Nguyen Hong Truong - Party Secretary, Director of Vinh City General Hospital

At the awards ceremonyScientific and technological innovationand the Talent Searchstart-upIn the 2020 Innovation Award, Vinh City General Hospital was also awarded two third prizes for the projects "Research on the application of retrograde endoscopic surgery to lithotripsy with a flexible endoscope" and "Application of biometrics to electronic medical records".

This award aims to honor scientists, researchers, intellectuals and workers who have researched and applied science and technology, and technical innovations with high scientific value and socio-economic efficiency, which have been applied in practice in Nghe An province.

Vinh General Hospital is a Grade II General Hospital, with a planned structure of 500 beds, under the Nghe An Department of Health; the organizational structure includes 27 departments, rooms and 1 center.

In today's developing environment, the number of patients is increasing and there are many complicated and difficult cases. In many cases, the processing time as well as the quick response of the medical team and doctors are the decisive factors for the patient's life. In the fight against "death" to save the patient's life, the "red alert" process is an extremely necessary system, playing an extremely important role.

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