90% of medical facilities in Nghe An apply IT in medical examination and treatment and health insurance payment

(Baonghean.vn) - On the afternoon of May 6, in Vinh City, a conference was held to review the cooperation between Nghe An Health and VNPT Nghe An on the implementation of the project to apply IT in medical examination and treatment (KCB) and health insurance payment.

Attending the event were comrades: Nguyen Viet Tien - Deputy Minister of Health; Nguyen Minh Hong - Deputy Minister of Information and Communications; Pham Duc Long - General Director of BCVT Group; Le Ngoc Hoa - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and leaders of departments and branches of Nghe An province.

Delegates attending the conference.

Implementing the strategic cooperation agreement on VT - IT for the period 2014 - 2020 between the Provincial People's Committee and VNPT, VNPT Nghe An promotes the construction of VT - IT infrastructure, prepares necessary resources, actively coordinates with sectors to promote IT application, and gradually participates actively in the implementation of e-Government in Nghe An.

To implement the project of applying IT in medical examination and treatment and payment of health insurance, VNPT Nghe An has actively invested in high-speed network infrastructure to medical facilities, at the same time VNPT sponsored the purchase of some equipment, LAN, software installation, data interconnection, data extraction output on medical examination and treatment, using VNPT HIS software... According to the project, in the pilot phase (from October 1 - October 30, 2015) and expansion (December 1, 2015), Nghe An Health and VNPT Nghe An cooperated on the implementation of the project of applying IT in medical examination and treatment and payment of health insurance at 450 medical facilities (including 2 provincial medical facilities, 9 district medical facilities and 439 commune medical facilities (accounting for 90% of the total number of medical facilities in the province). Thanks to that, timely response to medical examination and treatment at medical facilities (every day at the district level there are 1,566 people and at the commune level is 5,502 people) and health insurance payment.

The leaders of the Department of Health and VNPT awarded and presented computers (worth 20 million VND/set) to 3 provincial and district hospitals (Rehabilitation Hospital, Quy Chau Hospital and Nam Dan Hospital).

Speaking at the conference, leaders of ministries, branches of VNPT and Nghe An province acknowledged and highly appreciated the cooperation results between Nghe An Health and VNPT Nghe An on the implementation of the project of applying IT in medical examination and treatment and payment of health insurance in Nghe An, and emphasized: In the coming time, relevant levels and branches will continue to cooperate in investing in developing telecommunications infrastructure - Information technology to ensure the requirements of the project. Complete software and regulations to officially operate the VNPT HIS system. Continue to connect with other software.

Promote the application of IT in medical examination and treatment management and health insurance payment to contribute to improving the quality of medical examination and treatment services, improving the quality of medical examination and treatment, and serving people's health care.

Health Department leaders giveawarded Certificates of Merit to 23 outstanding commune health stations.

At the conference, leaders of the Department of Health and VNPT awarded and presented computers to 3 provincial and district hospitals (Rehabilitation Hospital, Quy Chau Hospital, Nam Dan Hospital). The Department of Health awarded Certificates of Merit to 23 outstanding commune health stations.

Hoang Vinh