The time to issue health insurance cards for children under 6 years old will be shortened to 24 hours.

On the morning of February 25, the Provincial People's Committee coordinated with the Department of Justice and the Provincial Social Insurance to organize a conference to deploy the connection of birth registration data and issuance of health insurance cards for children under 6 years old in the province.

Attending were representatives of the Provincial Social Insurance, the Department of Justice and the Department of Justice and Social Insurance of districts, cities and towns in the province.

Delegates are trained on how to connect and interconnect data. Photo: Hoai Thu

Regarding the benefits of this, Mr. Nguyen Cong Hoan - Deputy Director of the Department of Justice said that it will contribute to shortening the time for birth registration and issuance of health insurance cards for children under 6 years old. The procedures are connected and interconnected between the Ministry of Justice's shared registration and household registration management information system and the health insurance card issuance system of the Vietnam Social Security.

The connection is through the NGSP axis (vertical connection in the e-Government architecture), allowing the People's Committees at the commune level and the district-level justice department to send birth registration data of children under 6 years old to the Social Security agency to issue cards for the children. At the same time, this system also helps to closely coordinate in handling problems related to data connection, helping to ensure the rights of children under 6 years old.

The conference discussed topics on data submission procedures, health insurance card issuance procedures for children under 6 years old and answered related questions. Photo: Hoai Thu

The data connection is secured, birth registration data is received from the electronic birth registration system of the Ministry of Justice according to the provisions of law and instructions of the Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Information and Communications on ensuring security, information safety and protection of personal privacy.

The issuance of health insurance cards for children under 6 years old is carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Civil Status, the Law on Social Insurance, the Law on Health Insurance and the provisions of the law on protection of state secrets, and is only used in the field of management of issuing health insurance cards for children under 6 years old.

Data connection model diagram. Photo: Hoai Thu

At the conference, through the topics, the delegates listened to the authorities give specific instructions on the content of the data submission process, the process of issuing health insurance cards for children under 6 years old and answered related issues.

The conference also noted that from March 1, 2020, birth registration data will be transferred to the Social Security agency for 100% of children's birth registration records. Only birth registration data of children under 6 years old born from February 17, 2020 and not yet transferred to the Social Security agency to issue health insurance cards will be transferred.

The implementation of data interconnection will help shorten the time to issue health insurance cards for children under 6 years old from no more than 5 days to 24 hours.